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‘Green roads’ are plowing ahead, buffering drought and floods
As the developing world witnesses a boom in road building, a movement to retrofit existing roads is gathering steam. Using embankments, channels, and dikes, so-called “green roads” help control floods, harvest excess water for use in irrigation, and slash maintenance costs.
As Biden shifts infrastructure focus to climate and racial justice, cities and states alter pitches for federal money
The Department of Transportation has tied $2 billion in coveted grant funds to the administration’s social-justice goals.
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Paul Greenberg, Carl Safina: We need an infrastructure package for nature
The long-term needs of ecosystems should come before our knee-jerk demands to get back to life.
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Philip M. Fearnside, Lucas Ferrante, Aurora M. Yanai, Marcos Antonio Isaac Júnior: Trans-Purus: Brazil’s last intact Amazon forest at immediate risk
Major roadbuilding, including the “reconstruction” of the BR-319 highway, now threatens the Brazilian Amazon’s last, vast intact rainforest, vital to Brazilian ecosystem services.
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A wave of infrastructure projects to cause widespread deforestation in coming decades, report finds
A slate of new mega-projects in development around the world will open up vast tracts of land to natural resource extraction and deforestation, derailing government and private sector pledges to curb forest loss, according to a new report.
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Infrastructure projects in the tropics threaten forests and community rights, study finds
Large-scale infrastructure investments in Latin American countries threaten efforts to protect tropical forests and mitigate climate change, according to a new analysis published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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Bringing the endangered Vancouver Island marmot back from the brink
The heaviest member of the squirrel family was almost wiped out, but an elaborate, and pricey, recovery program has boosted numbers.
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