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‘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.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/03/29/radical-renewable-transition-key-fighting-energy-climate-crises

 

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.

https://news.mongabay.com/2022/03/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 

https://www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/latest-news/amazon-rainforest-is-losing-resilience-new-evidence-from-satellite-data-analysis

 

Paying a proper price for milk: What dairy cows deserve.

https://www.resilience.org/stories/2022-02-28/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

https://news.mongabay.com/2022/03/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

Amy Westervelt

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

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/mar/08/theyre-cooking-them-alive-calls-to-ban-cruel-killing-methods-on-us-farms

 

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

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/mar/22/i-dont-know-how-well-survive-the-farmers-facing-ruin-in-americas-forever-chemicals-crisis

 

In Rio de Janeiro, a forest slowly returns to life, one species at a time

https://news.mongabay.com/2022/03/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.

https://civileats.com/2022/03/30/a-regenerative-grazing-revolution-is-taking-root-in-the-mid-atlantic/

 

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.

https://sustainablebrands.com/read/marketing-and-comms/new-campaign-aims-to-teach-cannabis-users-benefits-of-regenerative-farming

 

Researchers turn to drones for that big-picture view of the forest canopy

https://news.mongabay.com/2022/03/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

By Aviva Chomsky

https://tomdispatch.com/the-united-states-is-exceptional/

 

A regional approach is essential for high-quality soil carbon credits and durable climate benefits.

https://www.woodwellclimate.org/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.

https://civileats.com/2022/03/30/a-regenerative-grazing-revolution-is-taking-root-in-the-mid-atlantic/

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

https://beyondpesticides.org/dailynewsblog/2022/03/climate-induced-melting-of-arctic-ice-threatens-the-reemergence-of-toxic-chemicals/

 

Climate change and lithium mining negatively influence flamingos.

https://sc.edu/study/colleges_schools/artsandsciences/about/news/2022/climatechange_lithiummining.php

 

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

https://www.packaginginsights.com/news/recycling-revelations-study-calls-for-super-cleaning-investment-amid-rpet-bottle-contamination-concerns.html

 

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.

https://www.colorado.edu/today/2022/03/17/how-cattle-ranchers-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.

https://news.mongabay.com/2022/03/from-teak-farms-to-agroforestry-panama-tests-reforestation-strategies/

 

Common houseplants can improve air quality indoors.

https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/latest/2022/03/common-houseplants-can-improve-air-quality-indoors.aspx

 

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.

https://civileats.com/2022/03/02/california-compost-law-food-waste-produce-farmers-brown-gold-soil-health-climate-agriculture/