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  Ghana’s Atewa Range Forest, designated by the Government of Ghana as a Globally Significant Biodiversity Area, has from today made it on to the list of the world’s Alliance for Zero Extinction (AZE) sites.   This is a critical new development as Atewa Forest now becomes a “No-Go Area” for mining, strengthening its protection of the species, ecosystem services and livelihoods it supports. To achieve this reputable global conservation status, the area must contain more than 95 per cen...

February 3, 2021 Trees are seen by the private sector as an attractive and accessible offset, easy to measure, easy to invest in and easy to promote. Photo by Jacob Lund on Shutterstock. If 2020 taught us anything, it was that plans can be derailed in an instant, priorities change overnight and what we consider to be pressing challenges one day can become low-priority issues the next. In 2020 all sectors — business, government and NGO — saw their best laid plans unravel or become irreleva...

Corrosion-resistant steels for cargo oil tanks Crude oil is a complex mixture of substances at varying ratios and in most cases contains at least some salt water. Even after desalination some of this brine remains dissolved in the crude and gradually sinks to the bottom of the cargo oil tank during transport. The corrosive nature of salt, along with microorganisms and other aggressive substances contained in the cargo oil, causes rust, most notably in the form of pitting, which are cavities in ...

Piece of the tree came through the window. >> it was unbelievable. i never heard a sound like that before. martha: mother nature at work. the impact from that strike was so powerful that pieces of the tree were found across the street. bill: oh! the obama administration now facing strong opposition on the hill against the epas new rules regulating coal plants. twenty-five states suing over the epas plan. senator joe manchin, democrat out of west virginia, serves on the energy and natural resourc...

Is carbon constrained. the present needs to be carbon constrain constrained. you have to use the newest technologies before you go forward with the divergence, that is the first thing you need to do with communities. the second thing is well set the guidance, set it as aggressively as we can. but that is a performance standard. were just going to allow states to look at the most meaningful way to approach the standard so that it is cost effective for them, and they have growth opportunities and ...

The guidance, set it as aggressively as we can. but that is a performance standard. were just going to allow states to look at the most meaningful way to approach the standard so that it is cost effective for them, and they have growth opportunities and they can do it in the way that reduces carbons. rachel, dealing with carbon change is not going to be resolved with these moves. we need to get moving and need to act now. that is what the president said. this is part of the overall effort. if we...

Before my body will. >> that wasthe challenge of it all. >> you will push your body. it is 100 conspiracy a mind game. >> they begin opening combat. they are vowing to have performance standard. >> some of the girls can drag the guys better than me. >> how much do they rely on the each other? >> it is a big one. without one another, most of them would have difficulty with the course we push team work. >> sailors are carrying an encryptedro and water and mre and woman and pack and all of that gea...