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40-Year Taklamakan Greening Project Bears Fruit
An experiment in western China over the past four decades shows that it is possible to tame the expansion of desert lands with greenery, and, in the process, pull excess carbon dioxide out of the sky. Taklamakan Desert location. (PeterHermesFurian/iStock/Getty) The sprawling greening project along the edges of China’s Taklamakan Desert is creating a visible […]
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Carbon Capture, too Little too Late?
Will carbon capture technology bail society out of the latest version of greenhouse gas emissions, CO2 suddenly doubling its rate of increase when compared to the past decade, in breathtaking fashion, thus overheating the ocean and the Arctic and Antarctica and hammering Greenland? The relationship between greenhouse gas emissions and carbon capture technology is best […]
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Fixing the Climate Crisis (Part 2)
• Read Part 1 here How to Fix the Climate Crisis is a multifaceted affair; a National Geographic November 2023 article, “The Race to Save the Planet, Can Technology Help Fix the Climate Crisis?” that this two-part series is based upon focuses on the nexus of trouble, which is excessive levels of greenhouse gases, specifically […]
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From Net Zero to Glyphosate: Agritech’s Greenwashed Corporate Power Grab
Today, in the mainstream narrative, there is much talk of a ‘food transition’. Big agribusiness and ‘philanthropic’ foundations position themselves as the saviours of humanity due to their much- promoted plans to ‘feed the world’ with ‘precision’ farming’, ‘data-driven’ agriculture and ‘sustainable’ production. These are the very institutions responsible for the social, ecological and […]
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Supremes Declare War on Wetlands
Image credit: Boreal Conservation The Supreme Court is effectively axing a major component of the Clean Water Act, rolling back 50 years of wetland protection in a declaration of war against nature by changing a word in the text of the Clean Water Act. Seldom, if ever, will repercussions of a Supreme Court decision be […]
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Forests, Fires, and Biomass
A huge climate/environmental justice issue is looming over Sonoma County and the rest of California. A hungry monster is currently chomping up our trees and forests and burning them for power generation, converting them into fuel pellets for shipping overseas to European and Asian markets for burning, or turning them into biofuels for aviation. Exported […]
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