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Some of the most jarring ways the United States will feel the impacts of climate change began to reveal themselves this year.

The U.S. saw a record-setting 25 billion-dollar natural disasters. Maui experienced the country’s deadliest wildfire in the last century. Phoenix suffered temperatures over 110 degrees Fahrenheit for 31 consecutive days. Vermont endured epic floods. Despite all this, the Biden administration reneged on its promise and approved the Willow oil project in Alaska.

But this year was also filled with news of encouraging, inspiring, and groundbreaking progress in the U.S., not least of which was its joining a global agreement to transition away from fossil fuels and pledging with its biggest rival, China, to accelerate renewables.

Reaching net-zero emissions by 2050 will require decarbonizing the nation’s energy production, transportation, homes and buildings, and industries. Here’s a …

Endangered Animal Stories: Short Story Books About Endangered Animals

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Endangered animal stories from Active Wild in paperback and on Kindle.

Read exciting short stories about endangered animals and discover interesting information about their lives & struggles…

Tales From The Brink: Complete Edition

Endangered species story book — Click here or on the image above to view *Tales From The Brink: Complete* at Amazon

Tales From The Brink: Complete Edition contains every story from Tales From The Brink and More Tales From The Brink in one book.

Tales From The Brink: Complete Edition is a must for young animal lovers, who will not only enjoy the exciting stories, but also gain insight into the lives of the species featured.

In Tales From The Brink: Complete, you’ll meet Darpan, a young tiger who encounters strange, talking apes deep in the forest; Budi, …

As salmon disappear, a battle over Alaska Native fishing rights heats up

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When salmon all but vanished from western Alaska in 2021, thousands of people in the region faced disaster. Rural families lost a critical food source. Commercial fisherfolk found themselves without a major stream of income. And Alaska Native children stopped learning how to catch, cut, dry, and smoke fish — a tradition passed down since the time of their ancestors.

Behind the scenes, the salmon shortage has also inflamed a long-simmering legal fight among Native stakeholders, the Biden administration, and the state over who gets to fish on Alaska’s vast federal lands.

At the heart of the dispute is a provision in a 1980 federal law called the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act, which gives rural Alaskans priority over urban residents to fish and hunt on federal lands. Most rural families are Indigenous, so the law is considered by …

Adaptation requires attuning to shifting temporal patterns

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Nature Climate Change, Published online: 27 December 2023; doi:10.1038/s41558-023-01899-8

Communal life is characterized by the shared timing of human and environmental events. Climate change is disrupting these timings, creating mismatches in these coordinated temporal patterns and requiring adaptive governance.
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Famous Volcanoes: List Of Volcanic Eruptions With Pictures & Facts

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A list of the world’s most famous volcanoes and volcanic eruptions, with locations, pictures and facts.

You can find out more about volcanoes and why they erupt on this page: Volcano Facts

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Famous Volcanoes: Introduction

Volcanoes are mountains formed by magma (molten rock) emerging from cracks in the Earth’s thin outer crust.

Most volcanoes appear along the sides of the huge plates (known as tectonic plates) that make up the surface of the world – either where the plates are moving …

Sowing Seeds of Impact: NSAC’s Year in Review and Vision for 2024

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A Whirlwind Year

It has been a long, unusual year for federal policy, and the implications for sustainable agriculture and food systems policy have been unmistakable.

2023 was supposed to be the year the farm bill was reauthorized. But, as our readers know, the 2018 Farm Bill expired on September 30. More than a month later, Congress extended the 2018 Farm Bill’s authority through September 30, 2024, extending the window of opportunity to reauthorize the five-year bill during this Congressional cycle. This significant delay in reauthorization is not unprecedented and highlights the complex circumstances looming over the 118th Congress heading into 2024.

Before the current session of Congress ever began, the 117th Congress passed the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) in August 2022. Combined with the fall 2022 midterm elections, the drafting and …

Soil organic carbon losses exacerbated by climate extremes

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Nature Climate Change, Published online: 22 December 2023; doi:10.1038/s41558-023-01873-4

Both warming and precipitation changes are affecting the global carbon cycle, although the impact of the frequency and intensity of climate extremes on carbon cycling is unclear. Now, research suggests that most extreme events enhance soil organic carbon losses under warming globally.
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