DFW Airport Earth Month 2025
April 1-30, 2025
April 1-30, 2025
Why is biodiversity so important? Conserve Energy Future – Biodiversity plays a fundamental role in maintaining the aesthetic value and integrity of the natural environment, helping promote the overall well-being of all plant and animal life. Referring to the various life forms that exist on Earth,
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America’s Wetlands Texas Parks & Wildlife – Wetlands are the transitional zones between uplands and deep water – areas where water covers soil all or part of the time – protecting and improving water quality, providing fish and wildlife habitats, storing floodwaters and maintaining surface water
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Protecting the striped horses EARTH.org – Renowned for its striking black and white stripes, zebras are a vital part of the ecosystem, grazing on grass and helping to maintain environmental equilibrium.Climate change exacerbates the challenges for zebras, who struggle with drought and extreme heat waves, jeopardizing
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Play your part in protecting our ocean habitats Great Barrier Reef Foundation – The threats to the Great Barrier Reef are too complex for one solution to solve but we can collectively do our part to create a lifeline for coral reefs.Coral reefs are the beating
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The rise of women firefighters in Indonesia UNDP – As Indonesia grapples with the dual pressures of climate change and rapid deforestation, women are stepping into crucial roles in forest fire management, contributing their unique strengths to prevention and response.Each year, the Indonesian archipelago faces devastating
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Forests have more than one trick up their trees Science News – Forests influence their local climates through various physical and chemical processes, cooling the trees and their surroundings. And a new study finds that tropical forests help cool the average global temperature by more than
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Strategies that promote community-level climate resilience The Nature Conservancy – With rising temperatures and changing rainfall patterns, climate change is already causing more frequent and catastrophic wildfires. Over the next 50 years more people will be exposed to wildfires with potentially disastrous consequences.Fire is a natural
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An Eco-Friendly New Year’s Resolutions for 2025 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency – We’re in the midst of significant waste crisis with plastic polluting our planet more by the day, but we also have the power to come together as individuals to change things.The most effective way
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What makes a Christmas tree more sustainable Scientific American – People often ask which is more sustainable, a real tree or an artificial one, and the answer depends on who you ask and which factors you consider.When Christmas trees are alive and growing, they pull carbon
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As global temperatures rise, wildfires are getting more frequent and intense. Yale Climate Connections – The rise in average global temperatures has led to higher spring and summer temperatures, causing soils to dry out earlier and remain dry longer and contributing to more and bigger wildfires
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