Submissions from e360.yale.edu

• When Guatemala created a major reserve 30 years ago, environmentalists complained that too much land was entrusted to local people and not converted to parks. Now, the parks have been overrun by ranches linked to drug traffickers, while the community-run lands are well preserved.

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  Published 22nd Jun 2020
• One Billion People Will Suffer From “Unliveable” Heat Within 50 years, Study Finds. In a worst-case scenario of accelerating emissions, areas currently home to a third of the world’s population will be as hot as the hottest parts of the Sahara within 50 years (xp from r/worldpolitics2)

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  Published 21st Jun 2020
• How International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) is selling out the world’s largest tuna

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  Published 16th Jun 2020
• Why Nuclear Power Must Be Part of the Energy Solution

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  Published 16th Jun 2020
• Nearly 15,000 Miles of New Roads Will Be Built in Tiger Habitat by 2050, Study Finds

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  Published 1st May 2020
• More than 100,000 miles of U.S. rivers and streams are polluted by nitrogen and phosphorus, much of it from agricultural runoff. In Pennsylvania, an innovative program is showing farmers how to plant cash crops in buffer zones to help stabilize stream banks and clean up waterways.

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  Published 31st Mar 2020
• Markets are emerging to pay farmers to store more carbon in the soil by using improved agricultural practices. But flows of greenhouse gases into and out of soil are complex, and some scientists are questioning whether these efforts will actually help slow global warming.

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  Published 31st Mar 2020
• Ecopsychology: How Immersion in Nature Benefits Your Health

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  Published 6th Mar 2020
• Salvation or Pipe Dream? A Movement Grows to Protect Up to Half the Planet

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  Published 4th Mar 2020
• Native Species or Invasive? The Distinction Blurs as the World Warms

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  Published 28th Jan 2020
• Shuttering of U.S. Coal Plants Saved More than 26,000 Lives Over the Past Decade, Study Finds

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  Published 10th Jan 2020
• Wild Roots: On a Vermont Farm, Renewal for a Man and His Land

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  Published 7th Jan 2020
• With Tigers Near Extinction, A Last-Ditch Strategy Emerges

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  Published 30th Dec 2019
• The Global Price Tag for 100 Percent Renewable Energy: $73 Trillion. — but the expense will pay for itself in under seven years. The study also found that the shift to a zero-carbon global economy would create 28.6 million more full-time jobs. “There’s really no downside to making this transition."

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  Published 23rd Dec 2019
• Why China’s Renewable Energy Transition Is Losing Momentum

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  Published 16th Oct 2019
• Solar panels on farmland have huge electricity-generating potential

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  Published 16th Aug 2019
• A nitrogen-fixing maize grown in an indigenous region of Mexico has the ability to fertilize itself, recent research shows. Now, as a global company and U.S. scientists work to replicate this trait in other corn varieties, will the villages where the maize originated share fairly in the profits?

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  Published 16th Jul 2019
• Electricity Demand Will Soar as Households Try to Cope With Hotter Temperatures

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  Published 27th Jun 2019
• U.S. Forests Are Being Devastated to Supply Biomass Energy Industry, Report Finds

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  Published 20th Jun 2019
• A Major U.S. Utility Is Closing Its Coal-Fired Power Plants a Decade Early

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  Published 23rd May 2019
• Coastal Recovery: Bringing a Damaged Wetland Back to Life (Delaware)

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  Published 12th May 2019
• The Toll of Tourism: Can Southeast Asia Save Its Prized Natural Areas?

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  Published 18th Apr 2019
• Fire-Induced Storms: A New Danger from the Rise in Wildfires

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  Published 25th Feb 2019
• Sparing vs Sharing: The Great Debate Over How to Protect Nature

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  Published 5th Feb 2019
• Bali proposes a tourist tax to clear up plastic pollution.

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  Published 28th Jan 2019
• 10 States Now Get At Least 20 Percent of Their Electricity from Solar and Wind

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  Published 30th Oct 2018
• Lessons Learned from Centuries of Indigenous Forest Management

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  Published 27th Sep 2018
• In the Heart of the Corn Belt, an Uphill Battle for Clean Water

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  Published 27th Sep 2018
• Why We Must Save the Endangered Species Act from the Trump Administration

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  Published 20th Sep 2018
• Is the Global Era of Massive Infrastructure Projects Coming to an End?

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  Published 11th Jul 2018
• Basement Preservationists: Can Hobbyists Save Rare Fish from Extinction?

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  Published 3rd Jul 2018
• Coyote Carnage: The Gruesome Truth about Wildlife Killing Contests

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  Published 22nd May 2018
• With a Green Makeover, Philadelphia Is Tackling Its Stormwater Problem

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  Published 29th Mar 2018
• For Endangered Florida Tree, How Far to Go to Save a Species?

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  Published 28th Mar 2018
• Why It’s Time to Stop Punishing Our Soils with Fertilizers

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  Published 20th Mar 2018
• Soil as Carbon Storehouse: New Weapon in Climate Fight? (2014 article, but relevant now as ever)

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  Published 16th Mar 2018
• How Climate Activists Failed to Make Clear the Problem with Natural Gas. The climate movement’s biggest failure has been its inability to successfully make the case that natural gas is not a clean replacement. As gas has boomed, U.S. emissions of methane have increased dramatically.

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  Published 15th Mar 2018
• Fishing Fleets Operate Across 55 Percent of the World's Oceans

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  Published 23rd Feb 2018
• In New Park, China Creates a Refuge for the Imperiled Siberian Tiger

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  Published 2nd Feb 2018
• Can Deepwater Aquaculture Avoid the Pitfalls of Coastal Fish Farms?

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  Published 28th Jan 2018
• Cougars Officially Declared Extinct in Eastern U.S., Removed from Endangered Species List

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  Published 24th Jan 2018
• Good News: Britain has been shifting away from coal at stunning speed

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  Published 15th Dec 2017
• As Oceans Warm, the World’s Kelp Forests Begin to Disappear

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  Published 24th Nov 2017
• As Oceans Warm, the World’s Kelp Forests Begin to Disappear

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  Published 20th Nov 2017
• Urban-Based Evolution: Species Are Rapidly Adapting to City Habitats

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  Published 5th Nov 2017