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Scientists need to know how much we can rely on the land to offset our emissions.
Economic recovery and carbon neutrality are linked. Both depend on the ocean’s ability to continue to regulate climate.
We analysed 210,000 tree ring records from 80 different species, and found the trade off between growth and lifespan may neutralise the forest carbon sink.
Between 1986 and 2016, Kenya lost about 21 of its seagrasses.
We discovered wind farms in Spain that had carved up peat bogs, causing them to release carbon to the atmosphere.
Earth’s has gone through major climate changes in the past. They happened on time scales of millions of years and triggered mass extinctions. Our emissions are changing the climate much faster.
Plants take carbon from the atmosphere as they grow, but it goes straight back when they die or are harvested. There is an important difference between carbon fluxes and actual carbon sequestration.
Scientists behind a major new study explain how they discovered these forests are becoming less able to sequester carbon.
Without care, reforestation projects can damage ecosystems and be useless as carbon stores. Here’s how to go about it the right way.
In the absence of animals to help larger trees reproduce, forests are suffering.
The monster trees are almost 90m tall, and may make the Amazon’s northeast a much greater carbon sink than previously thought.
The boreal forest is being reshaped by wildfire. As climate change intensifies wildfire activity, the boreal forest will likely become a carbon source.
Boreal forests store one-third of all terrestrial carbon - but for how long?
A new study shows these elephants boost the carbon stored in their forests by 7%.
The vast majority of climate scientists agree that rising CO₂ is driving climate change, yet barely 50% of the public agrees. Did scientists get the story wrong? No, as the fossil record makes clear.
By enacting a legislative framework to achieve carbon neutrality, France and the United Kingdom are making a difference in the fight against climate change.
The bold pronouncements of 2019 must mean something through the 2020s and beyond.
Why radical changes to society are needed if we are to escape environmental disaster.
Carbon in soil can help with tackling climate change. Maintaining soil quality by supporting farmers through economic incentives and technical approaches is important.
Top contributors
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Chief Research Scientist, CSIRO Environment; Executive Director, Global Carbon Project, CSIRO
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Royal Society Research Professor of Climate Change Science, University of East Anglia
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Professor of Global Change Science at University of Leeds and, UCL
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Research Associate, Institute of Coastal and Marine Research, Nelson Mandela University
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Géochimiste, chargé de recherche CNRS au Centre de recherches pétrographiques et géochimiques de Nancy, Université de Lorraine
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Senior Researcher, Center for International Climate and Environment Research - Oslo
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Snr research fellow in environmental sciences, James Cook University
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University of Technology Sydney
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Research scientist, NASA
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Professor, Department of Earth System Science, and Chair of the Global Carbon Project, Stanford University
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Senior Researcher, Center for International Climate and Environment Research - Oslo
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Géochronologue et paléoclimatologue, chargé de recherches CNRS - Centre de recherches pétrographiques et géochimiques (Nancy) et Laboratoire de glaciologie (Bruxelles), Université de Lorraine
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Pro Vice-Chancellor of Research, University of Technology Sydney
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Honorary fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Atmospheric Science, University of Birmingham
