Energy and Environment: Biden wants to make federal government carbon neutral by 2050
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The study found that soil fertility on previously deforested land can return in less than a decade. But that doesn't give people a "license to kill," said one author.
Look at any map of electrical vehicle charging stations in the United States, and in most of the big cities, what is immediately apparent are big blank spaces.
At 12 years old, Alhaji Siraj Bah was living on the streets. A decade later, his business in Sierra Leone employs nearly three dozen people as they work to create an alternative to wood-based charcoal.
Numerous conservation and animal protection groups are also offering a combined $26,000 reward for information leading to a conviction in the poisonings.
Slalom the North Atlantic right whale, survivor of multiple deadly fishing net entanglements, gave birth. But can mother and calf survive dangerous, human-infested waters?
"When you just blame everything on climate change then you take all the agency away from local decision-makers to actually deal with the disasters," one of the researchers said.
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