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Low-Carbon Diet: The Easy Way To Fight Global Warming

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Feeding ourselves causes a third of all CO2 emissions, so adopting a low-carbon diet is one way each and every one of us can fight global warming.

Regenerative Agriculture, Credit: NRCS Oregon, FlickrCC

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Regenerative Agriculture: There’s No Tilling How Much CO2 We Can Save

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Regenerative Agriculture (RA) describes farming and grazing practices that help reverse climate change by rebuilding the organic matter in soil and restoring degraded soil biodiversity.

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Is Grass-Fed Beef Actually Better for the Environment?

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Allan Savory points to the carbon sequestration benefits of grazing cattle on grasslands as an environmental justification for raising livestock…

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Carbon Pawprints: How Our Dogs & Cats Contribute to Global Warming

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Unfortunately, our beloved dogs and cats do produce shockingly high amounts of greenhouse gases that contribute to global warming…

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Climate Geoengineering: Now More Than Ever?

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Supersized space mirrors, salt spraying ships & sparkle blasting balloons—these are just a few geoengineering fixes to global warming…

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How long have we known about human-caused global warming?

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ExxonMobil knew as early as 1977 that our enthusiastic burning of fossil fuels was leading to global warming — and since then has spent upwards of $30 million to promote so-called climate denial…

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What’s the difference between a carbon tax and “cap-and-trade” system for reducing greenhouse gas emissions?

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Dear EarthTalk: What’s the difference between a carbon tax and “cap-and-trade” system for reducing greenhouse gas emissions? —Marina Brown, New York, NY Most of us can agree that reducing greenhouse gas emissions is a must given the rapid warming of the planet; just how to […]

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Climate Change Fixers’ Bag of Tricks

Sarah "Steve" Mosko cap & trade, cap and trade, carbon tax, climate change, CO2, Congress, EU, European Union, GHG, global warming, Government, greenhouse gas, greenhouse gases, Kyoto Protocol, pollution, Regulation, Subsidies

Halting global warming is the chief environmental challenge of our time. While heat-trapping carbon dioxide (CO2) is not the only greenhouse gas (GHG), it’s the most abundant and longest-lived in the atmosphere and contributes the most to global warming. In March, atmospheric CO2 content reached a new high of 400 parts per million, already past […]

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A Climate Change Fix Both the Left and Right Can Embrace

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Studies abound linking the increase in extreme weather-related catastrophes in recent decades, like droughts, floods, hurricanes and blizzards, to global climate change. Some climate experts stress the urgency of addressing the problem now, predicting cascading economic and political, social and environmental upheavals worldwide if action is delayed. Since the dawn of the industrial revolution, the […]