March 2020 – Page 3 – Our Fragile Earth

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The world’s tropical forests are rapidly losing their ability to absorb carbon dioxide from greenhouse gas emissions. This decrease is[…]

It’s estimated that if food waste was a country, it would be the third largest emitter of greenhouse gases after[…]

Plastics’ consumption of oil may outpace that of cars by 2050. The production process consumes fossil fuels to make plastics[…]

Heat is generated by injecting pure oxygen into a furnace. It reacts with the carbon emanating from rotting garbage in[…]

An Interior Department official’s efforts have led to insertion of misleading language about climate change that appears in at least[…]

Our corn and soybean production has increased. Wheat too. That’s probably thanks to declining coal power plant production of electricity.[…]

Photo of my dog taken in front of Bank of America Are we supposed to believe Bank of America’s statement[…]

Three percent of our nation’s energy goes to pump and treat water, so cutting back water use conserves energy and[…]