These industries are responsible for 13-18% of global greenhouse gas emissions, but about 77% of them make no disclosure about emissions from their operations.
Even a huge increase in forest fires would produce changes in oxygen that are difficult to measure. There’s enough oxygen in the air to last for millions of years.
Earth is seeing an unprecedented loss of species, which some ecologists are calling a sixth mass extinction. More recently, 571 plant species were declared extinct.
As Convention of International Trade of Endangered Species of Flora and Fauna meets in Geneva, India to urge it to delist timber as exotic & endangered species.
The World Resources Institute's Aqueduct Water Risk Atlas has ranked India 13 on its list of "extremely highly" water stressed countries, citing its population.
Researchers have warned that loss of metal-rich rocks could cause changes that will last over geologic timescales & impact food chains beyond the deep seafloor.
China patiently invested capital, skill and technology in coal gasification. Unlike it, we won’t move from words to action. As crude prices decline, we lose interest.
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