One World – One Environment – One Network
New research by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) has revealed major benefits of integrated approaches to the climate. The report found that conserving 30 per cent of land could safeguard 500 gigatonnes of carbon...
Trees with a large diameter comprise only a minority of stems yet account for a majority of above-ground carbon storage. These are the findings of a recent study examining Pacific Northwest forests. A recent...
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the Republic of Congo and Indonesia jointly signed the Brazzaville Declaration to prevent the Cuvette Centrale region in the Congo Basin, the world’s largest peatland stores, from unregulated...
A remote field site in the Norwegian mountains is improving our understanding of carbon cycling in high-latitude alpine areas, reports Nancy Bazilchuk from Trondheim. Excess carbon dioxide, emitted by burning fossil fuels like coal...
Periodic oscillations of bottom-water oxygen concentrations can alter benthic communities and carbon storage for decades, reveals a new study published in Science Advances. This is particularly relevant as low oxygen conditions are on the...
California is famous for trees that can grow to heights of 87 metres, some of which are around 2,700 years old. But now 58 million trees could from the four-year drought. California relies on...
Researchers from the Justus-Liebig University in Giessen, Germany, hope to unveil the secrets of fertile Amazon soils. During an expedition to the Amazon rainforest, plant ecologist Prof. Dr. Christof Müller of the Justus-Liebig-University (JLU)...
An 84-metre skyscraper made mostly out of wood may grace the Viennese skyline as early as 2016. But while the project developer praises the environmental benefits of building with wood, others have doubts about...
Grass crops like switchgrass and miscanthus, which provide renewable energy, could also store some of the carbon they pull from the atmosphere in the soil, says a new study. The study, which was conducted...
Forget high-tech, risky climate engineering strategies, such as positioning giant mirrors in space to reduce the amount of sunlight being trapped in the earth’s atmosphere. Cutting back on emissions is the primary way to...
