Planting trees to offset carbon is meaningless if the trees are lost to fire. A new way of understanding carbon storage based on both time and quantity stored is required to fully utilize carbon storage in climate change mitigation strategies.
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Tracking both the amount of carbon and the time that it remains stored is key to unlocking the potential of nature-based carbon storage as a climate mitigation strategy.
Invertebrates are “the little things that run the world”. So researchers decided to count all the ants on Earth, to help monitor how they’re coping with environmental challenges.
Ika Krismantari, The Conversation and Ayesha Nadya Muna, The Conversation
Ketika pemerintah Indonesia berencana untuk membuka kembali sekolah, sebuah metode pembelajaran yang memadukan sistem belajar jarak jauh dan tatap muka ditawarkan.
A student in Salatiga, Central Java, gets a medical check up before entering her class.
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Of the 72 countries that still criminalise gay sex today, at least 38 of them were once subject to British colonialism.
Very wet weather is likely to persuade many regular cyclists and walkers to travel instead by car if they can. This is Bondi Junction after a storm hit Sydney.
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The relationship between weather and our travel choices is complicated. We can’t change the weather, but, with many other factors in play, good policy and design can reduce its impacts.
The People’s Daily, the official newspaper of the Chinese Communist Party, has let its displeasure over questions of influence in Australian politics be known.
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Official Chinese editorials give an insight into Beijing’s reaction to the stories swirling around about Chinese influence – and it’s not good news.
Mass evacuations in response to natural disasters like Hurricane Maria are a logistical challenge, but also face psychological barriers to residents being willing and able to leave.
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Sunanda Creagh, The Conversation and Emil Jeyaratnam, The Conversation
Next week, the Communist Party of China will commence its 19th National Party Congress, where its leadership and policy agenda for the next five years will be announced.
China’s latest energy plan would see coal power increase by 200 gigawatts.
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Although ‘race’ as a biological category was discredited long ago, racial thinking or racialism is still common in China.
Some UN peacekeepers stand accused of sexual offences against children in the Central African Republic. An overhaul of the UN’s peacekeeping operations is needed to tackle the problem.
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A UN report has found that in half of 12 country studies done on child sexual exploitation during armed conflict, the arrival of peacekeeping troops resulted in a rapid rise in child prostitution.
La diplomatie climatique réunit Xi Jinping, le président chinois, et Barack Obama, le président nord-américain, le 25 septembre dernier à Washington.
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Le président chinois s’est engagé à réduire les émissions de gaz à effet de serre de son pays, en œuvrant pour la mise en place d’un immense marché du carbone testé depuis 2013.
Russia has different goals in Syria than the US and its allies. As ISIS weakens, that will become more apparent.
Climate diplomacy: in a another joint announcement from the US and China, president Xi Jinping committed to an emissions trading scheme in 2017.
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Chinese President Xi Jinping has made a landmark commitment on climate change, pledging to launch what will become the world’s largest and most important emissions trading scheme when it begins in 2017.