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The loss of tropical forests is helping drive climate change
Forests are a major front of action in the global fight against climate change, thanks to their unparalleled capacity to absorb and store carbon.
A giant of environmentalism: tiny Slovenia
Slovenia is a country with a high diversity of natural environment gathered in a small area.
Brazil’s Atlantic Forest is a ‘pale shadow of its former self’
This collapse of biodiversity is unprecedented in both history and pre-history and can be directly attributed to human activity.
Planting more trees won’t roll back climate change
If we continue burning coal and oil the way we do today and regret our inaction later, the amounts of greenhouse gas we would need to take out of the atmosphere in order to stabilize the climate would be too
Destroying biodiversity will be our own undoing
We are losing biodiversity at a rate unprecedented in the entire history of the human species. Worse: we are the cause of it.
German scientists can now speed up carbon capture in plants
There is a way that could help plants convert CO2 in a far more effective manner than they currently do, thereby helping us fight climate change.