Replanting the Amazon could slow global warming. Here’s why it’s hard
Replanting the Amazon could help save the world’s climate. Here’s why it’s so hard to do Restoring decimated portions of Brazil’s rainforest has largely fallen to nonprofits. They’re battling illegal land-grabbers, tight budgets, botanical mysteries – and the ticking clock….
‘Don’t fool yourself’: billions more needed to protect tropical forests, warns new report
At least $130bn (£100bn) a year is needed to protect the most at-risk areas of tropical forest by the end of the decade, alongside reductions in beef and dairy consumption and government bans on deforestation, a thinktank has warned. From…
The food we eat and its impact on climate change – CBS News
How we grow food, consume it and waste it may play a big role in whether the world can avert a climate catastrophe, environmentalists and climate change analysts say. One big obstacle to changing the most damaging practices is that…
‘Rewilding’ Parts of the Planet Could Have Big Climate Benefits – InsideClimate News
Restoring populations of land and marine animals in targeted “rewilding” zones would speed up biological carbon pumps that remove carbon dioxide from the air and sequester the greenhouse gas where it doesn’t harm the climate, new research shows. An international…
Want to sequester carbon? Save wild animals – Grist
As the world increasingly turns toward natural climate solutions like reforestation and grassland restoration to sequester carbon, it may be overlooking a crucial ally: animals. Protecting existing populations and restoring others to their natural habitats often improves the natural capture…
Would You Give Up Red Meat To Avoid One Degree Of Global … – Cowboy State Daily
***For All Things Wyoming, Sign-Up For Our Daily Newsletter*** By Kevin Killough, State Energy ReporterKevin@CowboyStateDaily.com If people don’t give up meat, the planet will be 1 degree warmer in 80 years. That’s the conclusion of a new study published this…
SXSW: Can milk and meat save us from climate change? – KXAN.com
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Chile Wildfires and Drought in Argentina: South America’s Heat Wave Prompts Climate Change Worries – Foreign Policy
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Why Is Deforestation a Major Problem In Terms of Its Effect on Global Warming? – EARTH.ORG
Being one of the biggest environmental issues of the 21st century, countries are currently going out of their way to map out policies and seek collaborations to slow down the pace of global warming, after witnessing extreme droughts, heatwaves, and…
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