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COP30: Twelve environmental facts about Brazil in 2025

A Greener Life

Political controversies and deforestation policies Brazil has made progress in reducing deforestation, with a 30.6% million hectares destroyed between 2001 and 2020. Indigenous lands, though legally protected, continue to face threats from illegal activities, including a 495% increase in illegal mining from 2010 to 2020.

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As Drought Grips American West, Irrigation Becomes Selling Point for Michigan

Circle of Blue

Michigan counts nearly 11,000 agricultural wells, 3,800 of them installed from 2010 to 2020. Michigan now counts nearly 11,000 agricultural wells, 3,800 of them installed from 2010 to 2020. Michigan farmers irrigate with 187 billion gallons of groundwater a year. Is the state prepared for more? Carl Ganter / Circle of Blue.

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Lisa Baiton: Big Oil’s Climate Misinformation Maestro

Enviromental Defense

The fossil fuel lobby meddles with Canadian politics and inserts itself into international climate change politics and diplomacy. political and public support) for fossil fuels, but we can tell our elected officials not to fall for CAPP’s pro-oil propaganda and to instead prioritize climate action.

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Holiday hotspots for physicists

Physics World

When author and physicist Anil Ananthaswamy was writing his 2010 book The Edge of Physics: Dispatches from the Frontiers of Cosmology , he was in search of the most extreme places where physics is carried out. For thrill-seeking travellers, some of the most exciting labs and experiments are nestled in the most far-flung parts of the world.

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Testimony before the United States House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce 2021 Texas Grid Failure

Environmental Progress

Few people realize that Germany has actually increased its fossil fuel combustion capacity over the 20 years of its landmark renewable energy program from 2001 to the present. We can see the same impact of variable energies in Germany. It did so precisely in order to protect against the kinds of disasters that befell Texas and California.

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How a Federal Drought Relief Program Left Southern Oregon Parched—and Contributed to the Ongoing Groundwater Crisis in the West

Circle of Blue

In 2001, the Bureau of Reclamation (USBR), a federal agency that manages the agricultural water supply within the basin, began paying farmers to pump large amounts of groundwater out of the aquifers below. Since 2001, it has paid farmers to pump groundwater approximately two out of every three years.

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New California Legislation Would Be a Major Step Forward for Climate Disclosure

Law Columbia

Corporate and securities law – as well as companies and their leaders acting through lobbying and politics – also have major roles to play. [9] Hirsch, “Green Business and the Importance of Reflexive Law: What Michael Porter Didn’t Say,” 62 Administrative Law Rev iew 1063 (2010); John S. 46] The U.S. 39] 42 U.S.C.