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Higher methane emissions from gas infrastructure have negated much of U.S. climate progress in the past two decades, a new study shows.

On estime qu'entre 100 millions et un milliard d'oiseaux meurent chaque année en heurtant des bâtiments aux États-Unis, les lumières artificielles jouant un rôle majeur dans ce bilan. Mais les effets de la pollution lumineuse sur le monde naturel seraient encore bien plus importants.

Don't you stumble, sometimes, into something that seems to make a lot of sense, but you can't say exactly why? For a long time, I had in mind the idea that when things start going bad, they tend to go bad fast. We might call this tendency the "Seneca effect" or the "Seneca cliff," from Lucius Annaeus Seneca who wrote that "increases are of sluggish growth, but the way to ruin is rapid."

Knock-on effects could transform the Amazon rainforest into savannah

Freshwater is a fundamental resource in our world, even more than crude oil. Without freshwater, it would be impossible to maintain the current agricultural production that manages to feed nearly 8 billion human beings. Most of the world's agriculture, nowadays, is based on irrigation. It means that production depends on water that has been stored somewhere, naturally or artificially. And once you start depending on a limited stock of resources, you face a problem. Even renewable, if you exploit it faster than it renews itself, you will eventually run out of it. It is the phenomenon called "overexploitation"

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