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Master Watershed Steward Dean Neely Takes A Hands-On Approach To Conservation In Monroe County

PA Environment Daily

He volunteers for lots of hands-on work, public education and outreach. The boardwalk is used as an educational tool for students and the public. He noted that a big emphasis for him is working to decrease the rapid pace of deforestation for warehouses and solar farms.

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The Animal Agriculture Industry Undermines Climate Action

Legal Planet

This is primarily due to deforestation and other land-use changes caused by converting wild areas into farmland to grow crops for livestock. million multi-year gift from the Institute for Feed Education and Research (IFeeder), the nonprofit arm of the AFIA. The CLEAR center was established in 2019 with a $2.9

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Carbon-offset schemes aren't prepared for forests to burn

New Scientist

70251 Topics: ecology / deforestation / carbon emissions Advertisement Sign up to our weekly newsletter Receive a weekly dose of discovery in your inbox! “If you want to guarantee permanence over 100 years, you need to ensure your buffer is big enough to deal with a lot of climate change,” says Anderegg.

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KRUNK Movement Goes Global: A Cross-Cultural Music Collaboration Creates Suubi A Global Anthem For Change To Amplify Sustainability, Hope, And The Arts Linking Allegheny County And Uganda

PA Environment Daily

This collaboration builds on The KRUNK Movements 2023 initiative with the Green Building Alliance , which integrated music into environmental education. A Song That Transcends Borders Suubi was brought to life through the passion and dedication of young artists, producers, and educators from both Pittsburgh and Uganda.

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Cattle and Climate Change: Putting Sustainability in Perspective

HumanNature

Another concern regarding the environmental impact of cattle is the contribution to deforestation and habitat destruction primarily in tropical regions, like the Amazon rainforest, where land has historically been converted from forested land to pastures for grazing (Margulis, 2004; Gibbs et al., Margulis, S. ” World Bank. McGowan, J.

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The Fast Fashion Backlash Is Fueling a Sustainability Revolution

Scientific American

“It was supercommon knowledge,” explains Sara Idacavage , a fashion historian and sustainable-fashion educator who is currently getting her Ph.D. Up until the 1960s, mending worn-out clothes was the societal norm. at the University of Georgia. “People are still interested in fashion trends.

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Forests with robust animal populations store four times as much carbon

New Scientist

Read more Deforestation is partly to blame for Amazon's worst-ever drought Advertisement Animals contain just a tiny fraction of the carbon stored in the environments where they live. We’re losing the regrowth potential of tropical forests.”