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"...“AAFC’s contributions to reduce emissions … are integral to the fight against climate change, which is why setting targets and tracking results are so important,” said DeMarco in a statement. “Given the current climate crisis and limited results thus far, AAFC will need to ensure that all its expected reductions in greenhouse gas emissions for 2030 take place in the six growing seasons that remain. ” Agriculture is responsible for about 10 per cent of Canada's emissions; it is a major source of methane and nitrous oxide, which are potent GHGs..."

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"...Watch the highlights from the naming ceremony of the world’s first container vessel sailing on green methanol, Laura Mærsk🍾This marks a momentous milestone towards reaching net-zero emissions by 2040🌏Together we can go #ALLTHEWAYTOZERO#Maersk #LauraMaersk #Decarbonisation pic. twitter. com/b3bEHQPrZD— Maersk (@Maersk) September 15, 2023To meet the IMO’s newest regulations — which it designed to put the shipping industry on a path to net zero by 2050 — commercial vessels will have to cut their carbon emissions by at least 30 per cent in just six years, says Simon Bullock, a shipping and climate change researcher at the University of Manchester in England..."

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"...Inside an electric toothbrushs waterproof housing is a battery that powers a tiny motor which rapidly rotates or vibrates a replaceable brush head. The batteries are usually rechargeable but don't last forever. The question of their longevity, and toothbrush repairability as a whole, is the subject of many online forums..."

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"...“We don't think carbon capture works as well as industry and promoters claim,” said David Schissel, an analyst who wrote the report for the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis, an international non-profit agency..."

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"...NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) The Cyprus government has given Chevron another six months to come up with a revised plan to develop a sizeable natural gas deposit off the island nations southern coastline after an earlier plan proposed by the U. S. energy company lacked a timetable, an official said Thursday..."

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"...Climate change has been boosting drought in Hawaii, drying the archipelago's vegetation and increasing the risks of destructive blazes. Wildfires were once rare in Hawaii but they have grown in frequency in recent years..."

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"...Still, the investment numbers for the climate tech sector which includes businesses in renewable energy, carbon removal, land restoration and water and waste management are compelling: Last year, climate tech startups on the continent raised $1. 04 billion, a 9% increase from the previous year and triple what they raised in 2019, according to the funding database Africa: The Big Deal. That was despite a decline in the amount of money raised by all startups in total on the continent last year..."

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"...NB Power is planning to add an ARC-100 small modular reactor at the Point Lepreau Nuclear Generating Station by 2030, and made an application for site preparation last year. The New Brunswick government has a goal, as stated in its 12-year-energy plan, to add 600 megawatts of SMR energy production to the provincial grid by 2035..."

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"...Lytton issued its first building permit for a single-family home in the downtown area last November, four months after backfilling work began on properties destroyed by the fire. BC United MLA for Fraser-Nicola, Jackie Tegart, who has been calling for an audit since last year, said in a statement that it's encouraging that an investigation is underway and "deeply disappointing" that the government has not prioritized the return of residents. "To date, not a single home has been rebuilt..."

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"...FORT ST. JOHN, BC A trio of wildfires that started over the weekend are now listed by the BC Wildfire Service (BCWS) as being held..."

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"...CHETWYND, B. C. The BC Wildfire Service (BCWS) says thanks to favourable weather conditions over the last few days, the Wildmare Creek wildfire is now under control..."

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"...The Auditor General of B. C. will investigate the province's response to the 2021 wildfire that destroyed virtually the entire Village of Lytton..."

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"...LYTTON, B. C. British Columbia's auditor general says his office is doing a review of the province's response to the 2021 wildfire that devastated the community of Lytton, B..."

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"...The EPA is seeking public comment regarding cleanup on Bay City's Middle Grounds..."

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"...Mark Nelsonis an environmental engineer, author, and farmer at Synergia Ranch, in Santa Fe, NM..."

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"...There's a long list of known ways in which wildfire smoke can negatively affect corn and other crops, but could the overall effect of the smoky haze in summer potentially be positive for yields? It's a complex question to answer, says Dan Quinn, extension corn specialist with Purdue University, in this Corn School episode recorded. ..."

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"...However, their ability to store and sequester carbon is uncertain due to combined and intermingling effects of anthropogenic activities and climate change, which impact wildfire regimes and vegetation dynamics..."

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"...Chilean territory is recurrently affected by severe wildfires, which drastically reduce the forest cover and promote runoff, soil erosion and slope instabilities..."

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"...This carbon storage is vulnerable due to permafrost degradation and wildfire disturbances under ongoing and projected climate change..."

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"...Today wildfire is an important disturbance in many continental ecosystems, and it is assumed that with ongoing climate changes the frequencies and impacts of wildfires will increase in many regions..."

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"...Smoke from wildfires contains many air pollutants of concern and epidemiological studies have identified associations between exposure to wildfire smoke PM2..."

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"...The dataset is released in open access and is deemed to be useful for future wildfire evacuation modelling calibration and validation efforts..."

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"...Wildfires are a major problem in Mediterranean forest ecosystems, affecting the same area year after year..."

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"...Canopy cover is a primary attribute used in empirical wildfire models for certain fuel types..."

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"...In this paper, we convert excess mortality estimates due to increases in extreme weather from climate change (heat waves, cold waves, droughts, wildfires, river and coastal floods, and windstorms) into potential reductions in life expectancy at birth in thirty-one European countries..."

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"...A clear focus has been placed on earthquakes and flooding while wildfires and drought have been neglected..."

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"...Fire detection is a vital task for social, economic and environmental reasons..."

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"...Due to climate change, forest regions in California are increasingly experiencing severe wildfires, with other issues affecting the rest of the world..."

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"...seed, fertilizer, grain and feed systems and an expanding platform for food processing facilities..."

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