GeoWilmingtonThe Arctic America's last wilderness is about to go to the highest bidder for oil drilling verified_publisherThe Guardian - Kim HeacoxLanguage is everything. Those who argue for oil drilling in the Arctic national wildlife refuge, a place of stunning wild beauty in far north-east Alaska, seldom call it what it is – a refuge. Instead,...
GeoWilmington The Cerrado: how Brazil’s vital ‘water tank’ went from forest to soy fields verified_publisherThe Guardian - Dom PhillipsIt took just a few decades for Brazilian agriculture to transform its tropical savannah hinterlands – the Cerrado – into an agricultural powerhouse. Farmers and the growing agribusiness sector celebrated...
GeoWilmington Climate change: 2020 set to be one of the three warmest years on record bbc.co.uk - By Matt McGrathThe Earth continued to endure a period of significant heating in 2020 according to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). Its provisional assessment suggests this year will be one of the three hottest,...
GeoWilmingtonDeforestation Brazil's Amazon: Deforestation 'surges to 12-year high' verified_publisherBBC NewsDeforestation of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil has surged to its highest level since 2008, the country's space agency (Inpe) reports. A total of 11,088 sq km (4,281 sq miles) of rainforest were destroyed...
GeoWilmington Would UK be ready for 2030 new petrol car ban? bbc.co.ukBoris Johnson is poised to announce that the government is bringing forward by a decade a ban on the sale of new petrol and diesel cars to 2030 from 2040, the BBC understands. It's understood that new...
