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Just Transition Litigation in Latin America: Sabin Center launches new report

Law Columbia

Based on the analysis, the report: Proposes a definition of the concepts of just transition and just transition litigation through the different dimensions and affected persons that play a role in how cases may play out. The scope of transformations needed is profound, wide-ranging, and likely to affect many aspects of everyday life.

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The American Lawn and De-Colonizing the Permaculture Movement

Vermont Law

8) Instead of a constructive improvement on a common way of life, traditional knowledge has sometimes been appropriated for capital and used to justify buying more high-value land. (9) The permaculture movement bears many loose definitions and associations. LAWN STARTER, [link] (last visited Mar.

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Scanning the cosmos for signs of alien technology

Physics World

Some 80 years later, astronomer Percival Lowell – founder of the Lowell Observatory at Flagstaff , Arizona, and proponent of the idea that astronomers had spotted canals on Mars – suggested digging our own canals in the Sahara desert. Analogous to technosignatures, these are the signs of life on alien worlds, intelligent or otherwise.

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Geology: Examining the Planet’s Physical Processes

Environmental Science

Some geologists work with astronomers and astrophysicists to understand the geology of terrestrial bodies such as our Moon and our near rocky planetary neighbors - Mercury, Venus, Mars, asteroids, comets and since 2016, the planetoid Pluto. Geology also has industrial applications. History of Geology. In Antiquity. He was only half right.

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A physicist’s experience of the mental-health system

Physics World

I have used these emotions as fuel to ignite every last neuronal connection that remains from a life devoted to learning. I felt emptier and emptier as the colour of my emotions started evaporating from my life. My PhD life. This article is the result of the powerlessness I have felt within the mental-health system.

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Deserts as Ecosystems and Why They Need Protecting

Environmental Science

Life is more abundant here, the soil less acidic, and tend to be arid due to adjacent topography such as mountain ranges or lakes and waterway networks that draw off most of the precipitation that they would otherwise experience (4). There are four broad types of desert: coastal, cold, hot & dry, and semi-arid. Coastal Deserts.

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The Chemical Compound—December 2021

Arnold Porter

EPA Said Codification of “Parent Company” Definition Would Improve TRI Reporting Efficiency. This quarterly newsletter provides essential updates on litigation, regulatory, legislative, and other notable developments involving chemicals of concern to business. Table of Contents. » Litigation. » Federal Developments.

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