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Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss EarthTalk Compared to other fruits and vegetables that are grown closer to home, eating avocados—most of which are flown in from Central America—can be a drag on your carbon footprint. Furthermore, they require a lot of water, fertilizers and pesticides to grow, further complicating...
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Roddy Scheer y Doug Moss EarthTalk En resumen, no tan bueno. Global Forest Watch, un proyecto del Instituto de Recursos Mundiales (WRI) sin fines de lucro que utiliza datos satelitales para rastrear la pérdida global de bosques, descubrió que el mundo perdió unas 3.8 millones de hectáreas de bosque...
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Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss EarthTalk In short, not so good. Global Forest Watch, a project of the non-profit World Resources Institute (WRI) which uses satellite data to track global forest loss, found that the world lost some 3.8 million hectares of tropical primary forest (defined as forests of...
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HEALDSBURG, Calif. — This week a long-awaited bill to cut in half the maintenance backlog at national parks is expected to get a vote in Congress. The Great American Outdoors Act would take $6 billion in royalties from offshore oil and gas drilling over five years to fix federal sites —...
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HEALDSBURG, Calif. – Esta semana se espera que un proyecto de ley tan esperado para reducir a la mitad la acumulación de mantenimiento en los parques nacionales se vote en el Congreso. La Ley Great American Outdoors tomaría $ 6 mil millones en regalías de la perforación de petróleo...
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Latino conservation groups say battling the pandemic goes hand in hand with fighting climate change, because poor air quality exacerbated by climate change makes people more vulnerable to COVID-19. Juanita Mora, CEO of the Chicago Allergy Center, said Latino communities are disproportionately affected by both the pandemic...
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SACRAMENTO, California – Grupos de conservación latinos dicen que combatir la pandemia va de la mano con la lucha contra el cambio climático, porque la mala calidad del aire exacerbada por el cambio climático hace que las personas sean más vulnerables a COVID-19. Juanita Mora, CEO del Chicago Allergy...
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Roddy Scheer y Doug Moss EarthTalk Nadie está contento con los estragos que ha causado el Coronavirus, pero un lado positivo ha sido la reducción en las emisiones de dióxido de carbono (CO2) que ocurrieron. Según las investigaciones de la Universidad de Anglia en el Reino Unido, las emisiones...
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Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss EarthTalk No one is happy about the havoc the Coronavirus has wreaked, but one bright side has been the reduction in carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions that occurred. Global CO2 emissions during April 2020—while the world was largely locked down—were 17 percent lower than the...