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Will renewable energy save us from climate change?

Global Green

Michael Moore’s last movie, Planet of the Humans , questions the reliability, affordability and sustainability of renewable energy. The thought-provoking film also highlights the renewables’ dependence on fossil fuels. How green are renewables? In the UK, the energy produced from biomass currently accounts for ca.

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Why You Should Care About The Latest IPCC Report | BreezoMeter

Breezometer

We’re already experiencing the impact of climate change across the world; now an update from the IPCC suggests weather extremes could become the norm in the near future. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the United Nations body for assessing the science related to climate change.

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It is the time for nature: World Environment Day 2020

Manning Law

As ecosystems and biodiversity fall to cities, agriculture, infrastructure, climate change and pollution, nature’s ability to provide food, oxygen, clean water and climate regulation plummets. Meanwhile, the climate emergency has not gone away. Ending fossil fuel subsidies and making renewable energy the future.

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Emergency?

Legal Planet

Wildfire in Canada , smoke in NYC , heat domes in Texas , massive heat in the Atlantic ocean are just some of this month’s news. We give lots of lip service describing climate change as an emergency or existential threat. But climate change is different. Next time: siting renewables and transmission.

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Environmental Law: Government and Public Policy Towards the Environment

Environmental Science

Acidification : Reducing the pH rating of a substance making it more acidic in nature, for example, increased carbon emissions lead to the oceans absorbing more of it, increasing acidification and damaging ecology such as coral bleaching. Climate change : The process by which the climate changes due to “forcings”.

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Conservation: History and Future

Environmental Science

Unlike many other works of botany from that age and later, Sylva highlighted the growing problem of deforestation in England. Energy Conservation. We live in an age of dwindling fossil fuels and inaction on renewable energy. That's one aspect of energy conservation - efficiency of the resource. Marine Conservation.

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Deserts as Ecosystems and Why They Need Protecting

Environmental Science

As well as preserving the deserts that we have, it is also dedicated to ensuring that human activity such as climate change, agricultural practices, intensive resource use and other activity does not create deserts in other landscapes, ecosystems and biomes. Yet eremology is also the study of how deserts are formed. Desert Resources.