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The Earth's mangroves could end up emitting 500 times more carbon by the end of the century, study warns
Despite covering a mere 0.1% of Earth's surface, mangrove forests play a critical role in regulatin…
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Climate-smart villages to come up in Tamil Nadu to protect state's agriculture against climate change
The impacts of climate change-fuelled changes not only affect individual farmers' livelihoods, but …
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More than one-third of worldwide annual emissions are being sequestered into the soil by fungi!
Recent research has shown that the massive underground network of fungi could end up storing about …
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Did we overestimate the benefits of planting trees to fight climate change? A new study says yes
While planting trees certainly helps, there are a ton of usually uncounted things that prevent it f…
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Wetlands in the icy Arctic have begun releasing 9% more planet-warming methane in the past two decades: study
While headlines may remain fixated on carbon dioxide, there is another accomplice aiding the gas in…
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Grazing animals may be extremely vital to climate change mitigation and maintaining soil carbon health, new study reveals
Since soil contains more carbon than all plants and the atmosphere combined, it is important to ens…
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Discovery of 23,000-year-old footprint fossils reshape the history of early human migration into North America
Until recently, experts believed that early humans arrived in North America around 13,500 to 16,000…
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How a soil additive called biochar can help fight the climate crisis by locking away carbon for centuries
A soil additive called biochar can fight the climate crisis by storing carbon for centuries. Severa…
Catherine Boudreau
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Earth lost forests the size of a football field every five seconds in 2022, 10% more than the previous year
Recent analysis of satellite data revealed that Earth lost more than 41,000 square kilometres of ra…
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World's largest forest ecosystem turns net-emitter from carbon sink due to extreme wildfires
The vast boreal forests of the Northern Hemisphere stretch from Scandinavia through Siberia, Alaska…
PTI
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55% of Indian large rice fields could face yield loss due to high carbon dioxide content in the atmosphere
The study revealed that long-term presence of CO2 impoverishes the soil of phosphorous. Phosphorus,…
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High-powered satellites have made blue-carbon credits a reality. But they still face accuracy and scalability issues.
Credits linked to the capture of carbon in the world's waters offer huge promise, but field researc…
Tasmin Lockwood
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World’s capacity to capture carbon — a crucial climate change mitigation action — is likely to increase sixfold by 2030! But is it enough?
Around 43 million tons of CO2, or 0.1% of global emissions, are being captured using CC today. Esse…
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Why investors pumped $100 million into a startup using microbial fungi to turn soil into a crucial tool in the fight against climate change
The Australian startup Loam Bio is using microbial fungi to improve soil's ability to store carbon,…
Tasmin Lockwood
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Charm Industrial is getting $53 million to turn agricultural waste into oil that can lock away carbon dioxide for 1 million years
The deal is one of the largest to date in the carbon-removal industry and would avoid 112,000 tons …
Catherine Boudreau
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More than 25% of biodiversity is under our feet — but we're destroying it. A biotech startup that's raised $56 million has a plan to help save our soil.
Humans rely on healthy soils for 95% of our food. The women-led startup Trace Genomics uses DNA dat…
Amanda Paule
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Researchers successfully grew plants in Apollo-era lunar soil. Their work could inform future space farmers.
Plants grown in moon dirt showed signs of stress, were smaller, and grew more slowly than their cou…
Paola Rosa-Aquino
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OPINION: Time to scale-up nature-based solutions to forge a low-carbon and climate-resilient future for India
A report by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (I…
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Countries contributing the least to the climate crisis are feeling the worst of its effects
Some of those countries include Bangladesh, India, Philippines, and multiple countries in sub-Sahar…
Sarah Al-Arshani,Kelsey Vlamis
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UN says use of leaded petrol is officially over, a landmark that will prevent more than 1.2 million premature deaths per year
The United Nations Environment Programme estimates the milestone will save $2.45 trillion a year fo…