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Two Roads Diverged in Southeast Asia’s Forests

By Natasha Vizcarra Bounded on the west by the remote broadleaf and conifer forests of northern Myanmar and on the east by the wooded floodplains of West Papua in Indonesia, Southeast Asia’s forests...

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Asia Cuts Its Carbon Faster Than Europe

— By Alex Kirby LONDON – When it comes to prowess in moving towards a low-carbon economy, some countries in Asia are increasingly outpacing Europe and the United States, a new report shows. Three of...

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Coastal Blue Carbon From Planted Mangroves Holds Promise

— Indonesia – Mangrove forests might account for only 0.5 percent of coastal areas worldwide, but they punch well above their weight when it comes to mitigating climate change. A recent study in...

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Carbon Cuts Will Not Prevent Sea Level Rise

— By Tim Radford British scientists have just discovered one of the richest stores of carbon on Earth. They have found 145,000 square kilometres of peatland – an area larger than England – in the...

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There Is Space for Carbon Storage Underground

— By Tim Radford There is plenty of room for more of the main greenhouse gas on this planet – as long as it’s caught and trapped in carbon storage underground. New research confirms that when it comes...

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Ocean Sensitivity May Lower Carbon Emissions Cuts

— By Tim Radford As greenhouse gas emissions soar, ocean sensitivity has quietly helped humanity to slow global heating: the seas have responded by absorbing more and more carbon dioxide from the...

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Blue Carbon Science for Sustainable Development

— By Leona Liu Indonesia – Mangrove forests have been recognized for a variety of important functions, such as buffering coastal zones from tropical storms and inundation, providing nutrients to coral...

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Deforestation in Tropical Africa Is Not as Bad as Previously Thought The...

By Julie C. Aleman, Université de Montréal Deforestation has massive effects on the biosphere. It contributes to carbon emissions, changes in water cycles and biodiversity loss. The main cause of...

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New Maps of Global Forest Carbon Flux Offer Fresh Insights for Action

  By Monica Evans This article was originally published in Forest News. Forests are crucial for global efforts to prevent dangerous climate change. As the global community works out what to prioritize...

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5 Books To Raise Your Climate Consciousness in 2021

  By David Charles 2020 was a tough year for everyone, but if there was one tiny chink of light, it was that, together, we proved civilization can survive a significant drop in global carbon emissions....

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“Wartime” Investment in Carbon Capture Must Start Now, Researchers Say

  By David Charles Despite a 7 percent drop in global carbon emissions as a result of the pandemic in 2020, the UN Emissions Gap Report predicts that, by the end of the century, we are on course for a...

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Can Soil Inoculation Accelerate Carbon Sequestration in Forests?

  By David Charles When foresters first tried to plant non-native Pinus radiata in the southern hemisphere, the trees would not grow until someone thought to bring a handful of soil from the native...

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Climate Crisis Finds Ample Answers in World’s Trees

By Tim Radford The great climate change challenge should consider the world’s trees. New wooden cities and suburbs − that is, new homes fashioned from wood rather than bricks and mortar − could consume...

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Russia’s Vast Forests Sequester Far More Carbon Than Previously Thought

  By Daniel T Cross Russia, the world’s largest country, is home to a fifth of forests on the planet and protecting those forests is crucial to mitigating climate change. Encouragingly, Russia’s...

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The Amazon Is No Longer a Carbon Sink. It’s a ‘Carbon Source’

  By Sustainability Times The rainforests of the Amazon have long been known as “the lungs of the planet,” yet that may no longer be the case. The region’s forests produce more than a billion tons of...

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The Challenges Of Carbon Capture and Storage

By Dan Lennon Carbon capture and storage (or CCS for short), involves capturing carbon emissions and burying them underground. There are two points at which this can be done: At the power plant before...

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Proposed Hedgerow Carbon Code Could Unlock More Than £60m Income for Farmers,...

  A ground-breaking project to unlock the environmental potential of hedgerows has been given the go-ahead with a government grant of £81,561. The scheme, being developed by the Game & Wildlife...

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365 Days of Climate Awareness 7 – Carbon Sources and Sinks

  One of the basic analytical tools in climate change is to identify carbon dioxide sources and sinks. These can be used to create a complete carbon dioxide budget for the atmosphere, but even without...

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How Would Planting 8 Billion Trees Every Year for 20 Years Affect Earth’s...

By Karen D. Holl, University of California, Santa Cruz Politicians, business leaders, YouTubers and celebrities are calling for the planting of millions, billions or even trillions of trees to slow...

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Amazonia’s Forests Leak Carbon They Once Stored

By Tim Radford Part of Brazil − home to the world’s greatest rainforest − is becoming a source of greenhouse gases. What had once been a powerful machine in the climate system for absorbing carbon...

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