Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

For example, restoring trees along deforested riverbanks can shade the ecosystem and cool the river during extreme heat. The post What’s Up With Water – November 8, 2021 appeared first on Circle of Blue. Many such strategies were developed by Indigenous communities who have used them for centuries.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Second, it stands out because of who is issuing the demand – namely, leaders of states, provinces, and communities who are at the frontlines of the climate, biodiversity, and economic crises that compound current high levels of deforestation. The World Resources Institute (WRI) found that we lost 10% more tropical forest in 2022 than in 2021.

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Clean Energy Law

JANUARY 17, 2024

It is worth noting that the Eligibility List excludes renewable energy projects (with a few exceptions) and Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD/REDD+) projects or programmes in High Forest cover, Low Deforestation (HFLD) countries.

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New Scientist

APRIL 28, 2022

million hectares of tree cover, or 10 football pitches a minute, disappeared across primary tropical forests in 2021 Satellite data shows 3.75

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 13, 2022

A new study finds that deforestation is causing more intense storms along West Africa’s coast. A new study finds that storms are hitting coastal West Africa twice as frequently as 30 years ago, mainly due to deforestation. Urban growth and an increased demand for land has led to mass deforestation in major cities in West Africa.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 30, 2024

Global hunger and deforestation: Excessive consumption of bio-based diesel fuels has already contributed to the 2022 global food crisis , and is accelerating deforestation caused by increased soybean and palm oil cultivation around the world. percent or even 39 percent with a commensurate increase in costs for California drivers.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 1, 2021

The patrol group of Indigenous farmers, teachers, and hunters spend their time working with conservation officers to track deforestation and report their findings to government regulators. The post The Stream, December 1, 2021: New Testing Rule In U.S. IN RECENT WATER NEWS. In Case You Missed It: .

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Scientists attribute the drought’s severity to climate change, deforestation of the Amazon rainforest, and the La Niña weather pattern. By Laura Gersony, Circle of Blue — October 4, 2021. Reservoirs are dwindling, causing major deficits in hydroelectric power. Parched conditions have gripped Brazil for nearly a decade.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The BBC reports that data from Thames Water showed that so far, raw sewage has been released into the upper Thames for 50,000 hours in 2021. Climate experts say deforestation in the Amazon rainforest and the Cerrado savanna are key drivers of Brazil’s changing climate patterns. ON THE RADAR.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

DECEMBER 27, 2021

This vastly improved biologists’ understanding of the impacts of habitat fragmentation and helped spark global concern about deforestation in the Amazon. Working with INPA (Brazil’s National Institute for Research in Amazonia), Lovejoy conceived and launched the Minimum Critical Size of Ecosystems project in South America in 1978.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 2, 2021

29th of July was the day calculated as Earth Overshoot Day for 2021, the day which marks the date when humanity’s demand for ecological resources and services in a given year exceeds what Earth can regenerate in that year. decrease in global forest biocapacity due in large part to the spike in Amazon deforestation. By Anders Lorenzen.

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Environmental News Bits

APRIL 7, 2022

The timing of COP26, at the tail-end of 2021, means many of us have started 2022 with a renewed urgency around sustainability. Read the full story at The Manufacturer.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 11, 2021

By Laura Gersony, Circle of Blue — August 10, 2021. Other tipping points include the sudden transition of the Sahara Desert into a wet climate zone and the Amazon Rainforest losing its ability to retain water due to deforestation. With swift, drastic action, warming could still be limited to 1.5

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 21, 2021

On December 07, 2021, the Federal Regional Court of the Fourth Region (TRF4) – one of Brazil’s federal courts of appeal – decided what should be the competent jurisdiction to hear the case of IEA v. In July 2021, the Federal District Court of Curitiba issued an order rejecting jurisdiction and transferring the case to the Court of Amazonas.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

That makes the Academy of Natural Sciences’ description of five new species in 2021 all the more critical to understanding the natural world and inspiring everyone to care for it. Here’s an overview of the newly named species in 2021: BIRDS. The newly described Xingu Screech owl. Photo by Kleiton Silva. Photo by Gustavo Malacco.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 1, 2021

On October 26, 2021, Observatório do Clima (OC), a network of 71 civil society organizations, filed a class action at the federal court of Amazonas against the Environmental Ministry and Brazilian government ( Laboratório do Observatório do Clima v. This financial instrument is essential to controlling deforestation in Amazonia.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 10, 2021

By Christian Thorsberg, Circle of Blue — August 10, 2021. The Dayak-Bahau man had been arrested for protesting the mass deforestation of his ancestral lands, Borneo’s tropical rainforests, which account for six percent of the world’s biodiversity. Kalimantan, Borneo © Marc Veraat. On the Caribbean island of St.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 27, 2021

MW (between June 2016 and June 2021). The water crisis and the consequent rise in electricity prices in 2021 is not an isolated episode. The Cerrado and the Amazon currently suffer from high rates of deforestation , worrying rural producers. MW to 791.32 “The market is heated, with a very high demand. billion a year.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 17, 2023

During a marine heat wave in the Pacific Northwest in 2021, it is estimated that several billion marine beings died. Animals often struggle to cope with the heat, especially during multi-day heatwaves, or in urban spaces where the urban heat island effect and limited shade exacerbate its effects.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 3, 2024

Lakota People's Law Project | January 13, 2021 We stand arm in arm with our fellow global citizens who abstain from its lengthy list of products. Canada: No Water to Waste Council of Canadians | 2021 Blue Triton, formerly Nestlé, would have enough groundwater to fill as many as 14  billion  plastic bottles. 

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 3, 2024

Lakota People's Law Project | January 13, 2021 We stand arm in arm with our fellow global citizens who abstain from its lengthy list of products. Canada: No Water to Waste Council of Canadians | 2021 Blue Triton, formerly Nestlé, would have enough groundwater to fill as many as 14  billion  plastic bottles. 

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Law Columbia

APRIL 22, 2021

Most recently, in February 2021, the Innu Council of Ekuanitshit and the Minganie Regional County Municipality recognized the Canadian Magpie River’s legal rights of personhood through the adoption of twin resolutions — one resolution by the Innu and another resolution by the municipality. Province of Entre Ríos, et al. Pakistan : G.

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A Greener Life

DECEMBER 13, 2021

My daughter Sofie was born in April 2021, in the middle of the Coronavirus pandemic and in a decade in which climate change is increasingly high on the global agenda. By Anders Lorenzen.

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HumanNature

APRIL 16, 2024

Pedestrian fatalities vs Income level (Smart Growth America, 2021) In terms of social costs, the highways running through cities disconnected neighborhoods and made cars a necessity for most, if not all, Americans. Other highways displaced communities and caused gentrification and social isolation. have another dimension to be aware of.

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Edouard Stenger

JULY 11, 2023

Actually, to The Guardian , such noxious use of public money actually almost doubled in 2021. Countries have declared climate emergency for seven years now but keep on heavily subsidizing fossil fuels use. in fact, the covid pandemic saw a large increase of such subsidies.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 31, 2022

The spill occurred in November 2021 and affected drinking water on Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam. Such activities could include water pollution from illegal gold mining, deforestation, and drug cultivation. Health Problems from Fuel Spill on O’ahu. Most common were afflictions of the nervous system, gastrointestinal system, and skin.

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Real Climate

AUGUST 25, 2023

For the AMOC (and other climate tipping points ), the only action we can take to minimise the risk is to get out of fossil fuels and stop deforestation as fast as possible. The key point to me is: these different indicators provide rather consistent AMOC reconstructions, as we showed in Caesar et al.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Chelsea Gómez joined the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law in October 2021 and serves as a Graduate Research Assistant supporting research on City Focus Groups on Climate and Equity-based Policies. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Science and Policy from St. Edward’s University.

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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. Source: IPCC ( 2021 ) Figure 9.25.

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Greenbuilding Law

MARCH 3, 2024

And when the pleading describes that “as of 2021, the JBS Group’s estimated annual greenhouse gases were more than those of the entire country of Ireland” which ignores that one state attorney general is seeking to inject herself in the purchasing decisions of all American consumers buying the food produced by the company’s U.S.

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HumanNature

MARCH 16, 2021

Guest Post By Nathan Han, 2020-2021 Sustainability Leadership Fellow and Ph.D. The platform was built as a transparent tool to help keep tabs on illegal logging in the tropics and quickly detect encroachments by providing a user-friendly interface for GLAD deforestation alerts.

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Vermont Law

AUGUST 13, 2020

The Colombian youth plaintiffs argued before the Constitutional Court that record rapid deforestation in the Amazon occurred between 2015 and 2016. Further, Colombia had already lost forty percent of its Amazonian forest and that the Colombian government—despite knowing of the repercussions—failed to prevent the vast deforestation.

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 14, 2022

15, 2021, incident that harmed Mikaila and another farmer is just one in a larger pattern of growing hostilities between herders and farmers in this region. between 1984 and 2021, while the area experienced a 71.9% Land cover change in Yusufari from 1984 to 2021. Farmers recall their most recent poor rice harvests in 2021.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 16, 2021

The report stated unequivocally, for the first time, that climate change is occurring due to “human influence,” namely the burning of fossil fuels and deforestation. The post What’s Up With Water — August 16, 2021 appeared first on Circle of Blue. The report, while grim, does offer hope.

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HumanNature

APRIL 17, 2023

© 2021 Emily Iskin Art & Design. Sci Adv 7 , (2021). 2: Instream wood in the Hoh River, Washington, providing habitat for vegetation. The fields of fluvial geomorphology, riparian ecology, stream biology, and river restoration have recognized the value of wood in rivers for decades. Water Resour Res 58 , (2022). Wohl, E. &

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Physics World

JANUARY 19, 2022

Richard Branson also blasted off on a Virgin Galactic test flight in 2021. Sent up by universities, governments and start-ups, they do everything from monitoring deforestation to tracking radio-tagged endangered animals. But space tourism could soon be open to more than just billionaires.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 16, 2021

The majority of the cases have been filed by the Amazon Task Force (ATF), established in 2018 by federal public prosecutors to unite the offices working to combat illegal deforestation in Amazonia. Illegal deforestation in traditional land. Illegal deforestation in traditional land.

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