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An encroaching desert intensifies Nigeria’s farmer-herder crisis

Circle of Blue

Indeed, while climate variability and moisture losses on a global level are a major source of concern, human activities, such as deforestation, overgrazing, cropland expansion and unchecked population growth, are making an already worrisome situation even worse. Though a 2017 senate probe revealed that ?530 530 million ($1.2

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February 2020 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

The court noted that the administrative record currently documented the Corps’ decision to reissue NWP 12 in 2017. Lawsuit Filed Challenging Solar Power Facility in California. In 2017 Mexico’s Energy Regulatory Commission modified a fuel rule to allow a maximum of 10% ethanol in gasoline sales, up from 5.8%.

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