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Cattle and Climate Change: Putting Sustainability in Perspective

HumanNature

Beginning with the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) release of the report Livestocks Long Shadow in 2006, the totality of the contribution of cattle to livelihoods, food security, and ecosystem services has been questioned when contrasted with their contribution to greenhouse gas emissions and the environmental equilibrium.

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Profs. William Boyd and Alex Wang Join Prof. Ted Parson in Emmett Institute Faculty Leadership

Legal Planet

Both are leading scholars in their fields, exceptional classroom educators, and leaders of public interest initiatives that are shaping climate change and environmental law and policy in California, the U.S., Like Professors Boyd and Wang, Ted Parson shares a commitment to education, research, and public service.

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PA-Based Evangelical Environmental Network Joins Businesses, Communities, Nonprofit Groups In The Trillion Trees Community

PA Environment Daily

Deforestation and forest degradation are responsible for 15% of climate-warming greenhouse gas emissions. In our work with the Trillion Trees Platform, EEN pledges to educate and mobilize our evangelical community on the need to reforest our nation and the world. ENN is based in New Freedom, York County.

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National Fish & Wildlife Foundation Announces $23.8 Million In Small Watershed Grants To Support Chesapeake Bay Watershed Restoration Efforts

PA Environment Daily

Project will mitigate flooding and restore a degraded stream, enhance recreation and provide education on water resources and climate resilience.

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Guest Commentary: Indonesian Human Rights Commission’s first human rights complaint on the impacts of climate change

Law Columbia

Most of Indonesia’s greenhouse gas emissions come from the Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF) and energy sectors. From 2000 to 2015, Indonesia lost an average of 498,000 hectares of forest annually, making it the world’s second-largest driver of deforestation after Brazil.

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Frontiers Planet Prize: The breakthrough science that could preserve our planet

A Greener Life

Human activity has already led us to breach six of our nine planetary boundaries through increased agricultural run-off, accelerated biodiversity loss, surging greenhouse gas emissions and more. The sustainable solution improves public health, supports farmers, restores ecosystems and reduces deforestation across Africa.

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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. Due to mass deforestation in the industrial era, they were driven out of the lowland habitats and into the highlands of China. Evelyn did not take this work upon himself.