Blue carbon is stored in mangroves, seagrass and sediments. Discussions at the UN Ocean Decade conference reiterate the importance of preserving existing sea floor habitats, before it’s too late.
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Mapping where water once flowed is important for managing flood risk today in Detroit and elsewhere.
In the face of growing social and environmental challenges, organizations in the food and agriculture sector are increasingly turning to nature for inspiration.
Too much stormwater is disappearing down the drain. Here’s how our cities can make more of their last untapped water source.
Less concrete, more wetlands, fewer wet wipes.
Booming prices for coastal properties are a mark of our reluctance to reckon with the climate change that is already upon us. We must start to properly account for and act on climate risk.
Coastal erosion along the St. Lawrence River has economic, social and cultural impacts.
Somerset Wetlands national nature reserve merges and extends six existing protected sites.
Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions decreased by only one per cent between 2005 and 2019. A new climate plan charts the path to deep cuts in carbon emissions in only eight years.
Planting trees and preventing deforestation can store carbon in nature, but the effect may only be temporary. If we also eliminate emissions from fossil fuels, even this temporary effect is important.
Management in the forestry and land use sector could reduce 60% of the entire nation’s carbon emissions.
Efforts to preserve biodiversity and slow climate change make natural bedfellows.
Nature-based solutions can help us sustainably tackle climate disasters - but to do that, they urgently need policy support.
Secondary forests are growing on deforested land in the Amazon – but not enough to offset emissions from logging.
Solve the climate and extinction crises together, or solve neither.
Even if they can’t save us from climate change, society still depends on forests.
A new nature-based approach to managing oilsands tailings shows promise in the lab and may soon be tested in the field.
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Reader in Natural Sciences, Bangor University
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Professor of Climate Change Impacts, CNRS, University of Texas, University of Plymouth
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Professor of Geology, University of Michigan-Dearborn
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Professor of Natural Sciences, UCL
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Professor of Sustainability and Strategy, University of Victoria
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Honorary Associate Professor, Australian National University
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Assistant Professor of Strategy and Sustainability, University of The Fraser Valley
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Professor of Soils and Global Change, University of Aberdeen
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Professor of Conservation Science, Lancaster University
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Senior Research Associate in Tropical Forest Ecology, University of Oxford
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PhD Candidate in Environmental Science, Lancaster University
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Professor of Political Science, University of British Columbia
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Affiliate Professor, Geography, Planning and Environment, Concordia University
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Research associate, Applied BioNanotechnoloy Industrial Research group, Northern Alberta Institute of Technology
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Professor of Biodiversity, University of Oxford
