Category: climate
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Why do World Heritage forests🌳release more carbon than they absorb?
The first ever scientific assessment of the amounts of greenhouse gases emitted from and absorbed by forests in UNESCO World Heritage sites has found that forests in World Heritage sites play a vital role in mitigating climate change by absorbing 190 million tons of CO2 from the atmosphere each year. However, ten forests released more…
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Hemp can clean contaminated soil
Hemp can clean contaminated soil and there has been countless articles to extol the various attributes of the hemp plant. This is going to be another one with more detail. Not only can hemp fiber can be used to create anything from clothing and paper to concrete bricks, but hemp plants also possess the remarkable…
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From Globalization To A Planetary Mindset
“What remains, and is irreducible, is the planetary. Obviously, the global ecosystem, including climate and pandemics that cross borders, qualify as planetary. The challenges here are recognized as common and convergent for all.”