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Dam Battles Converge on Cambodia’s 3S Rivers

Circle of Blue

Construction began in 2014. In a 2009 report he authored for the Rivers Coalition in Cambodia, an NGO alliance, Baird predicted the dam “would result in increased poverty and malnutrition over a wide area in Cambodia.”

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Arctic Sea Ice Reaches its 2021 Minimum

Ocean Conservancy

Since 2007, only 2009, 2013 and 2014 had more ice at the end of the melt season. One way to do that is to tell the Coast Guard to lead the way on reducing greenhouse gas emissions from ship traffic at the International Maritime Organization and to better prepare for climate-related changes here at home.

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Lisa Baiton: Big Oil’s Climate Misinformation Maestro

Enviromental Defense

For years CAPP has paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to boost advertising on Facebook , including ads that explicitly urged people to oppose limits on greenhouse gas emissions from the oil and gas industry.

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Degradation of coastal regions in the Pacific Islands

Our Environment

Ideally, the best way to save these islands is to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions. Increased levels of greenhouse gases from human industry and agriculture are the root cause of the erosion occurring within the Pacific Islands. Pacific Climate Change’ accessed 28 February 2021, [link]. [3] 3] Gombos, M., 4] Houghton, J.,

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Using Clouds to Fight Climate Change

HumanNature

Scientists used satellite data of ship tracks and climate models to estimate that, globally, changes in low-level clouds due to human-caused (anthropogenic) pollution has a cooling effect that is equivalent to about 25-33% of the anthropogenic warming caused by greenhouse gases , or approximately 1 Watt of energy per square meter.

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Explainer: China launches first national soil survey in 40 years

A Greener Life

million km2 and its result were published in a report in 2014. By 2009, a study by Chinese scientists found that cadmium was going into China’s topsoil at around 0.004mg/kg per year. Soil can both be a source of greenhouse gas emissions, by releasing carbon dioxide and methane, or it can fix organic carbon. of polluted sites.

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A new climate litigation claim in Brazil raises the pressure for increased climate action and protection of the Amazon rainforest

Law Columbia

Brazil’s National Policy on Climate Change ( NPCC and subsequent regulation ) was adopted in 2009 based on Brazil’s international commitments with the UNFCCC. In 2014, leaders made a similar pledge in the New York Declaration on Forests that yielded few results. Omissions from the Brazilian government on climate policy.