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New Year's Resolutions? Slim your carbon footprint by a tonne in 2021
Climate campaign urges people to take action to reduce their emissions next year, using an online tool to track progress against Paris Agreement goals to curb global warming.
How to Reduce Your Carbon Footprint
Climate change can be overwhelming. the science is complex, and when it comes to future impacts, there are still a lot of unknowns. While real solutions will require action on a global scale, there are choices you can make in your day-to-day life to lessen your personal impact on the environment. This guide will walk you through some of them.
Why You Should Grow a Lawn for Bees
If your landscape goal is to have the perfect lawn, who is it for? Yourself? Your neighbors? If the answer is both, perhaps you should expand your definition of neighbors and rise to a different challenge: Try growing a perfect law for bees.
‘It’s happening, it’s now,’ says U.S. government report on climate change
November 23, 2018
On Friday, the federal government released its most dramatic report yet on the effects of climate change. According to scientists, the country is already experiencing serious consequences from rising global temperatures, including more frequent and severe storms, fires and flooding. John Yang talks to Michael Oppenheimer, professor of geosciences and international affairs at Princeton University.
Earth at risk of heading towards 'hothouse Earth' state
Date: August 6, 2018Source: Stockholm Resilience CentreSummary: An international team of scientists is showing that even if the carbon emission reductions called for in the Paris Agreement are met, there is a risk of Earth entering what the scientists call 'hothouse Earth' conditions.
Pollinators need you. You need pollinators.
Without the actions of pollinators, agricultural economies, our food supply, and surrounding landscapes would collapse.