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Logging large trees can boost timber industry profitability. The 21-inch rule, a 1995 Eastside Screens regulation that prevented the timber industry from logging trees with diameters greater than 21 inches at breast height in eastern Oregon and...
by JaredKukura
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on Tue Feb 20, 2024 at 11:15 AM PST
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This old mouse is worried. We need help. Life is on the brink of collapse. The natural systems that support life on Earth are failing, and the cause of their breakdown is human meddling. Humans are meddlers by nature, and as long as humanity exists, it...
by Kat Ignatz
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on Sun Jan 14, 2024 at 03:00 AM PST
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The spotlight is a weekly, categorized compilation of links and excerpts from environmentally related posts at Daily Kos. Any posts included in the collection do not necessarily indicate my agreement with or endorsement of them. Because of the...
by Meteor Blades
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on Sun Oct 29, 2023 at 04:51 PM PDT
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The latest edition of an annual report was published earlier this month by the Forest Declaration Assessment, which tracks pledges of forest conservation made by countries and private companies. The researchers found that 16.3 million acres of forest...
by Meteor Blades
47 comments
on Sun Oct 29, 2023 at 08:00 AM PDT
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Three weeks ago, President Joe Biden took the action many climate activists had been pushing for a long time—forming an American Climate Corps. The idea is to put tens of thousands of young people to work on climate-friendly projects like installing...
by Meteor Blades
72 comments
on Sun Oct 15, 2023 at 09:00 AM PDT
with 198 Recommends
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You can make a difference to the hurt being caused by climate chaos and the great extinction event, in your town or your city! �How? �Reuse, repurpose, and recycle this information. �
This is the ...
by birches
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on Wed Jul 19, 2023 at 10:00 AM PDT
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Earth's largest River in the sky is changing the climate in Brazil with a bonus Honest Government Ad We need a bit of levity to take the edge off the disturbing climate news that has finally begun to get some attention from the media after seven decades of ignoring the blinking code-red lights. It ...
by Pakalolo
51 comments
on Wed Jul 05, 2023 at 07:33 AM PDT
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“The present observed global warming is close to 0.4 degrees C [0.72 F], relative to ‘climatology,’ which is defined as the thirty-year (1951–1980) mean. A warming of 0.4 degrees C is three times larger than the standard deviation of annual mean...
by Meteor Blades
109 comments
on Thu Jun 01, 2023 at 04:35 PM PDT
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A few weeks ago, BloombergNEF released an analysis projecting that by 2030 a phenomenal increase of 600 gigawatts of solar and wind energy capacity could be added in the United States. Enough to provide electricity to 100 million Americans. For...
by Meteor Blades
63 comments
on Thu May 25, 2023 at 04:57 PM PDT
with 165 Recommends
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Organizing progressives Did: To do: Solidify talking points with Cindy Organizing for Democratic Environmental Caucus of Florida Did: Called all the DECF county presidents to invite them to DECF RTCW Meeting 1 To do: Organize meeting 2 with Tiff, Judy,...
by Rachel Brown
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on Thu May 18, 2023 at 08:29 PM PDT
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Last week, the oil giant Shell posted a first quarter profit of $9.65 billion, up from $9.1 billion in the first quarter of 2022. It put $6 billion of that into stock buybacks and shareholder dividends. This wasn’t the highest ever quarterly profit for...
by Meteor Blades
32 comments
on Thu May 11, 2023 at 04:03 PM PDT
with 142 Recommends
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A new study published in Nature found that the deforestation of the Amazon is directly linked to the melting of W. Antarctica’s ice and reduced snowfall in the Tibetan Plateau. One of the many fears of climatologists is that when one critical component...
by Pakalolo
25 comments
on Fri Mar 10, 2023 at 06:30 AM PST
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Link to Part 1 is here, and here’s the latest Typhoon Noru update from the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA): Winds are down to 140 km/h, making Noru a strong Category 1 storm, but gusts are still...
by FleekDoggPPLH
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on Sun Sep 25, 2022 at 11:27 AM PDT
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I realize that all people want to do is talk about Donald Trump (myself included), but sometimes other issues are worth knowing about. One of them is the habitability of Ukraine after Putin has been defeated and brought to justice for crimes against...
by Pakalolo
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on Tue Aug 30, 2022 at 06:07 AM PDT
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"We are not living in normal times, and every American knows it." Daniel Sherrell writing in The Guardian Nestled between the tundra of the Arctic and the mixed deciduous and conifer forests to the south is the largest biome on earth. The boreal...
by Pakalolo
70 comments
on Wed Sep 14, 2022 at 07:44 AM PDT
with 191 Recommends
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Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest hit a horrific 27,800 square kilometers in 2003. But from there it fell to 4,600 square kilometers by 2012, with ups and downs over the next six years, but never again rising above 7,900 squre kilometers....
by Meteor Blades
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on Fri Jul 22, 2022 at 06:02 AM PDT
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An interesting article came across my feed, and I thought I would share it as it is fantastic; if you are a nature nerd like me anyway. Beyond the steady thumping of our hearts, rhythm is omnipresent in our lives. As babies and children, we were rocked...
by Pakalolo
38 comments
on Sat May 28, 2022 at 07:03 AM PDT
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Editor’s Note: While climate is the focus of this diary, the impacts of deforestation and ecosystem destruction on the people of the forest and their livelihood are all important. Introduction: Deforestation of the Amazon from land use Deforestation of...
by billlaurelMD
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on Mon Mar 21, 2022 at 06:39 PM PDT
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Our diet is more involved than just weight watching. There are four dimensions to it: Personal health Community health Environmental health Moral health Personal Health A good example of healthful diet is Tom Brady. His superstar performance over the...
by RonAnthony
86 comments
on Sat Feb 12, 2022 at 02:57 PM PST
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One of the largest economies has fired a shot across the bow of logging, mining, and the agricultural industry that primarily destroys the rain-making ability of the biodiverse homes of species that have evolved in the vast lush and hot environments...
by Pakalolo
36 comments
on Thu Dec 02, 2021 at 07:14 AM PST
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