Tag: Climate
Protecting forests slows climate change more than mass-planting trees
Between a death and a burial was hardly the best time to show up in a remote village in Madagascar to make a pitch for forest protection. Bad timing, however, turned out to be the easy problem.
This forest was the first one that botanist Armand Randrianasolo had tried to protect. He’s the first native of Madagascar to become a Ph.D. taxonomist at Missouri Botanical Garden, or MBG, in St. Louis. So he was picked to join a 2002 scouting
Is There No Way Out of the Climate Crisis?
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Why planting tons of trees isn’t enough to solve climate change
Trees are symbols of hope, life and transformation. They’re also increasingly touted as a straightforward, relatively inexpensive, ready-for-prime-time solution to climate change.
When it comes to removing human-caused emissions of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide from Earth’s atmosphere, trees are a big help. Through photosynthesis, trees pull the gas out of the air to help grow their leaves, branches and roots. Forest soils can also sequester vast reservoirs of carbon.
Earth holds, by one estimate, as many as 3 trillion
How climate change will widen Europe’s divides – POLITICO
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This is the first chapter in The Road to COP26 series.
Climate change isn’t just coming for Europe. It’s coming for the European Union.
Europe’s north will struggle with floods and fires, even with warming at the lowest end of expectations — the Paris Agreement limits of 1.5 or 2 degrees above the pre-industrial global average. But the south will be hammered by drought, urban heat and agricultural decline, driving a wedge
Dispossessed, Again: Climate Change Hits Native Americans Especially Hard
In Chefornak, a Yu’pik village near the western coast of Alaska, the water is getting closer.
The thick ground, once frozen solid, is thawing. The village preschool, its blue paint peeling, sits precariously on wooden stilts in spongy marsh between a river and a creek. Storms are growing stronger. At high tide these days, water rises under the building, sometimes keeping out the children, ages 3 to 5. The shifting ground has warped the floor, making it hard to close
Tasked to Fight Climate Change, a Secretive U.N. Agency Does the Opposite
LONDON — During a contentious meeting over proposed climate regulations last fall, a Saudi diplomat to the obscure but powerful International Maritime Organization switched on his microphone to make an angry complaint: One of his colleagues was revealing the proceedings on Twitter as they happened.
It was a breach of the secrecy at the heart of the I.M.O., a clubby United Nations agency on the banks of the Thames that regulates international shipping and is charged with reducing emissions in
Gina McCarthy führt Biden Climate Push an
WASHINGTON – Gina McCarthy arbeitete sechs oder sieben Tage die Woche, 12 bis 14 Stunden am Tag, um Amerikas erste wirkliche Anstrengungen zur Bekämpfung des Klimawandels zu unternehmen, eine Reihe von Vorschriften aus der Obama-Ära, die die Verschmutzung durch die Auspuffrohre und Schornsteine der Nation verringern und die Entwöhnung der USA verhindern würden Weltweit größte Volkswirtschaft aus fossilen Brennstoffen.
Dann hat die Regierung von Donald J. Trump die Arbeit des Chefs der Umweltschutzbehörde von Präsident Barack Obama vernichtet, bevor irgendetwas