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COP30: Twelve environmental facts about Brazil in 2025

A Greener Life

2020 for example, the Amazon saw its highest deforestation rate in over a decade. Political controversies and deforestation policies Brazil has made progress in reducing deforestation, with a 30.6% million hectares destroyed between 2001 and 2020. decrease compared to the previous year.

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What Is FEMA’s Disaster Relief Fund? What You Should Know, Why Costs Keep Rising and What We Can Do About It

Union of Concerned Scientists

It’s perhaps not surprising then that Congress has provided the majority of DRF funding through the often last minute, politically fraught supplemental appropriations. According to FEMA, since 2001, the agency has implemented INF restrictions 9 times, including last year.

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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. In 2020, farmers and livestock operations used 187 billion gallons of water, double the amount in 2009. Is the state prepared for more?

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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. billion in 2016 to $11.6

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PA Environmental Defense Foundation Files Lawsuit To Stop Northcentral Regional ATV Trail Connector Project As Violation Of Public Trust Responsibilities

PA Environment Daily

DCNR and the Bureau of Forestry were forced to develop this pilot program by the 2020 Fiscal Code amendment. Only two of the five Forests Districts identified in the 2020 legislation are currently part of the program. “It On November 23, 2020, the General Assembly amended the Fiscal Code again to direct DCNR to “.evaluate

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The EU’s challenge with renewable energy expansion: What is the way forward?

Environmental Europe

It has agreed to address climate change under the Paris Agreement , and put forward increasingly ambitious policy targets for 2020, 2030 and 2050. The EU’s 2020 Renewable Energy Directive (2009/28/EC) requires that the Member States must collectively achieve 20% of their energy consumption from renewables by 2020.

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Setting the scene for a quantum marketplace: where quantum business is up to and how it might unfold

Physics World

The company has announced a new quantum chip called Pegasus, that would be used to make devices with more than 5000 qubits, originally scheduled for 2020 – but which has not yet materialized. Lu also worries about how easy it is to distort the potential of quantum computing.