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ALERT: Biofuels to Turn Kenya’s Rich Tana Delta Wetlands into Ecological Wasteland

Let the Kenyan government know destroying ecosystems for toxic sugar monocultures is unethical, and ask them to please follow their own environmental laws, and permanently cancel the project

TAKE ACTION! Kenya has recently approved plans to destroy some 20,000 hectares of the globally important and ecologically sensitive Tana Delta for sugar and biofuel production [search]. Covering [...]

Amazon River Found to Be Key to Tropical Ocean Carbon Sink

Interesting new findings suggest the Amazon River powers tropical ocean’s carbon sinks [ark | more\ark] by transporting nutrients well beyond the continental shelf, pushing carbon capture into the deep ocean. Fed from river transported iron and phosphorus, organisms called diazotrophs pull nitrogen and carbon from the air and make organic solids that sink to the [...]

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