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Environmental News Network -- Know Your Environment
Coffee, that savior of the underslept, comes with enormous environmental and social costs, from the loss of forest habitats as woodlands are converted to crops, to the economic precarity of small-scale farmers whose livelihoods depend on the whims of international markets.
Accumulating fuels and rising populations are contributing to California’s large, destructive fires.
Human activity and climate change are causing invasive non-native species to spread rapidly across the globe.
The U.S. Forest Service now has a powerful way to view near-real time fire detection from NASA satellite data that they can include in their hourly air quality forecasts.
Consuming sustainably sourced wild meat instead of domesticated livestock reduces greenhouse gas emissions and retains precious tropical forest systems, which in turn mitigates the effects of climate change.
Despite some weather-related difficulties, this year saw average pumpkin yields and quality, experts say.
