Tag: environment
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Whale That Swam 20 Miles Up Washington River Is Found Dead
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in GeneralEach year, from mid-February to May, eastern North Pacific gray whales migrate northward along the West Coast, but in recent years more have been dying on the journey. Last year, 179 gray whales died during migration season, 18 of them in Washington State, said John Calambokidis, a research biologist with the Cascadia Research Collective, which had been…
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How a ‘polluted, dysfunctional’ farm let wildlife back in
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in GeneralA walk through the Knepp Estate, in southern England, could lead you past beaver wetlands, breeding herons and free-roaming Exmoor ponies — all accompanied by the distinctive cooing of a turtle dove. “It’s a sound that used to be part of our culture. Every person’s summer in England would have been characterized by that sound,”…
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This alien plant is lethal for the environment. Now it’s being turned into a plastic to regrow forests
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in GeneralHyaPak Ecotech Limited, founded by Joseph Nguthiru, began life as a final year project by the former Egerton University civil and environmental engineering student. Nguthiru and his classmates experienced the problem of water hyacinths firsthand on a field trip to Lake Naivasha in 2021, when their boat became trapped for five hours. They returned determined to…
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Google’s greenhouse gas emissions are soaring thanks to AI
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in GeneralAI systems need lots of computers to make them work. The data centers needed to run them, essentially warehouses full of powerful computing equipment, suck up tons of energy to process data and manage the heat all of those computers produce. The end result has been that Google’s greenhouse gas emissions have soared 48% since 2019,…
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Pork’s Dirty Secret: The nation’s top hog producer is also one of America’s worst polluters
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in GeneralOriginal article on Rolling Stone magazine, December 2006:https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/12840743/porks_dirty_secret_the_nations_top_hog_producer_is_also_one_of_americas_worst_polluters Also:https://www.oliveridley.org/2007/01/04/rolling-stone-magazine-expose-on-the-pork-industry/