‘Radical’ Renewable Transition the Key to Fighting Energy, Climate Crises
“Investing in new fossil fuel infrastructure will only lock in uneconomic practices, perpetuate existing risks, and increase the threats of climate change,” warned the head of IRENA.
Half of US adults were exposed to harmful lead levels as kids, study finds
Researcher calls findings ‘infuriating’ as team finds significant impact on cognitive development.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/07/lead-exposure-us-children-cognitive
“The Road to Clean Air” is a national report by the American Lung Association highlighting the potential for major public health benefits of widespread electrification of the transportation sector.
https://www.lung.org/getmedia/99cc945c-47f2-4ba9-ba59-14c311ca332a/electric-vehicle-report.pdf
How to clean solar panels without water.
https://news.mit.edu/2022/solar-panels-dust-magnets-0311
Rapid Growth of Wind and Solar Could Help Limit Warming to 1.5 degrees C
https://e360.yale.edu/digest/growth-of-wind-and-solar-on-pace-to-limit-warming-to-1-5-degrees-c
Nuclear energy push is not powered by sense
Readers fail to see the logic behind the government’s drive to go for the nuclear option to generate electricity
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/mar/23/nuclear-energy-push-is-not-powered-by-sense
How Climate Change Is Disrupting the Global Supply Chain.
https://e360.yale.edu/features/how-climate-change-is-disrupting-the-global-supply-chain
Fuelling a climate of uncertainty in a time of war – David Suzuki
https://davidsuzuki.org/story/fuelling-a-climate-of-uncertainty-in-a-time-of-war/
A community in Mexico reforests its land against the advance of illegal logging.
How Soil Can Save Our Planet; SXSW panel
https://schedule.sxsw.com/2022/events/PP119890
Amazon rainforest is losing resilience: new evidence from satellite data analysis
Paying a proper price for milk: What dairy cows deserve.
Greta Thunberg to publish a ‘go-to source’ book on the climate crisis
The Climate Book will include contributions from scientist Katharine Hayhoe, economist Thomas Piketty and novelist Margaret Atwood
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/mar/31/greta-thunberg-the-climate-book-crisis
Nature prefers symmetry and simplicity
https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2022-03-31-nature-prefers-symmetry-and-simplicity
In Puerto Rico, a marathon effort builds to restore mangroves and dunes
Our climate solutions are failing – and Big Oil’s fingerprints are all over them
For the first time, a IPCC report has acknowledged the role of misinformation. But it still doesn’t name the culprits
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/mar/07/climate-solutions-big-oil-ipcc-report
Soil Proof: The Plan to Quantify Regenerative Agriculture
With the 1,000 Farm Initiative, Jonathan Lundgren will spend the next 10 years studying the potential to draw carbon into the soil and bring life back to farm fields.
https://civileats.com/2022/03/07/soil-proof-quantify-regenerative-agriculture-soil-carbon-health/
‘They’re cooking them alive’: calls to ban ‘cruel’ killing methods on US farms
Use of heat, steam and suffocating foam to slaughter sick animals is condemned as bird flu epidemic threatens poultry stocks
We need Nature-POSITIVE Solutions to address the climate crisis
“Nature-Based Solutions” and “Natural Climate Solutions” leave too much room for greenwashing
https://ensia.com/voices/nature-positive-solutions-climate-crisis/
‘I don’t know how we’ll survive’: the farmers facing ruin in Maine’s ‘forever chemicals’ crisis
Maine faces a crisis from PFAS-contaminated produce, which is causing farms to close and farmers to face the loss of their livelihoods
In Rio de Janeiro, a forest slowly returns to life, one species at a time
A Regenerative Grazing Revolution Is Taking Root in the Mid-Atlantic
Farmers are scaling up the practice in Maryland, Pennsylvania, and beyond—and it could simultaneously help clean up the Chesapeake Bay, mitigate climate change, and save small family farms.
New Campaign Aims to Teach Cannabis Users Benefits of Regenerative Farming
While the herb is heralded as a natural solution for pain, anxiety and other ailments, conventional growing practices across the industry are far from earth friendly.
Researchers turn to drones for that big-picture view of the forest canopy
The United States Is Exceptional
Just Not in the Ways Any of Us Should Want
https://tomdispatch.com/the-united-states-is-exceptional/
A regional approach is essential for high-quality soil carbon credits and durable climate benefits.
Edible Extinction: Why We Need to Revive Global Food Diversity.
https://e360.yale.edu/features/a-look-inside-the-global-movement-to-revive-food-diversity
A Regenerative Grazing Revolution Is Taking Root in the Mid-Atlantic
Farmers are scaling up the practice in Maryland, Pennsylvania, and beyond—and it could simultaneously help clean up the Chesapeake Bay, mitigate climate change, and save small family farms.
Agroecology: farming for change
Scotland’s farmers and crofters are taking the initiative by adapting their farming methods in ways which will improve soil health and biodiversity and reduce inputs.
https://www.scotsman.com/country-and-farming/agroecology-farming-for-change-3627813
Know Thy Farmer.
In 1989, Robert Rodale penned the Seven Tendencies Towards Regeneration, the founding
principles for what is now a burgeoning movement called regenerative agriculture.
https://foodtank.com/news/2022/03/know-thy-farmer/
Climate-Induced Melting of Arctic Ice Threatens the Reemergence of Toxic Chemicals
Climate change and lithium mining negatively influence flamingos.
Visible ocean plastics just the tip of the iceberg.
https://www.kyushu-u.ac.jp/en/researches/view/226/
Recycling revelations: Study calls for “super cleaning” investment amid rPET boom
Climate shelters in schools.
https://www.uoc.edu/portal/en/news/actualitat/2022/072-climate-shelters-schools.html
How cattle ranchers in Brazil could help reduce carbon emissions.
Eastern Antarctica sees record temperatures 70 degrees above normal.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2022/03/18/antarctica-heat-wave-climate-change/
From teak farms to agroforestry: Panama tests reforestation strategies.
Common houseplants can improve air quality indoors.
A New California Law Will Create a Lot More Compost—but Will it Make it to Farmland?
A lack of uniform rules and the state’s past missteps could keep farmers from getting access to ‘brown gold’—and the many climate and farm benefits it offers.