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Deforested areas rim a highway running through the state of Amazonas in Brazil. Credit: Michael Dantas/AFP/Getty
Deforestation slowed last year — but not enough to meet climate goals
October 28, 2022

Countries are failing to meet international targets to stop global forest loss and degradation by 2030, according to a report.

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Deep sea mining robot Patania II beginning its descent into the Pacific Ocean. Credit - GSR/Reuters
Is deep-sea mining a cure for the climate crisis or a curse?
August 30, 2021

Trillions of metallic nodules on the sea floor could help stop global heating, but mining them may damage ocean ecology... These metallic morsels could...help humanity save itself from the ravages of global warming, argue mining companies who say their extraction should be rated an

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The sun rises over a neighborhood in Encinitas, California, amid a heatwave last year. Photograph: Mike Blake/Reuters
Earth is trapping ‘unprecedented’ amount of heat, Nasa says
June 24, 2021

The Earth is trapping nearly twice as much heat as it did in 2005, according to new research, described as an “unprecedented” increase amid the climate crisis.

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The complex link between population decline and a warming planet. Credit - CC0 Public Domain
The complex link between population decline and a warming planet
June 11, 2021

It's time to stop blaming overpopulation for our environmental woes and start looking at the factors that really matter—resource consumption and toxic exposure as population growth and fertility rates show downward trends. U.S. and global populations are both growing at slower rates.

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Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Credit - Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS)AIMS
How we can help coral and seabirds survive a warming world
June 5, 2021

Global warming is not just increasing average temperatures on land, it’s heating up the oceans as well. As marine heat waves become more common, they are disrupting longstanding relationships between species that have come to depend on each other.

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Island species and endemics will bear brunt if warming exceeds 3°C: Study
April 16, 2021

Endemic species on islands, especially plant species, are at the greatest risk of disappearing because of climate change, a study has found.

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Research was centered on latitudes found between 20 degrees north, a line that cuts through Mexico, Libya and India, to 20 degrees south. Photograph: Noah Seelam/AFP/Getty Images
Global heating pushes tropical regions towards limits of human livability
March 12, 2021

The climate crisis is pushing the planet’s tropical regions towards the limits of human livability, with rising heat and humidity threatening to plunge much of the world’s population into potentially lethal conditions, new research has found.

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tropical forest. Credit - https://news.mongabay.com/
We’re killing those tropical trees we’re counting on to absorb carbon dioxide
February 26, 2021

A pair of recent studies show that rising temperatures are shortening the lives of trees in tropical forests and reducing their capacity to absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere...Forests play a major role in fighting global warming, but the authors of the recent studies say we shouldn’t be o

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Graphic depicting the temperature tipping point at which Earth's plants will start decreasing the amount of human-caused carbon emissions they can absorb. Credit: Victor O. Leshyk/Northern Arizona University
Earth to reach temperature tipping point in next 20 to 30 years, new study finds
January 21, 2021

Earth's ability to absorb nearly a third of human-caused carbon emissions through plants could be halved within the next two decades at the current rate of warming, according to a new study in Science Advances by researchers at Northern Arizona University, the Woodwell Climate

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A new study has found that ocean acidification is damaging the shells of young Dungeness crab off the Oregon coast. Credit - TNS
Reversing ocean acidification is doable, if we have the political will | Opinion
September 17, 2020

Ocean acidification, one of many devastating effects of the warming earth, has been well-documented. It’s no longer up for debate. We now know that this process is adversely affecting many of the species that are the cornerstone of major oceanic ecosystems.

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