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Hundreds of millions at risk as river deltas sink faster than rising seas
A new study published in Nature finds that many of the world’s largest river deltas are subsiding more quickly than…
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Africa’s forests have flipped from carbon sink to carbon source
New research has delivered a stark warning about a major change in Africa’s forests. Once a crucial part of the…
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A simple water shift could turn Arctic farmland into a carbon sink
In their natural condition, peatlands rank among the planet’s most important carbon reservoirs. The soil is saturated with water and…
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Melting Antarctic ice may weaken a major carbon sink
A new study published in Nature Geoscience shows that changes in the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) closely followed shifts…
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