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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.
We want good news on climate change. But whales storing enough carbon needs more evidence.
Russia has vast natural resources and is involved in many conservation efforts. Its diplomatic isolation as a result of the war in Ukraine is making it harder to protect many wild species and places.
Brazilian President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva says he will end land clearance in Brazil’s Amazon region. But powerful forces profit from rainforest destruction.
The Midwest had a lot of trees, but just a few species were responsible for the bulk of the carbon storage.
Our new analysis suggests the vast majority of carbon credits granted for regrowing native forests either has not occurred, or would have occurred anyway.
Labor has promised a 43% cut in Australia’s emissions by 2030 and a high-integrity carbon credit market is vital to reaching this goal.
More carbon dioxide in the air doesn’t necessarily mean more growth for trees, and the increasing risk of wildfires and drought has major consequences, as an interactive map shows.
Directing public funds to native forest logging is bad for the economy, the climate and biodiversity, and will increase bushfire risk.
New research shows that coast redwood trees have a surprising adaptation that helps them thrive in both wet and dry environments.
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.
The growing season on the tundra is starting earlier as the planet warms, but the plants aren’t sequestering more carbon, a new study finds.
Seaweed was thought to be a vital tool in the fight to slow climate change. But it turns out seaweed ecosystems may be a natural source of carbon dioxide – and not a sink.
Tiny seashells draw carbon to the ocean floor when they die. This is the most significant geological process of carbon storage today, and it might increase in a warmer world, as it did in the past.
Wind turbines often can produce more power than is needed for electricity onshore. That extra energy could be put to work capturing and storing carbon.
Beavers in our landscapes have great potential to provide small-scale adaptations to climate change – if humans can figure out how to live with them.
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Saving African forests is a global concern and needs prioritisation.
Nature-based solutions can help us sustainably tackle climate disasters - but to do that, they urgently need policy support.
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Professor, The Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University
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Senior Lecturer, Public Sector Management, UNSW Sydney
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Affiliate Professor, Geography, Planning and Environment, Concordia University
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Distinguished Professor of Climate Science, Simon Fraser University
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Professor, Australian National University
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Professor and Director of Research, ANU Law School, Australian National University
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Professor and Concordia University Research Chair in Climate Science and Sustainability, Concordia University
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Professor, University of New England
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Professor of Global Change, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor & Director, Primary Industries Climate Challenges Centre, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Soil & Landscape Science, Curtin University
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Head of Geospatial at Trove Research, University of Hong Kong
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Research Leader Pastures an Rangelands, The University of Melbourne
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Adjunct Professor, University of New England
