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“#Protecting natural forest in oil palm plantations crucial for conservation” Patches of protected forest play an important role in helping to conserve endangered species including hornbill birds and dipterocarp trees. Credit: Rob Colgan Forest conservation areas in oil palm plantations play a vital role in storing carbon and boosting rainforest biodiversity, a new study on…
“#Farmers unaware their activities trigger climate jolts” Credit: CIAT/NeilPalmer, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Nigerian maize and poultry farmers and traders’ activities contribute to climate change, but only 14 percent of them realize it, a study has found. Farming communities in Africa should be targeted in climate change education campaigns to develop their understanding of the role…
“#Energy transition 2030: Academies describe path to carbon neutrality in Europe” Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain With the European Green Deal, the European Union has set itself the goal of operating carbon-neutral by 2050. An important element of this commitment is an energy transition away from the use of fossil energy carriers towards generation and use…
“#Indonesia’s Mt Merapi erupts, spewing ash 6 km high” Indonesia’s Mt Merapi is one of the world’s most active volcanoes Indonesia’s Mount Merapi, one of the world’s most active volcanoes, erupted twice on Sunday, sending clouds of grey ash 6,000 metres into the sky, the country’s geological agency said. The two eruptions lasted around seven…
“#Italian glacier covered to slow melting” Huge white tarpaulins help protect the Presena glacier from melting during summer in the Italian Alps A vast tarpaulin unravels, gathering speed as it bounces down the glacier over glinting snow. Summer is here and the alpine ice is being protected from global warming. In northern Italy, the Presena…
“#NASA observes large Saharan dust plume over Atlantic ocean” On June 18, 2020, NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP satellite captured this visible image of the large light brown plume of Saharan dust over the North Atlantic Ocean. The image showed that the dust from Africa’s west coast extended almost to the Lesser Antilles in the eastern North…
“#Human activity on rivers outpaces, compounds effects of climate change” Professor Jim Best led a review of the health and resiliency of the world’s largest river systems and calls for multinational governance and scientific collaboration to confront the mounting effects of human activity and climate change faced by rivers. Credit: Jim Best The livelihoods of…
“#COVID-19 shutdowns will give wildlife only short-term relief from climate change” Wildflowers proliferating in overgrown roadsides during the coronavirus pandemic are providing habitat for pollinators. Credit: Shutterstock There had to be a silver lining to the nearly universal lockdown of the COVID-19 pandemic. One of the small benefits has been a temporarily lighter human footprint…
“#Smart farms of the future: Making bioenergy crops more environmentally friendly” Credit: Joint BioEnergy Institute Farmers have enough worries—between bad weather, rising costs, and shifting market demands—without having to stress about the carbon footprint of their operations. But now a new set of projects by scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), including scientists…
“#Heat may kill more people in US than previously reported: study” Credit: CC0 Public Domain Death records point to hundreds of U.S. deaths from heat each year, but even moderately hot weather may actually be killing thousands. This summer, COVID-19 may make it harder to stay cool. As temperatures rise this summer, a new study…