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2019-12-26

Statistic of the decade: The massive deforestation of the Amazon

Statistic of the decade: The massive deforestation of the Amazon Liberty Vittert 8.4 million soccer fields of land deforested in the Amazon over the past decade. That’s 24,000 square miles, or about 10.3 million American football fields.This statistic, while giving only a snapshot of the issue, provides insight into the dramatic change to this landscape […]

Article posted by Eugene Staffa / Articles, CACOR Climate, Economics, Natural Resources, Solutions / carbon capture and storage, Economics Leave a Comment

2018-08-17

Life’s catastrophe: An Angry Editorial

Ian Whyte, CACOR member expresses grave concern. The human enterprise is eradicating non-human life on Earth. The WWF’s Living Planet Report 2016 reveals that, worldwide, wildlife populations declined by 58% between 1970 (itself too late for a proper base year) and 2012, with the expectation that this decline will reach 67% by 2020 (WWF, 2016). In Canada, my home, the situation is similar: […]

Article posted by Art Hunter / Articles, CACOR Writers, Natural Resources / Biodiversity, climate change, Complexity, Sustainability, Threats, values, Wildlife conservation Leave a Comment

2017-11-17

What, Me Worry? Humans Are Blind to Imminent Environmental Collapse

Remember the 40 to 60 million bison that used to roam the great plains of North America? They — along with the millions of deer, pronghorns, wolves and lesser beasts that once animated prairie ecosystems — have been “competitively displaced,” their habitats taken over by a much greater biomass of humans, cattle, pigs and sheep. And not […]

Article posted by Art Hunter / Analysis, Articles, Global Warming, Natural Resources, Politics, Population, Public Policy Leave a Comment

2017-09-08

Wanted: shuttered coal plants to turn into giant batteries

In the last two years, 135 coal power plants in the US have shut down. Dozens more are due to be decommissioned. To Curtis VanWalleghem, CEO of the Canadian company Hydrostor, that sounds like a lot of batteries. Abandoned coal plants give Hydrostor cheap access to the industrial infrastructure, transmission lines, and water sources it […]

Article posted by Art Hunter / Articles, Energy, Natural Resources, Solutions, Technology, Water / Energy, Power Grid, Renewable energy Leave a Comment

2017-03-03

world wildlife collapsing

World wildlife falls by 58% in 40 years The Living Planet assessment, by the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) and WWF, suggests that if the trend continues that decline could reach two-thirds among vertebrates by 2020. The figures suggest that animals living in lakes, rivers and wetlands are suffering the biggest losses.  Human activity, including […]

Article posted by Zachary Jacobson / Climate, Natural Resources / climate change, global warming, Sustainability, Wildlife conservation Leave a Comment

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