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One day in 2022, a man in southern India took a walk outside of his village to work on his tea garden. Having called ahead to ensure there were no reports of elephant movements along his route, his wife recently told The Washington Post, he set out, only to come across an elephant anyway. Sri […]
The results are in on the world’s first climate change progress report: Drastic improvement is needed — and fast. The report, released Friday, is the technical synthesis report from the Paris Agreement’s Global Stocktake process, which is designed to evaluate the global response to the climate crisis every five years. The report will inform critical […]
Across the globe, climate change, pollution and overfishing are endangering our oceans. But not all efforts to protect them are created equal. Some allow carefully managed fishing, while others restrict all human activity. In nearly all cases, the benefits to nature are clear: Marine protected areas — designated by governments to maintain healthy oceans — […]
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Please share my lesson using your social media platforms. Use the links above. Student FREE Bookstore (CLICK HERE) The news: This week, the East Coast of the United States is grappling with something that other places around the world are all too familiar with: wildfire smoke. Fires raging across eastern Canada are choking the skies […]
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Please share my lesson using your social media platforms. Use the links above. Student FREE Bookstore (CLICK HERE) CLICK HERE TO GO TO AMAZON.COM.BR For two decades, Conservation International has worked with Starbucks to support responsible coffee farming, protect biodiversity and reduce the coffee industry’s impacts on climate through ethical sourcing standards known as the […]
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This summer, dangerous heatwaves have shattered records around the world. The extreme temperatures would be “virtually impossible” without human-caused climate change, according to an ever-growing body of research. As countries struggle to respond to the sweltering weather, a new study provides the largest and most comprehensive review yet of how to stop deforestation — a […]
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Please share my lesson using your social media platforms. Use the links above. Student FREE Bookstore (CLICK HERE) https://www.fiverr.com/s/YDrPkl The European Parliament on Wednesday agreed on legally binding targets to protect and restore nature in the European Union, CNN reported. The law will also require countries to restore 20 percent of their lands and […]
Please share my lesson using your social media platforms. Use the links above. Student FREE Bookstore (CLICK HERE) https://www.fiverr.com/s/YDrPkl Though news headlines about the state of the planet may seem bleak, they don’t always capture the whole story. Around the world, the work of protecting nature and the climate is happening in the field […]
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Warming temperatures could bring different species of animals — and their diseases — into closer proximity. The story: According to a new study, we can add another chilling entry to the list of looming climate impacts: Thousands of viruses are expected to jump from one species of mammal to another as temperatures continue to warm […]
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Please share my lesson using your social media platforms. Use the links above. Student FREE Bookstore (CLICK HERE) https://www.fiverr.com/s/YDrPkl The World’s Oldest Tree In eastern California, a Great Basin bristlecone pine (Pinus longaeva) known as Methuselah has long been considered Earth’s oldest living thing. According to tree-ring data, Methuselah is 4,853 years old — […]
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Please share my lesson using your social media platforms. Use the links above. Student FREE Bookstore (CLICK HERE) https://www.fiverr.com/s/YDrPkl Underneath the ground, intricate fungal networks are working together with plants to absorb massive amounts of carbon — equivalent to more than a third of the world’s annual fossil fuel emissions, according to a new […]
IN THE NEWS THIS WEEK: U.S. East Coast, smoky skies latest sign of a changing climate Please share my lesson using your social media platforms. Use the links above. Student FREE Bookstore (CLICK HERE) https://www.fiverr.com/s/YDrPkl INTRODUCTION: The news: This week, the East Coast of the United States is grappling with something that other places […]
Protected forests are important to our survival Please share my lesson using your social media platforms. Use the links above. Student FREE Bookstore (CLICK HERE) https://www.fiverr.com/s/YDrPkl Protected forests keep significantly more climate-warming carbon out of the atmosphere than unprotected forests, according to a new study. The research, published in the journal Nature Communications, illustrates just […]
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Student FREE Bookstore (CLICK HERE) Five experts tell us how hope motivates their work INTROCUCTION: Yes, it’s easy to feel despondent. The planet is overheating and nature is declining at unprecedented rates. But environmental chaos is not inevitable. And doom and gloom never did any good. Increasingly, thought leaders are urging optimism — and […]