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Sustainability

Posted byby TEB Sustainability Research Team
September 18, 2011

Sustainable Food Production: What Matters Most in 2026

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Sustainable food production is often reduced to a contest between farming labels. The 2026 reality is broader: the environmental footprint of food runs from land clearing and fertiliser to refrigeration,…

Climate Change

Posted byby TEB Sustainability Research Team
May 11, 2011

Global Warming First Victim? What Lohachara Island Really Tells Us Today

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For years, Lohachara Island has been described in dramatic terms: an inhabited island swallowed by rising seas and one of the first places on Earth lost to global warming. The…

Environment

Posted byby TEB Sustainability Research Team
January 5, 2011

Mystery Bird Deaths: Weather, Pollution or Disease?

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The thousands of red-winged blackbirds that fell over Beebe, Arkansas, on New Year’s Eve 2010 became an early social-media mystery. Pollution, secret weapons and apocalyptic theories circulated before laboratory evidence…

Other Stories

Posted byby TEB Sustainability Research Team
November 22, 2010

Tilikum Crossing: Portland’s Transit Bridge After a Decade

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Portland’s proposed Willamette River transit bridge is no longer a rendering. Tilikum Crossing, Bridge of the People, opened in September 2015 and now carries light-rail trains, streetcars, buses, bicycles and…

Environment

Posted byby TEB Sustainability Research Team
May 2, 2009

Mercury Pollution in 2026: Risks, Fish and Safer Choices

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Mercury pollution has fallen from several major U.S. sources, but the public-health problem has not disappeared. The important update in 2026 is that progress at smokestacks coexists with persistent mercury…

Environment

Posted byby TEB Sustainability Research Team
March 22, 2009

Arctic Ice Melting: What the 2025 Data Really Show

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Arctic ice melting is no longer defined by a single record-low summer. The bigger story in 2026 is structural: the ice pack is younger, thinner and less able to survive…

Climate Change

Posted byby TEB Sustainability Research Team
March 8, 2009

The Arctic Ice Melting

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Scientists will warn this week that the projected sea level rise from IPCC’s most updated report in 2007 was underestimated. Scientists now feel that low lying areas including the Netherlands,…

Energy

Posted byby TEB Sustainability Research Team
March 2, 2009

Smart Grid Technology: What Is Changing in 2026

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Smart grid technology is no longer a futuristic layer that utilities may add someday. It is already embedded in millions of meters, substations and control rooms. What has changed in…

Animals

Posted byby TEB Sustainability Research Team
May 22, 2008

Chicken Feed Additives: What Changed After the Arsenic Scare

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The old chicken-feed additive health scare needs a clear 2026 correction. Roxarsone and other arsenic-based poultry drugs that triggered concern in the 2000s are no longer approved for use in…

Environment

Posted byby TEB Sustainability Research Team
May 9, 2008

Farm Animal Waste: Pollution Risks and Practical Solutions

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Farm animal waste is still an environmental hazard, but the 2026 story is no longer simply “manure is pollution.” Manure is a valuable fertilizer and energy feedstock when nutrients match…