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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 cent of the entire population of one or more species listed as Endangered or Critically Endangered on t...

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 irrelevant in the global chaos of the pandemic. As we look to 2021, it might be foolish to make predictions ...

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 the steel that deepen over time. Double-hull tankers are more prone to pitting “Pitting corrosion ...

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 epa's new rules regulating coal plants. twenty-five states suing over the epa's plan. senator joe manchin, democrat out of west virginia, serves on the energy and natural resources committee, a strong, outspoken individual on this. senator, welcome back here. >> good to be wi...

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 we'll set the guidance, set it as aggressively as we can. but that is a performance standard. we're 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...