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Wasted Opportunities

Food waste causes 750 billion dollars of environmental damage each year.  Can better data trim the fat?
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 How’s Your Air Out There?

~In The Atlantic's CityLab~

When we put the world’s dirtiest power plants on a map of air pollution,
this is what we found.

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Chinese Stock Market
 
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Don’t Bolt: Recharge the Renewables

Will China’s
sinking stock market
yank the plug on its renewable energy
sector?
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What the UN's SDGs Say About Agriculture

The final text of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals were adopted this week, and the goals and targets yield a complicated future for sustainable agriculture.
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NASA's Grace Satellite
 
 

Groundwater Data

Data gathered by NASA’s Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) have generated the most comprehensive assessment of groundwater losses to date.
 
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ND-GAIN
 

An Adaptation Indicator

The Notre Dame Global Adaptation Index (ND-GAIN) rates how vulnerable countries are in a changing climate and how well prepared they are.
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A Carbon Indicator
 

A Carbon Method

Whose step really made that carbon footprint? This methodology, first published last March in Nature Climate Change, credits countries who clean up their exports.
 
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