Global Warming

Dorchester County’s Valley Proteins plant suspends operations amid pollution woes; State says lawsuit is coming

Leave a Comment / Climate Change, Environment, Global Warming, Pollution / By / December 23, 2021

Valley Proteins, Dorchester County’s troubled chicken rendering plant, has suspended operations after environmental groups and state inspectors raised pollution concerns, the Maryland Department of the Environment said Wednesday. The plant attracted scrutiny earlier this year after lawmakers discovered it was to receive a $13 million subsidy from the state for a wastewater system upgrade, even after previous …

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2021: a year when floods and fires made climate change a burning issue for the world

Leave a Comment / Climate Change, CSR, CSR Reporting, Environment, Global Warming, Save Earth / By / December 22, 2021

In 2021 it was impossible not to see or hear the slogans of activists and politicians as the devastating effects of climate change became real across the world including Europe. Between flooding in several nations and massive wildfires in Greece, Turkey and parts of the US, it all started to look apocalyptic. The alarm bells …

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Climate change: Impact of rising temperatures on neurological disorders

Leave a Comment / Climate Change, CSR, CSR Reporting, Environment, Global Warming / By / December 16, 2021

As a step toward understanding the effects of global warming on brain health, a recent systematic review analyzed the impact of increasing ambient temperatures on individuals with neurological disorders. Elevated ambient temperatures were associated with exacerbated symptoms and increased hospitalization and mortality rates in individuals with neurological disorders. The study also compared the occurrence of …

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Climate change is transforming how Angelenos live, breathe and escape the heat

Leave a Comment / Climate Change, CSR, CSR Reporting, Environment, Global Warming / By / December 10, 2021

If you’re looking for evidence that the climate crisis is taking a toll, look no further than a new survey of Angelenos. Fifty-one percent of Los Angeles County residents avoided going outside at some point between summer 2020 and summer 2021 because of concerns about breathing wildfire smoke, the University of Southern California survey found. More than …

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Plants can slow global warming, but they cannot stop it

Leave a Comment / Climate Change, CSR, CSR Reporting, Environment, Global Warming, Save Earth / By / December 9, 2021

Since carbon dioxide remains in the atmosphere far longer than other greenhouse gases, driving climate change, efforts to reduce it are critical. On a global scale, plants sequester almost one-third of CO2 emissions through photosynthesis, according to new research led by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). Thus, forests and other similar ecosystems are some of the …

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