A Greener Life

DECEMBER 18, 2024

By Anders Lorenzen The impacts of climate change, such as droughts, intensive and large-scale industrial farming , land degradation, chemical overuse and surging demand for meat to be farmed are combined reasons for the declining health and quality of the soil the world over. This is then exacerbated by climate change.

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Real Climate

JULY 31, 2025

Indeed, it’s clear that the vast majority of the increase is due to climate change itself (warming the atmosphere and increasing the saturation vapor pressure). Thus even if direct WV emissions were reduced to zero, that would be counteracted by a mere 0.05ºC change in global temperature.

Atmosphere

Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Mining critical minerals can lead to human rights violations, deforestation, loss of biodiversity, and soil degradation. By advancing a circular economy, it strengthens supply chain security, supports energy resilience, and enhances the EUs strategic autonomy. The current battery supply chain faces several pressing challenges.

Regulations

New Scientist

JULY 4, 2025

Read more Our plans to tackle climate change with carbon storage don't add up A forest-based carbon-offset project involves protecting or replanting forests to generate carbon credits, which can then be sold to companies or individuals to offset their greenhouse gas emissions. “For

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 18, 2025

Inspired by the United Nations' 17 Sustainable Development Goals , students used hip-hop, jazz, and spoken word to tackle pressing environmental issues such as climate change, deforestation, and social sustainability.

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

By Shekhar Pathak Climate change is an extremely complex and difficult issue. The Court acknowledged Shell’s significant duty of care in mitigating climate change, given its century-long dominance in the fossil fuel market. The challenge of proving causation in climate-related cases is evident globally.

Fossil Fuels

Law Columbia

JULY 15, 2025

The IACtHR described the ongoing climate emergency as an existential threat to the future of humankind (paras. 289, 302), and identifies the right to a healthy environment “as the principal right affected by climate change” (para.

Climate Change

A Greener Life

JANUARY 19, 2025

By Anders Lorenzen A report produced by World Weather Attribution (WWA) and Climate Central finds that 2024 was quite a year for extreme weather events fuelled by climate change. WWA studied 16 floods; out of those, 15 had been driven by climate change-amplified rainfall. Image credit: WWA.

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Legal Planet

MAY 20, 2025

climate conference descends on the small Brazilian rainforest city of Belm in November 2025, it will be tempting to focus on the drama and disunity among major nations. Only 21 countries had even submitted their updated plans for managing climate change by the 2025 deadline required under the Paris Agreement. Acre, Brazil.

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ESA

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

Looking at a map of deforestation around the world, one notes that forests around field stations are either preserved or are being improved much more than around any other place. This creates a positive feedback loop: as the area becomes more studied, it becomes more valuable to science.

Conservation

New Scientist

JULY 29, 2025

This shows a linkage between animal biodiversity loss and a process that exacerbates climate change,” says Evan Fricke at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 2500951122 Topics: climate change / biodiversity / carbon Advertisement Sign up to our weekly newsletter Receive a weekly dose of discovery in your inbox!

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Physics World

JUNE 3, 2025

Digging holes To combat climate change, there is often much discussion about how to remove carbon from the atmosphere. Reforestation – Conversion to forest of land that was previously deforested. The report defines each technique as follows: Afforestation – Conversion to forest of land that was previously not forest.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 19, 2025

coal, gas, and oil) without considering how to contribute to a global economic transition toward more climate-friendly sources of power (such as solar, wind, hydro, geothermal, and nuclear). World Scientists Warning of a Climate Emergency 2022, 72 BioScience 1149 (2022), [link]. This means that the leaders of U.S. Ripple, et al.,

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Inside Climate News

OCTOBER 30, 2024

A decade of attribution research shows that “burning fossil fuels causes climate change and climate change causes death and destruction.”

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Legal Planet

APRIL 23, 2025

One such survey involved 130,000 people in 125 countries, which account for 96% of the worlds carbon emissions, and was published in the journal Nature Climate Change. The project is a global initiative of Covering Climate Now intended to spur collaboration globally.

Earth Day

A Greener Life

JUNE 6, 2025

On the day he became president again, Donald Trump signed an executive order to take the US out of the Paris Agreement on climate change. Analysis: Coal extraction in Indonesia is driving deforestation Priority coal decommissioning projects under Indonesia’s JETP programme include the 660-megawatt Cirebon-1 plant and Pelabuhan Ratu.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 11, 2021

According to the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report published Monday, Southeast Asia coastal zones are among the world’s most climate vulnerable regions. Graphic courtesy of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Carl Ganter / Circle of Blue.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 13, 2023

Climate litigation is gaining momentum in Brazil as a tool to protect the Amazon rainforest from illegal deforestation. The timing of these climate disputes is not accidental. The movement follows a worldwide upsurge in climate change-related cases, which have more than doubled since 2015. In Future Generations v.

Climate Change

Real Climate

APRIL 6, 2023

The summary for policymakers of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) sixth synthesis report was released on March 20th (available online as a PDF ). There is a recording of the IPCC Press Conference – Climate Change 2023: Synthesis Report for those who are interested in watching an awkward release of the report.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Climate Change Grips Trout Streams Across the Nation: How Anglers Are Responding Across the country, anglers have watched as droughts, floods, and high temperatures batter the rivers they depend on. The issue has begun changing minds about climate change among recreational fishermen, a demographic that leans politically conservative.

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Yale E360

DECEMBER 10, 2021

In recent decades, cattle grazing has accounted for around two-thirds of deforestation in Brazil, with ranchers clearing forest to create pastures. Halting climate change demands not only stopping deforestation, but reversing it, for instance, by turning pastures back into woodlands.

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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 the end of this century, the region’s annual rainfall is expected to drop by up to 30 percent due to climate change. By Laura Gersony, Circle of Blue — October 4, 2021.

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Environmental News Bits

JULY 28, 2022

To fight climate change and biodiversity loss globally, Environment MEPs want only deforestation-free products to be allowed on the EU market.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 17, 2022

For more than a decade of leadership and innovation, member states and provinces of the Governors’ Climate and Forests (GCF) Task Force have been developing strategies, programs, investment plans, and new legal structures to address tropical deforestation, embark on a low-emissions development path, and benefit their populations and the climate.

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Cool Green Science

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

New science estimates that heat increases caused by deforestation are killing more than 100 people per year in Berau, Indonesia. The post Deforestation Is Killing Workers in Tropical Countries appeared first on Cool Green Science.

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Legal Planet

MAY 5, 2022

Mexico is also highly vulnerable to climate change. What’s the state of climate policy in Mexico? The climate issue has to be placed in the broader context of Mexico’s situation. Because of its geography, Mexico is vulnerable to climate impacts.

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Scientific American

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

The Amazon rain forest is in the middle of a record-breaking drought because of deforestation, El Niño and climate change

Climate Change

Inside Climate News

JANUARY 12, 2022

They haven’t made commitments to stop deforestation related to beef, soy, palm oil and timber, and many of those that have aren’t following through.

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Circle of Blue

JULY 1, 2021

“Climate is going to challenge our economies and the health of all people who live here.” – Cathy Whitlock, a Montana State University paleoclimatologist. A newly released climate assessment found that climate change, especially water scarcity, is affecting the Greater Yellowstone ecosystem. 8800 RESIDENTS.

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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.

2022

Inside Climate News

JUNE 14, 2023

Stand.earth alleges that Cargill, the nation’s largest privately-held company and the world’s largest agribusiness company , has failed to keep pledges on eliminating deforestation from its supply chains.

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Inhabitant

OCTOBER 1, 2021

If melting polar ice caps and a deforested Amazon seem too far away to be real, many consumers may soon get an up-close and personal taste of climate change in their coffee cups. Coffee bean prices are about to spike.

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Inside Climate News

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

A new report finds that up to 85 percent of threatened animal and plant species have had their habitat damaged by mining, agriculture or logging.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 2, 2021

The Acre, Moa, Juruá, and Japiim rivers, which succumbed earlier this year to increased flooding linked to climate change and extreme rain events, are keystone socio-environmental features. The expansion of BR-364 would contribute to the surging rate of Amazon deforestation, which nears its highest point in over a decade. .

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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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Legal Planet

JULY 25, 2023

We give lots of lip service describing climate change as an emergency or existential threat. According to the Climate Emergency Declaration Organization, 2336 jurisdictions around the world have declared it to be an emergency, but we are not really acting like it. Next time: ending deforestation.

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Scientific American

JANUARY 5, 2022

As trees are cleared, surrounding areas heat up, triggering heavy rainstorms. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com.

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