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Posts in this category are about Natural Capital, which includes the core and crust of the earth, the biosphere itself, and the upper layers of the atmosphere. Natural Capital provides a wide variety of valuable Ecosystem Services including flood control, climate stabilization, and maintenance of soil fertility. Also, ecosystems provide a wide variety of valuable benefits that have significant economic value.
Ecosystem health can be maintained by applying appropriate land-use planning, encouraging businesses to recycle materials, and engaging federal and state land administrators to manage lands in ways that adhere to objectives for sustainability.
(Adapted from ConservationEconomy.net)
EPA denies challenges to greenhouse gas rule
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday rejected 10 petitions challenging EPA's 2009 finding that climate-warming greenhouse gas emissions endanger human health and the environment.
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(0)Innovative Ideas for Urban Agriculture
Non-profit TerraformOne held a design contest for ideas for creating productive green spaces in cities. Winners include plans to put seniors to work as farmers and a global system of levees.
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Warmer Climate Entails Increased Release of Carbon Dioxide by Inland Lakes
Much organically bound carbon is deposited on inland lake bottoms and Swedish researchers have shown in a new study in Nature that carbon retention by sediment at lake bottoms is highly temperature-sensitive and that a warmer climate would result in increased carbon dioxide emissions to the atmosphere. (Swedish Research Council release)
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