Circle of Blue
AUGUST 22, 2022
Despite promising adaptation strategies, sea level rise is projected to drown tens of thousands of acres of farmland within the century. Atlantic sea levels are rising three to four times faster than the global ocean average. Saltwater intrusion on Chalmers’ rice paddies is forcing him to look for land elsewhere.
Union of Concerned Scientists
AUGUST 22, 2023
He is now serving as a subject matter expert — so despite Mr. Bettencourt’s public advocacy for limited government, he must know he’s promoting a federal government program. The costs of increased risks from natural hazards—wildfires, floods and sea level rise— are driving insurers away. We can make a difference.
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A Greener Life
NOVEMBER 7, 2022
The G20 group of nations provided nearly US$200 billion in support of fossil fuels in 2021, despite the worsening impacts of the climate crisis and their pledge in 2009 to phase out “inefficient” subsidies. She cautioned that the figures were likely an underestimate since they are based on self-reporting by G20 governments to the OECD.
A Greener Life
AUGUST 11, 2021
Citizens and government officials resorted to drastic measures this year to prepare for the annual dry season in Vietnam’s Mekong delta. As debate rages over the causes of and solutions to the drought, the government is building large reservoirs to deal with the increasingly dry delta. Rice-first policy. Resolution 120.
Law Columbia
JUNE 6, 2023
However, detection and attribution methods can also be used to quantify the relationship between a specific GHG contribution and specific consequences of climate change, such as temperature and sea level rise. direct temperature stress, ocean acidification, sea level rise, extreme events, and alterations to food chains).
A Greener Life
OCTOBER 21, 2021
For almost three decades, world governments have met nearly every year to forge a global response to the climate emergency. There are also question marks over the commitment of the new Japanese government. Poor countries were promised at the Copenhagen Cop in 2009 that they would receive $100bn a year by 2020. What is COP26?
Frontiers
MARCH 24, 2023
Through high school and college, I continued to spend my summers farming and eventually started my own mixed-vegetable operation, which I ran between 2009 and 2019. Yes, there are ecological factors at play, but human governance, or lack of governance, creates a stage for degradation. The work was very rewarding.
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