Tag: Global Warming

Wood Dale, Illinois nonprofit EarthPaint makes difference to people with disabilities, helps environment!

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Wooddale, Illinois – Chris McCarthy has been in the paint business for over 20 years. He’s always been annoyed with the thousands of gallons of paint being dumped as waste, as it will eventually pollute the environment. In 2013, McCarthy founded a non-profit company called EarthPaint, located in Wood Dale, Illinois. The company collects old paints, which are then recycled and made into a quality product that is used by both homeowners and professionals alike. Since its opening, EarthPaint has recycled more than 70 million pounds of paint, diverting more…

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Deep drilling: How changing forest cover affects carbon stocks

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Typically, when scientists and policy makers consider the amount of carbon a forest can extract (‘sequester’) from the atmosphere, they consider the amount of carbon stored in biomass (simply trees). However, a recent study sheds light on a parallel phenomenon of equal importance in sequestering carbon from the atmosphere. Writing in Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, Lawrence et al. (2022) Report on the impact of change in forest cover on abiotic processes such as water and energy balance. These biophysical processes have a significant—but not yet examined—impact on the…

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