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Soil May Not Be Able to Keep Storing Carbon Dioxide as Emissions Increase
There’s a trope in the climate denial world that rising carbon dioxide levels are good, actually, because it’s helping plants grow. Putting aside that saying that ignores all the deleterious effects on life on Earth, there’s also another issue with the tired talking point.
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The Intense, Lobster-Fuelled Fight Over America’s First Floating Wind Farm
There’s a rumble brewing out in the ocean, and it could forecast some troubles ahead for renewable energy. It involves some of Maine’s small fishermen, a high-profile wind project in the state, and an aggressive showdown with a research vessel earlier this week.
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Warren Buffet and Other Deadbeats’ Climate Commitments Are Missing the Mark
What’s really in a big corporation’s pledges to cut emissions, anyway? For a lot of those promises, not much, a new investor-led report finds. An exhaustive benchmark analysis of the climate pledges of nearly 160 global companies released Monday digs into the specifics of some of these carbon-cutting and/or net-zero promises, finding that no company…
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The Last Unknown Takes Viewers to Some of the Most Remote Islands on Earth
Photographer and filmmaker Ian Shive is known for documenting remote locations, and it doesn’t get much more remote than the Aleutian Islands. The chain of 2,500 islands jut off the coast of mainland Alaska and form a 1,931 kilometre arc in the Bering Sea. They are one of the most inaccessible, wild places in the…