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Soil microbe transplant could improve tree growth and remove more CO2

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Soil microbe transplant could improve tree growth and remove more CO2

To increase the amount of carbon dioxide that trees can remove from the atmosphere, a tree-planting scheme is testing whether the addition of soil microbes from established forests can improve growth

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Are plans for a carbon-negative power plant too costly to be worth it?

Environment

Are plans for a carbon-negative power plant too costly to be worth it?

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Greenland

Environment

Greenland’s ice sheet is releasing huge amounts of mercury into rivers

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Kimberly Nicholas interview: How to be human in a warming world

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Kimberly Nicholas interview: How to be human in a warming world

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forest fire

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‘Zombie’ fires in Alaska and Canada may be becoming more common

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iceberg

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World's largest iceberg has just broken off an Antarctic ice shelf

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Major 2015 wildfires in central Amazon killed a quarter of vegetation

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Major 2015 wildfires in central Amazon killed a quarter of vegetation

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$What is fracking? (Oil pumps in Bakken Oil Field)$

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Fracking

flooded region

Environment

Climate change meant Hurricane Sandy caused $8 billion more damage

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A mysterious rise in methane levels is sparking global warming fears

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A mysterious rise in methane levels is sparking global warming fears

Levels of the powerful greenhouse gas methane are rising faster than expected with a record increase in 2020, and no one knows why

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Environment

Corals swap in heat-resistant algae to better cope with global warming

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Environment

Climate change is speeding up the degradation of ancient rock art

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Life

I lived under a glacier for two weeks looking for life

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Hitting Paris climate goal could cut sea level rise in half by 2100

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