Extraordinary new limits introduced to require municipal utilities to remove six PFAS compounds from drinking water.
From The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/14/epa-drinking-water-limits-pfas-forever-chemicals
From 1980 to 2009, farmers faced an ever-increasing chance of having to deal with a growing season that was too hot and dry for their crops, according to a new study from an international team led by researchers at Aalto University.
From Environmental News Network
https://www.enn.com/articles/72148-crop-yields-reduced-by-climate-extremes
Why should governments do all of the heavy lifting to arrest the steep decline of many ecosystems? Endangered species live on private land too – so why not give farmers and landholders incentives to look after them and restore habitat?
From: The Conversation
https://theconversation.com/would-a-nature-repair-market-really-work-evidence-suggests-its-highly-unlikely-199975
Not all pollution comes from people. When global temperatures increase by 4 degrees Celsius, harmful plant emissions and dust will also increase by as much as 14 percent, according to new UC Riverside research.
From: Environmental News Network
https://www.enn.com/articles/72059-breathing-is-going-to-get-tougher
Existing data are too biased to provide a reliable picture of the global average of local species richness trends. This is the conclusion of an international research team led by the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) and the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU).
From Phys,Org
https://phys.org/news/2023-02-biodiversity-globally-accurate-trends-unfeasible.html
Small isolated wetlands that are full for only part of the year are often the first to be removed for development or agriculture, but a new study shows that they can be twice as effective in protecting downstream lake or river ecosystems than if they were connected to them.
Source: Waterloo University
From Science Daily:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/02/230202112716.htm
A leading conservation research group found that 40% of animals and 34% of plants in the United States are at risk of extinction, while 41% of ecosystems are facing collapse.
From Reuters
Political and Indigenous leaders hope to replicate success of British Columbia’s Great Bear Rainforest conservation area.
From The Guardian
The Climate Leaders in Movement Action (CLIMA) Fund released a new body of evidence demonstrating the efficacy of grassroots climate justice movements in transforming the two largest polluting sectors globally: food and energy.
The report, Soil to Sky: Climate Solutions That Transform, connects the dots between specific stories of change and global impact, demonstrating how grassroots movements are already forging transitions from extractive agriculture and energy production to agroecological systems and equitable energy generation.
Download the report from the CLIMA Fund:
https://climasolutions.org/resource/soil-to-sky-climate-solutions-that-transform/
The folded leaf of an oak tree, faded yellow, dotted with dark spots. We pick up on the information contained in leaves almost subconsciously when strolling through the forest. But the researchers at UZH’s Remote Sensing Laboratories are taking this ability to the next level.
From Phys.Org
https://phys.org/news/2023-01-harnessing-biodiversity-characteristics.html