Despite pledges of reform, the world’s leading supermarket and fast-food companies are doing little to address the environmental and human rights abuses associated with beef production.
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Why the Market for ‘Blue Carbon’ Credits May Be Poised to Take Off
Off the shores of Virginia, vast meadows of seagrass sway in the shallow waters. Over the past two decades, conservation scientists have spread more than 70 million seeds in the bays there, restoring 3,600 hectares (9,000 acres) of an ecosystem devastated by disease in the 1930s.
A Fierce Fire Season in Nepal
After an unusually dry winter, forest fires have raged throughout the mountainous country.
From Smoky Skies to a Green Horizon: Scientists Convert Fire-Risk Wood into Biofuel
Teams from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and Sandia National Laboratories have collaborated to develop a streamlined and efficient process for converting woody plant matter like forest overgrowth and agricultural waste – material that is currently burned either intentionally or unintentionally – into liquid biofuel. Their research was published recently in the journal ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering.
NASA-Built Instrument Will Help to Spot Greenhouse Gas Super-Emitters
The tool will help people, including resource managers and other officials, to address increasing concentrations of methane and carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
Satellite Imagery Key to Powering Google Earth
One of the most comprehensive pictures of our changing planet is now available to the public.
