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carbon dioxide emissions
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Ancient forests took 100,000 years to recover from the last global warming period similar to today – Wyoming fossils reveal what happened
Regan E. Dunn, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences Fifty-six million years ago, Earth’s forests reached…
Planting trees to remove carbon can harm the environment – or protect it: study highlights trade‑offs
Forest, Uganda. Julie Ricard, Unsplash, CC BY Ruben Prütz, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research; Gaurav Ganti, Humboldt…
The latest world climate report is grim, but it’s not the end of the story
Andrew King, The University of Melbourne It’s no secret our planet is heating up. And here’s the evidence:…
Earth is trapping much more heat than climate models forecast – and the rate has doubled in 20 years
NASA, CC BY-NC-ND Steven Sherwood, UNSW Sydney; Benoit Meyssignac, Université de Toulouse, and Thorsten Mauritsen, Stockholm University How…
Earth is heading for 2.7°C warming this century. We may avoid the worst climate scenarios – but the outlook is still dire
Aliraza Khatri’s Photography/Getty Sven Teske, University of Technology Sydney Is climate action a lost cause? The United States…