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Cultural Heritage is a Human Right. Climate Change is Fast Eroding It.

Union of Concerned Scientists

In 2016, the Human Rights Council declared that damage to cultural heritage, both tangible and intangible, of any people, constitutes damage to the cultural heritage of humanity as a whole. Flooding, coastal erosion, wildfires, thawing permafrost, and extreme weather events are causing unprecedented loss and damage of places and customs.

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Tropical cyclones in Asia could double in destructive power under a warming climate, according to new research

Frontiers

In a new paper published in Frontiers in Earth Science , researchers investigated how tropical cyclones’ destructive power has changed over the eastern and southeastern regions of Asia between 1979 (hereafter) and 2016. To do so, they first analyzed historical tropical cyclone data from the last four decades (between 1979 and 2016).

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DEP: Shale Gas Drilling Resulted In 54 Incidents Of New Wells Interfering With Abandoned Oil & Gas Wells, Water Wells Or Other Shale Gas Wells In Last 8 Years

PA Environment Daily

Since 2016, DEP has required shale gas operators to submit an Area of Review analysis as part of the permitting process for unconventional wells to help identify abandoned wells, water wells and conflicts with other shale gas wells and laterals before they happen. Frack-out” is also a term used for “communication” incidents.

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Nestlé faces US lawsuit for allegedly false advertising pet food as ‘natural’

Corp Watch

Humanitarianism, Capitalism, and the Moral Economy of the Nestlé Boycott by Tehila Sasson (2016) Rigged: Supermarket Shelves for Sale by the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) (2016) Nutrition Scientists on the Take from Big Food: Has the American Society for Nutrition lost all credibility? Pakistan: Poisoning The Well?

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Nestlé, Mars among chocolate makers criticised in cocoa-sourcing report

Corp Watch

Humanitarianism, Capitalism, and the Moral Economy of the Nestlé Boycott by Tehila Sasson (2016) Rigged: Supermarket Shelves for Sale by the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) (2016) Nutrition Scientists on the Take from Big Food: Has the American Society for Nutrition lost all credibility? Pakistan: Poisoning The Well?

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Where’d the wood go? The importance of wood in rivers and how we can learn to appreciate it

HumanNature

Geomorphology 51 , 61–80 (2003). Water Resour Res 52 , 3910–3929 (2016). Progress in Physical Geography: Earth and Environment 40 , 598–615 (2016). . & Sear, D. The influence of vegetation and organic debris on flood-plain sediment dynamics: case study of a low-order stream in the New Forest, England. Fetherston, K.

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‘Science is a measure of our ignorance: the more we know, the more we realize how little we know’

Frontiers

He has published three books and more than 100 papers in physics since 2003. Since 2016, he has also been doing research in behaviural and clinical psychology, in which he has a degree, an MSc and three published papers.

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