Union of Concerned Scientists
JANUARY 10, 2024
Biodiesel and renewable diesel are closely related fuels made from the same oils and fats, which remain scarce, expensive, and linked to deforestation and food price spikes. Production capacity grew by 400 percent between 2019 and 2022 and based on announced and planned projects, it could double again by the end of 2024.
Real Climate
AUGUST 13, 2021
This is a pretty clear illustration of how sea level starts to rise slowly; but in the long run, sea-level rise caused by fossil-fuel burning and deforestation in our generation could literally go off the chart and inundate many coastal cities and wipe entire island nations off the map. But first things first. Observed Past Rise.
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HumanNature
APRIL 17, 2023
Hydrol Process 20 , 183–196 (2006). Geomorphology 80 , 295–309 (2006). Earth Surf Process Landf 44 , 624–640 (2019). The fields of fluvial geomorphology, riparian ecology, stream biology, and river restoration have recognized the value of wood in rivers for decades. Ground Water 46 , 671–687 (2008). Siegel, D. & Bauer, R.
Our Environment
MAY 21, 2021
For example, the rate of deforestation in indigenous territories has increased to 71% since the Brazilian president Jair Bolsanro was elected [4]. In 2019 over two thirds of environmental activists murdered were from Latin America [5]. Reference list: (1) Steiger Carlos (2006), Modern Beef Production in Brazil and Argentina, Vol.
Our Environment
MAY 21, 2021
Brazil’s Amazon: Deforestation ‘surges to 12-year high’ Retrieved from [link]. Oehlert, A. Gaston, C. African biomass burning is a substantial source of phosphorus deposition to the Amazon, Tropical Atlantic Ocean, and Southern Ocean. Shukman, D. O’Shea, N. Retrieved from [link]. Retrieved from [link]. Kaufman, Y.
Environmental Progress
AUGUST 8, 2020
In 2019, after my article for Forbes upon which the Amazon chapter in Apocalypse Never is based, Nepstad complained to Mongabay , an activist web site, and again to Kasprak, that I didn’t write about the risk of deforestation leading to “savanification,” which is the transformation of rainforest into a savanna. The question is how.
Environmental Progress
FEBRUARY 28, 2021
Globally, the rate of reforestation is catching up to a slowing rate of deforestation. [11] In 2019 the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate change warned that warming of 1.5 In 2019, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published a special report on food and agriculture. percent drop in pasture land since 2000. [13]
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