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					<title>South Africa’s new gold rush: Big promises, closed books in new carbon frontier</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/09/south-africas-new-gold-rush-big-promises-closed-books-in-new-carbon-frontier/</link>
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					<pubDate>03 Sep 2026 16:10:58 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Leonie Joubert]]>
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						<![CDATA[John Cannon]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, South Africa, and Southern Africa]]>
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							<![CDATA[carbon, Carbon Credits, Carbon Dioxide, Carbon Market, Climate Change, Conservation Solutions, Environment, Forest Carbon, Landscape Restoration, Restoration, Soil Carbon, and Solutions]]>
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							<![CDATA[This is the third article in Mongabay&#8217;s three-part investigation of spekboom-led ecosystem restoration in South Africa. This is part of an award-winning collaboration between independent science writer Leonie Joubert, the Stellenbosch University School for Climate Studies, and the Henry Nxumalo Foundation which supports investigative journalism in Africa. Read parts one and two. GQEBERHA, South Africa [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[This is the third article in Mongabay&#8217;s three-part investigation of spekboom-led ecosystem restoration in South Africa. This is part of an award-winning collaboration between independent science writer Leonie Joubert, the Stellenbosch University School for Climate Studies, and the Henry Nxumalo Foundation which supports investigative journalism in Africa. Read parts one and two. GQEBERHA, South Africa — Browsed. Heavily browsed. Knackered. This farm camp is well on the knackered side of the degradation scale, threadbare after decades of heavy livestock pressure. But the single shrub at Nick Hamp-Adam’s feet may help change that. It just needs a second chance. This young spekboom plant (Portulacaria afra) is more stocky shrub than rooted cutting. It’s had more time than usual in the nursery to bulk up ahead of being released into the wild. But for the moment, it&#8217;s stricken on its side, roots exposed. Hamp-Adams, general manager for Return to Thicket, one of the smaller restoration projects in this nook of South Africa’s Eastern Cape province, is about to set things right. He sinks to his knees, finds a hand-sized stone and begins reopening the original planting hole. “Kudu, most likely …&#8221; His breath is metered by his efforts with the digging tool. “… came through …” Strike. “… grabbed it …” Strike. “… probably wasn&#8217;t planted deep enough.” Strike. He’s gentle when he rights the plant, taking care as he tamps the soil around its roots. Tough plants, generally. Don’t need much coddling. Except during planting. Treat them like babies during planting.&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/09/south-africas-new-gold-rush-big-promises-closed-books-in-new-carbon-frontier/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Nickel expansion puts Indonesia’s biodiversity goals under pressure, study finds</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/08/nickel-expansion-puts-indonesias-biodiversity-goals-under-pressure-study-finds/</link>
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					<pubDate>12 Aug 2026 09:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Hans Nicholas Jong]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Hans Nicholas Jong]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Indonesia, Maluku, North Maluku, Southeast Asia, and Sulawesi]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[30x30 conservation target, Biodiversity, Biodiversity Hotspots, Business, Carbon Dioxide, Carbon Emissions, Climate Change, Conservation, Corporate Environmental Transgressors, Corporations, Deep Sea Mining, Deforestation, Drivers Of Deforestation, Electric Cars, Energy Transition, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Industry, Marine Conservation, Mining, Natural Resources, Pollution, Protected Areas, Transportation, Tropical Deforestation, and Water Pollution]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — Indonesia’s nickel boom is colliding with its efforts to protect biodiversity and reduce emissions from forests and other land uses. A new study warns that meeting growing global nickel demand could increasingly put some of the world’s most important ecosystems at risk. A study published in Nature Ecology &#38; Evolution focuses on the [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — Indonesia’s nickel boom is colliding with its efforts to protect biodiversity and reduce emissions from forests and other land uses. A new study warns that meeting growing global nickel demand could increasingly put some of the world’s most important ecosystems at risk. A study published in Nature Ecology &amp; Evolution focuses on the trade-offs between meeting future nickel demand and protecting areas important for biodiversity and carbon storage. The researchers found that 44% to 49% of projected nickel demand between 2025 and 2050 could be met by mines located in the world’s top 10% of terrestrial areas for biodiversity and carbon conservation. “Nickel is in everything from steel in infrastructure to the pots and pans in our kitchens, and demand is surging for clean energy especially to make batteries for electric vehicles,” said lead author Jayden Hyman of the University of Queensland’s School of the Environment in a press release. “But the decisions being made now about where to source nickel could lock in impacts for decades in some of Earth’s most biodiverse and carbon-rich ecosystems.” The findings pose a particular challenge for Indonesia, the world’s largest nickel producer and the source of more than half of global supply. The researchers project that Indonesia could account for as much as 74% of global nickel production by 2040 as demand continues to grow. The country is also committed to expanding biodiversity conservation. Indonesia’s Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan (IBSAP) 2025-2045 is aligned with the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, including&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/08/nickel-expansion-puts-indonesias-biodiversity-goals-under-pressure-study-finds/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-326001</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Carbon markets alone won’t keep Southeast Asia’s forests standing, study says</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/08/carbon-markets-alone-wont-keep-southeast-asias-forests-standing-study-says/</link>
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					<pubDate>04 Aug 2026 02:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Carolyn Cowan]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Isabel Esterman]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, and Southeast Asia]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[agribusiness, Biodiversity, Business, Carbon Credits, Carbon Dioxide, Carbon Market, Carbon Sequestration, Conservation, Conservation Finance, Deforestation, Ecosystems, Finance, Forest Carbon, Forestry, Forests, Funding, Mitigation, Rainforests, Research, Secondary Forests, Solutions, Sustainable Forest Management, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[Lush, leafy and luxuriantly diverse, tropical forests are home to an immense array of plants, animals and fungi. They also provide humanity with water, clean air and flood protection, and lock vast amounts of carbon in their tree trunks, roots and soils. Yet, forest conservation often loses out to extractive industries and agribusiness when valued [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Lush, leafy and luxuriantly diverse, tropical forests are home to an immense array of plants, animals and fungi. They also provide humanity with water, clean air and flood protection, and lock vast amounts of carbon in their tree trunks, roots and soils. Yet, forest conservation often loses out to extractive industries and agribusiness when valued through a purely economic lens. As a result, forests across the planet continue to be cleared in pursuit of financial profits. Across Southeast Asia alone, nearly 68 million hectares (168 million acres) of forest was lost between 2001 and 2023, much of it cleared to make way for logging, plantations and agriculture, according to researchers. However, new research indicates “massive and untapped” conservation potential remains within commercial concessions across the region. The study, published in Nature Communications, analyzed satellite data from 3,754 logging, oil palm, timber and rubber plantation concessions across four countries: Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar. Roughly 42 million hectares (104 million acres) of intact forest was identified inside these concessions — an area larger than the entire country of Malaysia. Losing these forests could lead to emissions in the range of 1.2 gigatons of carbon dioxide over the next three decades, the study says, equivalent to 20% of all industrial carbon dioxide emissions across all 11 ASEAN countries between 2000 and 2023. Protection of forests inside production landscapes, therefore, presents a significant opportunity for conservation, the study authors say, if concession holders could be incentivized to switch from converting land to protecting it.&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/08/carbon-markets-alone-wont-keep-southeast-asias-forests-standing-study-says/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Indonesia shows elevated fire hotspot activity in 2026 as super El Niño threat looms</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/07/indonesia-shows-elevated-fire-hotspot-activity-in-2026-as-super-el-nino-threat-looms/</link>
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					<pubDate>29 Jul 2026 15:06:39 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Hans Nicholas JongIrfan Maulana]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Hans Nicholas Jong]]>
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							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Aceh, Asia, Indonesia, Papua, Southeast Asia, and Sumatra]]>
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							<![CDATA[Air Pollution, Carbon Dioxide, Carbon Emissions, Climate Change, Disasters, Ecosystems, Extreme Weather, Fires, Forests, Global Environmental Crisis, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Peatlands, Pollution, Rainforests, Tropical Forests, and Wetlands]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — Indonesia has recorded more fire hotspot activity by late July 2026 than at the same point in any previous year, including during the devastating fire seasons of 2019 and 2023, according to new data. Data from FireWatch, a new satellite monitoring platform developed by the forest monitoring platform Nusantara Atlas, offers the clearest [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — Indonesia has recorded more fire hotspot activity by late July 2026 than at the same point in any previous year, including during the devastating fire seasons of 2019 and 2023, according to new data. Data from FireWatch, a new satellite monitoring platform developed by the forest monitoring platform Nusantara Atlas, offers the clearest picture yet of where the country is burning, say scientists. It has raised fresh concerns as Indonesia heads into the months of the year when wildfires historically intensify. As of July 27, FireWatch detected more than 96,000 fire hotspots across Indonesia — more than at the same point in any previous year monitored by the platform. By comparison, about 88,000 hotspots had been detected by late July 2019 and roughly 58,000 during the same period in 2023. Hotspot comparison between 2026, 2023 and 2019. Image courtesy of FireWatch. Those two years produced Indonesia&#8217;s most destructive fire seasons in the past 10 years, burning more than 2.6 million hectares (6.4 million acres) and 1.7 million hectares (4.2 million acres), respectively, according to data from FireWatch. FireWatch estimates that approximately 103,000 hectares (255,000 acres) burned nationwide during the first half of 2026. Burned area comparison between 2026, 2023 and 2019. Image courtesy of FireWatch. While that remains far below the area burned in 2019, Indonesia has yet to enter the period when fire activity historically accelerates. Burning typically increases in August before peaking in September and October. The unusually high hotspot activity in 2026 comes as forecasters&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/07/indonesia-shows-elevated-fire-hotspot-activity-in-2026-as-super-el-nino-threat-looms/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-324772</doi>				</item>
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					<title>How carbon markets can succeed &#038; also serve Global South communities (commentary)</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/07/how-carbon-markets-can-succeed-also-serve-global-south-communities-commentary/</link>
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					<pubDate>27 Jul 2026 21:09:33 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Pati Ruiz Corzo]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Erik Hoffner]]>
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							<![CDATA[Global, Mexico, and North America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Adaptation To Climate Change, Avoided Deforestation, Business, Carbon Dioxide, Carbon Emissions, Carbon Market, Carbon Sequestration, Certification, Climate, Climate Change, climate finance, Commentary, Conservation, Conservation Finance, Environment, Finance, Forest Carbon, forest degradation, Forests, Governance, Indigenous Peoples, Mitigation, Nature-based climate solutions, Rainforests, Solutions, Temperate Forests, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[Carbon markets were designed around the compelling premise that private finance could flow where forests are most at risk, rewarding the communities and landowners who protect them while helping companies take responsibility for their emissions. For anyone working in climate or conservation, the underlying logic still holds. The world&#8217;s forests provide essential ecosystem services, capture [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Carbon markets were designed around the compelling premise that private finance could flow where forests are most at risk, rewarding the communities and landowners who protect them while helping companies take responsibility for their emissions. For anyone working in climate or conservation, the underlying logic still holds. The world&#8217;s forests provide essential ecosystem services, capture and store huge amounts of carbon dioxide, face enormous pressure, and need sustained economic incentives if they are to survive. So why has the voluntary carbon market so consistently fallen short of this promise? Over the past decade, the sector has faced mounting evidence that many carbon credits, particularly those issued for forest conservation in the Global South, have not delivered the climate outcomes they claimed. There have been well-documented cases of social harm to Indigenous and local communities, scientific analysis has repeatedly found that the methodologies used to calculate emissions reductions were prone to significant overestimation, and trust in the market, among both buyers and civil society, has been eroded. Military macaws (Ara militaris) flying over a forest in the Sierra Gorda. They are one of the many iconic and endangered species that call the forests of the Sierra Gorda home. Image courtesy of Roberto Pedraza Ruiz / Grupo Ecológico Sierra Gorda. However, this is not a reason to abandon the idea of climate finance for nature. It is a reason to understand what has gone wrong, and to ask what a more inclusive, just, and transparent model can look like. What hasn’t worked&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/07/how-carbon-markets-can-succeed-also-serve-global-south-communities-commentary/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-324619</doi>				</item>
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					<title>‘Ancient’ carbon venting from lakes in the Congo Basin peatlands: Study</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/03/ancient-carbon-venting-from-lakes-in-the-congo-basin-peatlands-study/</link>
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					<pubDate>31 Mar 2026 13:35:06 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[John Cannon]]>
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						<![CDATA[Malavikavyawahare]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Central Africa, Congo Basin, and Democratic Republic Of Congo]]>
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							<![CDATA[carbon, Carbon Dioxide, Climate, Conservation, Forest Carbon, Forests, Lakes, Peatlands, Research, and Soil Carbon]]>
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							<![CDATA[Across the central Congo Basin lies a bastion of carbon that scientists are just beginning to understand. First mapped only about a decade ago, the Cuvette Centrale peatlands are the size of England and hold some 30 billion metric tons of carbon. Over thousands of years, the swampy conditions in this part of Central Africa [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Across the central Congo Basin lies a bastion of carbon that scientists are just beginning to understand. First mapped only about a decade ago, the Cuvette Centrale peatlands are the size of England and hold some 30 billion metric tons of carbon. Over thousands of years, the swampy conditions in this part of Central Africa have slowed the decay of plant matter falling from the forest above. The process leads to the development of peat, and the peatlands in the Congo Basin are the largest known repository in the tropics. Across the millennia, enormous amounts of carbon have built up and been stashed away inside the peat. Recent research now suggests that some of that very old carbon may be returning to the atmosphere through lakes that form amid peatlands — similar to the way smoke escapes a fireplace through a chimney, according to the authors. It’s a finding that opens new questions about how we account for the cycling of carbon through these ecosystems and the resulting influence on climate change. Water draining forested landscapes meets water draining savanna landscapes at this confluence between the Fimi and Kasaï rivers in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The reddish color of the Kasaï River originates from the iron oxides associated with clays of suspended sediments transported by the river, which are more predominant in savanna compared to forest. The much darker color of the Fimi River, which drains Lake Mai Ndombe, stems from organic materials that leach from leaves and soils&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/03/ancient-carbon-venting-from-lakes-in-the-congo-basin-peatlands-study/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-316575</doi>				</item>
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					<title>New study assesses geoengineering marine ecosystem risks, knowledge gaps</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/02/new-study-assesses-geoengineering-marine-ecosystem-risks-knowledge-gaps/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/02/new-study-assesses-geoengineering-marine-ecosystem-risks-knowledge-gaps/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>19 Feb 2026 15:22:02 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Ruth Kamnitzer]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Glenn Scherer]]>
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							<![CDATA[Planetary Boundaries]]>
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							<![CDATA[Global]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[algae, carbon, Carbon Dioxide, Carbon Emissions, Carbon Sequestration, Climate, Climate Change, Conservation, Ecosystems, Environment, Fish, Fisheries, food security, Geoengineering, Marine, Marine Conservation, Nutrient Pollution, Oceans, Regulations, Research, Technology, and Water Pollution]]>
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							<![CDATA[Science has made it clear: The prospect of heat waves without end, increasingly destructive floods, relentless drought, rapidly rising sea levels, and the risk of “point of no return” tipping points require humanity to swiftly stop burning fossil fuels to avoid catastrophe. But with political will and action lagging, some researchers say now is the [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Science has made it clear: The prospect of heat waves without end, increasingly destructive floods, relentless drought, rapidly rising sea levels, and the risk of “point of no return” tipping points require humanity to swiftly stop burning fossil fuels to avoid catastrophe. But with political will and action lagging, some researchers say now is the time to evaluate the safety and feasibility of geoengineering. These are a suite of proposed technologies that could potentially delay the worst warming or sequester carbon, thus buying civilization time as it struggles to slash fossil fuel emissions. One place scientists are looking for geoengineering solutions is the world’s oceans, which store vast amounts of carbon, including about a quarter of anthropogenic emissions. Some researchers are especially interested in a set of geoengineering methods collectively dubbed marine carbon dioxide storage (mCDR). Still others are looking at ways to artificially cool the Earth by reflecting sunlight into space, especially above oceans. One major concern with all these untried technologies is that, if widely implemented, they could profoundly impact marine ecosystems, says Kelsey Roberts, a research associate at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth in the U.S. In a recent Reviews of Geophysics paper, Roberts and co-authors examined eight geoengineering interventions most likely to directly impact marine ecosystems, identifying knowledge gaps and risks. “If we implement some of these insane science fiction-sounding technologies, what would happen to the fish? What would happen to the megafauna … and particularly, [what’s] the importance for global food security?” Roberts asks. Illustration&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/02/new-study-assesses-geoengineering-marine-ecosystem-risks-knowledge-gaps/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-314457</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Mapping underground fungal networks: Interview with SPUN’s Toby Kiers</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/02/mapping-underground-fungal-networks-interview-with-spuns-toby-kiers/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/02/mapping-underground-fungal-networks-interview-with-spuns-toby-kiers/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>11 Feb 2026 10:16:46 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Abhishyant Kidangoor]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Sarahengel]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Central America, East Asia, Global, Latin America, Mongolia, and Panama]]>
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							<![CDATA[Biodiversity, Biodiversity Hotspots, carbon, Carbon Dioxide, Carbon Sequestration, Climate, Conservation, Ecosystems, Environment, Fungi, Interviews, Plants, Research, Soil Carbon, Symbiotic Relationships, Technology, and Water]]>
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							<![CDATA[All around her, scientists had their eyes set on studying flora and fauna that lived aboveground. But Toby Kiers’s interest always lay in the oft-overlooked biodiversity that existed beneath it. It was the mysterious nature of the vast mycorrhizal fungal networks that so fascinated Kiers. “It’s so alive, but humble and quiet,” Kiers, an evolutionary [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[All around her, scientists had their eyes set on studying flora and fauna that lived aboveground. But Toby Kiers’s interest always lay in the oft-overlooked biodiversity that existed beneath it. It was the mysterious nature of the vast mycorrhizal fungal networks that so fascinated Kiers. “It’s so alive, but humble and quiet,” Kiers, an evolutionary biologist and co-founder of the Society for the Protection of Underground Networks (SPUN), an organization that’s working to map mycorrhizal fungi around the world, told Mongabay in a video interview. Mycorrhizal fungi, found in almost every soil system on the planet, have a crucial symbiotic relationship with plants. They live on plant roots and extract nitrogen, phosphorus and water from the soil for the plants. The plants, in return, feed carbon dioxide absorbed during photosynthesis to the fungi, which need it for their growth. As a result, a massive amount of CO2 — more than 13 billion metric tons, according to a 2023 study — moves from plants to these fungal networks, making them a crucial tool in carbon sequestration. But there’s more to it than meets the eye. The movement of nutrients and carbon between plants and fungal networks is a calculated barter system in which the fungal networks allocate nutrients for plants based on how much they get in return. “We still don’t understand how they are doing it,” Kiers said. “It’s almost like watching the best poker players in the world play a game of poker.” To understand more about these complicated&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/02/mapping-underground-fungal-networks-interview-with-spuns-toby-kiers/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-314068</doi>				</item>
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					<title>‘Blew us away’: Researchers find nitrogen boost spurs faster tropical forest growth</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/01/blew-us-away-researchers-find-nitrogen-boost-spurs-faster-tropical-forest-growth/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/01/blew-us-away-researchers-find-nitrogen-boost-spurs-faster-tropical-forest-growth/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>30 Jan 2026 17:10:05 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Ruth Kamnitzer]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Central America, Global, Latin America, and Tropics]]>
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							<![CDATA[Biodiversity, carbon, Carbon Dioxide, Carbon Sequestration, Conservation, Ecosystems, Environment, Forest Carbon, Forests, Nitrogen Cycle, Reforestation, Research, Restoration, Soil Carbon, Tropical Conservation Science, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[Regenerating tropical forests pull carbon dioxide from the air, but a lack of nitrogen in the soil could slow this process, a new Nature Communications study has found. Restoring tropical forests is widely seen as one of the most important ways to mitigate climate change, but scientists still don’t fully understand how nutrient availability may [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Regenerating tropical forests pull carbon dioxide from the air, but a lack of nitrogen in the soil could slow this process, a new Nature Communications study has found. Restoring tropical forests is widely seen as one of the most important ways to mitigate climate change, but scientists still don’t fully understand how nutrient availability may constrain tree growth. That means we can’t really predict how quickly regenerating forests will accumulate carbon. Both nitrogen and phosphorus are critical for plant growth, but when forested land is cleared, nitrogen in disturbed soils can evaporate or wash away. Phosphorus is also thought to be limited in many tropical soils. Now, a large-scale experiment in Panama finds that a lack of nitrogen in soil limits the early stages of tropical forest regrowth. When researchers added nitrogen to recently cleared land, the trees grew nearly twice as fast. Recovering forest in Panama. Image by Wenguang Tang. The finding “totally blew us away” says study author Sarah Batterman, an ecologist at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies and associate professor at the University of Leeds. “We didn&#8217;t realize that nitrogen could be that important in tropical forests, and the fact that the forest grew back twice as fast in the first decade was just kind of amazing.” The study took place within the Panama Canal Watershed in lowland tropical forest. To understand the impact of nutrient availability on tree growth, the researchers applied nitrogen and phosphorus, alone or in combination, to forest plots at different stages&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/01/blew-us-away-researchers-find-nitrogen-boost-spurs-faster-tropical-forest-growth/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-313530</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Hidden heroes: Australian tree bark microbes consume greenhouse &#038; toxic gases</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/01/hidden-heroes-australian-tree-bark-microbes-consume-greenhouse-toxic-gases/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/01/hidden-heroes-australian-tree-bark-microbes-consume-greenhouse-toxic-gases/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>16 Jan 2026 16:31:46 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Ruth Kamnitzer]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Glenn Scherer]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Planetary Boundaries]]>
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											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Australia and Global]]>
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							<![CDATA[Carbon Dioxide, Carbon Sequestration, Climate, Climate Change, Conservation, Ecosystems, Environment, Forest Carbon, Forests, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Health, Methane, Natural Gas, Pollution, Reforestation, Research, and Trees]]>
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							<![CDATA[Microbes living in tree bark consume vast amounts of climate-related and toxic gases, according to new research published Jan. 8 in Science. In the past, tree bark was considered little more than an inert protective covering for trees and unlikely to support significant microbial life. But over the last decade, research has found that microbes [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Microbes living in tree bark consume vast amounts of climate-related and toxic gases, according to new research published Jan. 8 in Science. In the past, tree bark was considered little more than an inert protective covering for trees and unlikely to support significant microbial life. But over the last decade, research has found that microbes not only thrive in tree bark, but they consume methane, a phenomenon significant on a global scale. This knowledge caused scientists at Australia’s Monash and Southern Cross universities to wonder if microbial communities living in tree bark might also be utilizing and absorbing other ubiquitous atmospheric gases, a line of reasoning that turned out to be “spot on,” says Pok Man Leung, a research fellow at Monash University and the study’s co-lead author. The research team sampled the bark of eight common Australian trees across different biomes in subtropical eastern Australia. They then used metagenetics along with laboratory and field-based measurements of gas fluxes to determine what kinds of microbes lived in the bark, and what they were doing. Melaleuca wetland forest on the Tweed Coast of Australia, a hotspot for tree bark microbial life. Image courtesy of Luke Jeffrey/Southern Cross University. They found that the trees’ bark was brimming with microbes that digest methane, hydrogen, carbon monoxide and volatile organic compounds (VOCs). Methane is at least 20 times more potent as carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas, while hydrogen and carbon monoxide are considered indirect greenhouse gases. Carbon monoxide and VOCs are both harmful&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/01/hidden-heroes-australian-tree-bark-microbes-consume-greenhouse-toxic-gases/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-312991</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Ditches on peatland oil palm plantations are an overlooked source of methane: Study</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/ditches-on-peatland-oil-palm-plantations-are-an-overlooked-source-of-methane-study/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/ditches-on-peatland-oil-palm-plantations-are-an-overlooked-source-of-methane-study/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>30 Dec 2025 14:18:37 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[John Cannon]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Isabel Esterman]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Borneo, Malaysia, Southeast Asia, and Tropics]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agriculture, carbon, Carbon Dioxide, Carbon Emissions, Climate Change, Conservation, Environment, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Methane, Peatlands, Politics, Research, Soil Carbon, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[The water-filled ditches that laced through the oil palm plantation in Sarawak, a Malaysian state on the island of Borneo, nagged at Kuno Kasak when he saw them in 2022. He knew that these canals, used to draw water out of spongy peatlands to make them suitable for agriculture, had been shown to be sources [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The water-filled ditches that laced through the oil palm plantation in Sarawak, a Malaysian state on the island of Borneo, nagged at Kuno Kasak when he saw them in 2022. He knew that these canals, used to draw water out of spongy peatlands to make them suitable for agriculture, had been shown to be sources of methane. But just how much remains an open question, with too few data points to make estimates with certainty. Though methane dissipates more quickly in the atmosphere than CO2, it’s more than 20 times more effective at trapping heat. It’s also responsible for nearly a third of the global temperature rise since the industrial revolution, making accurate methane accounting imperative for addressing climate change. Kasak, a professor of environmental technology at Estonia’s University of Tartu, is the lead author of a recent study in which he and his colleagues report that methane from these drainage canals accounted for as much as 10% of the total greenhouse gases from a given hectare of the oil palm plantations they studied. At the same time, the ditches covered no more than 4% of the plantations’ total area. “This is significant because it means that previous estimates of emissions from drained peatlands likely underestimate the contribution from ditches, which are often ignored in global carbon accounting,” Kasak told Mongabay in an email. They also found that the ditches were sources of CO2. One of the oil palm plantations where Kasak and his colleagues sampled emissions from drainage ditches.&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/ditches-on-peatland-oil-palm-plantations-are-an-overlooked-source-of-methane-study/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-312273</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Boom in burning waste for fuel could put human health and environment at risk</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/boom-in-burning-waste-for-fuel-puts-human-health-and-environment-at-risk/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/boom-in-burning-waste-for-fuel-puts-human-health-and-environment-at-risk/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>10 Dec 2025 15:23:16 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Sean Mowbray]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Glenn Scherer]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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											<reporting-project>
							<![CDATA[Planetary Boundaries]]>
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											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Asia, Australia, Europe, Global, India, Indonesia, Jakarta, Myanmar, North America, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and United States]]>
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							<![CDATA[Bioenergy, carbon, Carbon Dioxide, Carbon Emissions, Climate, Climate Change, Conservation, Energy, Environment, Fires, Fossil Fuels, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Health, Methane, Planetary Health, Plastic, Pollution, Public Health, and Waste]]>
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							<![CDATA[As the world desperately searches for a way out of its global climate change and plastic pollution crises, nations are increasingly turning to burning municipal waste to make fuel as a solution to both problems. One approach, dubbed refuse-derived fuel (RDF), processes, packages and burns conglomerated combustible organic waste with large amounts of potentially hazardous [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[As the world desperately searches for a way out of its global climate change and plastic pollution crises, nations are increasingly turning to burning municipal waste to make fuel as a solution to both problems. One approach, dubbed refuse-derived fuel (RDF), processes, packages and burns conglomerated combustible organic waste with large amounts of potentially hazardous plastics in order to make fuel to produce heat or electricity. RDF is an escalating global trend causing concern among environmental experts due to its potential climate, pollution and human health impacts. RDF is typically made up of around 50% plastic waste, which is combined with other combustible materials like wood, cardboard and textiles. The mixed waste is processed via drying and shredding, with the resulting materials then burned in so-called waste-to-energy incinerators, cement kilns, or other industrial facilities such as paper mills. Proponents argue that burning waste is an effective way to simultaneously reduce landfilling and plastic pollution, while cutting greenhouse gas emissions, as it’s a substitute for fossil fuels. Advocates have even marketed RDF as a circular economy solution. Critics aren’t convinced. They say that incinerating RDFs, with their high plastic content, is akin to swapping out one dirty fuel source for another, resulting in the release of significant greenhouse gases, along with harmful particulate and chemical pollutants, including dioxins, a potential byproduct of burning plastics. “Our concerns about [RDF] relate to the fact that plastic consists of polymers that are mixed with many, many different chemicals,” says Lee Bell, technical and policy&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/boom-in-burning-waste-for-fuel-puts-human-health-and-environment-at-risk/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-311039</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Scientists push for greater climate role for Latin America’s overlooked ecosystems</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/scientists-push-for-greater-climate-role-for-latin-americas-overlooked-ecosystems/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/scientists-push-for-greater-climate-role-for-latin-americas-overlooked-ecosystems/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>04 Dec 2025 15:55:21 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Antonio José Paz Cardona]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Alexandra Popescu]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
										<enclosure url="https://imgs.mongabay.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2025/12/04155121/Turberas_Leslie-6-768x512.jpg" type="image/jpeg" />
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							<![CDATA[Latin America and South America]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Carbon Dioxide, Carbon Sequestration, Climate, Climate Change, Ecosystems, Mangroves, Peatlands, Tropical Forests, and Wetlands]]>
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							<![CDATA[Efforts to mitigate the impacts of climate change have focused largely on the protection of tropical forests like the Amazon Rainforest, important carbon sinks that can store between 60 and 230 metric tons of carbon per hectare. But elsewhere in Latin America, other ecosystems have been overlooked by international decision-makers, despite science recognizing their key [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Efforts to mitigate the impacts of climate change have focused largely on the protection of tropical forests like the Amazon Rainforest, important carbon sinks that can store between 60 and 230 metric tons of carbon per hectare. But elsewhere in Latin America, other ecosystems have been overlooked by international decision-makers, despite science recognizing their key role in preventing greenhouse gas emissions and the fact that many of them store even more carbon, hectare for hectare, than tropical forests. A team from Mongabay Latam traveled to several countries in the region to draw attention to these forgotten land- and seascapes: páramos, coastal wetlands, peatlands, mangroves and seagrass meadows — key ecosystems and invaluable carbon deposits. These six stories show how communities, organizations and scientists are coming together to preserve and study these vital ecosystems, whose potential in the fight against climate change remains underappreciated. The IOV team surveying a Thalassia seagrass meadow. Image courtesy of Mayré Jiménez. Putting a spotlight on páramos, coastal wetlands and seagrasses In the fight against climate change, every ecosystem counts. Preventing carbon dioxide, methane and other greenhouse gas emissions from entering the atmosphere is crucial to preventing, or at least containing and limiting, global warming. The Paris Agreement, adopted in 2015, seeks to limit the global temperature rise to less than 2° Celsius (3.6° Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial levels, ideally capping it at 1.5°C (2.7°F). However, the world remains far off this target. Countries have presented their emissions reduction plans, known as their nationally determined contributions (NDCs),&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/scientists-push-for-greater-climate-role-for-latin-americas-overlooked-ecosystems/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-310625</doi>				</item>
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					<title>The valuable peatlands of Peru’s Pastaza River Fan: one of the world’s largest carbon reservoirs</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/the-valuable-peatlands-of-perus-pastaza-river-fan-one-of-the-worlds-largest-carbon-reservoirs/</link>
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					<pubDate>01 Dec 2025 10:24:39 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Leslie Moreno Custodio]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Alexandra Popescu]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Latin America, Peru, and South America]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[carbon, Carbon Dioxide, Climate Change, Community-based Conservation, Conservation, Ecosystems, Peatlands, and Research]]>
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							<![CDATA[On the banks of the Pastaza River, in Peru’s northern Datem del Marañón province, Kietre Gonzales remembers just how close his childhood home was to the aguajales, the swampy palm forests so common in this part of the Peruvian Amazon. But over time, the landscape began to change. The aguajes (Mauritia flexuosa), the palms that [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[On the banks of the Pastaza River, in Peru’s northern Datem del Marañón province, Kietre Gonzales remembers just how close his childhood home was to the aguajales, the swampy palm forests so common in this part of the Peruvian Amazon. But over time, the landscape began to change. The aguajes (Mauritia flexuosa), the palms that bear the wine-red fruit of the same name, started to be cut down. “Fifteen years ago, we ourselves were destroying them. We used to cut down the aguaje palm to harvest its fruit, leaving empty spaces where other kinds of weeds would grow. We started cutting them down because there were no initiatives to protect them,” says Gonzales, a member of the Recreo Native Community, part of the Kichua Indigenous people. At the foot of a tree along the riverbank, Gonzales looks up at the broad leaves of the aguaje palms rising above the distant vegetation, where the bright green of the community sports field ends beneath a clear sky and a scorching sun that makes the skin glisten. A rooster crows, breaking his contemplation of the landscape. “Now we understand that we must not cut down the trees of the Amazon,” he says. The aguajal peat bogs that still survive in this part of the Amazon are part of the Pastaza River Fan Wetland Complex, one of the deepest peatland systems in the world — the third-deepest tropical peatland, at more than 8.1 meters (26.6 feet), after Central Kalimantan in Indonesian Borneo and the&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/the-valuable-peatlands-of-perus-pastaza-river-fan-one-of-the-worlds-largest-carbon-reservoirs/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-310396</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Afro-descendant territories slash deforestation, lock in carbon, study shows</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/11/afro-descendant-territories-slash-deforestation-lock-in-carbon-study-shows/</link>
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					<pubDate>28 Nov 2025 10:02:23 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Gonzalo Ortuño López]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Latin America, South America, and Suriname]]>
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							<![CDATA[carbon, Carbon Dioxide, Community-based Conservation, Conservation, Deforestation, Environment, Protected Areas, and Traditional People]]>
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							<![CDATA[Afro-descendant peoples in Latin America have historically been guardians of nature, but their role could be more important than previously estimated. New research carried out in four Amazonian countries — Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador and Suriname — has revealed that their territories have achieved lower levels of deforestation and greater conservation of biodiversity than other protected [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Afro-descendant peoples in Latin America have historically been guardians of nature, but their role could be more important than previously estimated. New research carried out in four Amazonian countries — Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador and Suriname — has revealed that their territories have achieved lower levels of deforestation and greater conservation of biodiversity than other protected areas. The study, funded by Conservation International and published in the journal Communications Earth &amp; Environment, is the first to use statistics, georeferenced information and historical context to measure the contributions of Afro-descendant populations to conservation. Afro-descendant people were taken as slaves from Africa to Latin America, where many fled into the wilderness in search of freedom. One of the study’s most significant findings is the sustained reduction of deforestation in Afro-descendant lands. Here the study found that forest loss was lower, depending on location, than in protected areas. For example, deforestation rates in Afro-descendant lands were 29% lower when the lands were inside protected areas, 36% lower when they were outside protected areas, and 55% lower when they were on the edge of these areas. “It confirms that we are the guardians of these Amazonian lands; we have been doing this sustainably for over 400 years,” says Hugo Jabini, Saramaka Maroon leader and winner of the 2009 Goldman Prize for defending Afro-descendant rights in Suriname. What’s more, Afro-descendant territories are vital for tropical biodiversity: the researchers found that they host habitat for more than 4,000 species of amphibians, birds, mammals and reptiles. At least&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/11/afro-descendant-territories-slash-deforestation-lock-in-carbon-study-shows/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>How community custody empowered Ecuador’s crab catchers and revived its mangroves</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/11/how-community-custody-empowered-ecuadors-crab-catchers-and-revived-its-mangroves/</link>
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					<pubDate>26 Nov 2025 11:36:19 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Alexis Serrano Carmona]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
					</author>
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							<![CDATA[Ecuador, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Carbon Dioxide, Conservation, Ecosystems, Fisheries, Fishing, Forest Carbon, Forests, and Mangroves]]>
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							<![CDATA[Puerto Buenavista Island is home to a small village of crab catchers and fishers in the middle of the waters of the Gulf of Guayaquil in Ecuador. There are only 30 families, 140 people, and their homes, built very close to each other, form a line of blues, reds, yellows and greens. Access to Puerto [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Puerto Buenavista Island is home to a small village of crab catchers and fishers in the middle of the waters of the Gulf of Guayaquil in Ecuador. There are only 30 families, 140 people, and their homes, built very close to each other, form a line of blues, reds, yellows and greens. Access to Puerto Buenavista is only via an artisanal pier, made of wood so delicate that it looks like it could fall apart at any time. Along the shore, heavily eroded by the water that hits it every rainy season, 10 crab catchers gather to have a conversation. The journey to Puerto Buenavista is a one-hour boat ride from Caraguay Market, in southern Guayaquil. The brackish water along the way is a mixture of currents from the Daule and Babahoyo rivers and the Pacific Ocean. Throughout the entire trip, one is surrounded by the intense green mangrove forests, interrupted only along a few stretches by pools used for shrimp farming. The crab catchers discuss their fishing routines, the way they distinguish between male and female crabs just by sight, and their method of luring crabs out of their burrows using a meter-long rod. But they also discuss the “rounds” they make for vigilance, making sure that no one cuts down, damages or invades the mangrove forests. They are crab catchers, they say proudly. But they are also guardians — the guardians of the mangroves. Hectare for hectare, a mangrove forest can store five to seven times as much&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/11/how-community-custody-empowered-ecuadors-crab-catchers-and-revived-its-mangroves/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-310173</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Why are Amazonian trees getting ‘fatter’?</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/11/why-are-amazonian-trees-getting-fatter/</link>
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					<pubDate>24 Nov 2025 12:08:15 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Suzana Camargo]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Xavier Bartaburu]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Brazil, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Carbon Dioxide, Climate Change, Conservation, Environment, Forests, Old Growth Forests, Plants, Rainforests, and Trees]]>
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							<![CDATA[How have the trees in Amazonia reacted to the rise in CO2 emissions in recent centuries? It is common knowledge that, of all greenhouse gases, CO2 is the most responsible for global warming. The most recent report released by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) showed that the concentration of carbon in Earth’s atmosphere rose more [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[How have the trees in Amazonia reacted to the rise in CO2 emissions in recent centuries? It is common knowledge that, of all greenhouse gases, CO2 is the most responsible for global warming. The most recent report released by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) showed that the concentration of carbon in Earth’s atmosphere rose more in 2024 than in any other year since it began measuring in 1957. Climate scientists unanimously agree that last year’s increase was provoked by human activities, especially the burning of fossil fuels like oil, coal and natural gas. But to the surprise of researchers involved in a study recently published in Nature Plants, mature forests in Amazonia have shown much resilience in response to the climate changes resulting from the excess carbon in the atmosphere. This is important because trees are known to be natural CO2 sinks because they absorb it during photosynthesis. In addition, the trees in the Amazon Rainforest are getting “fatter” over time: The average trunk sizes are increasing 3.3% every decade. “We wouldn’t normally expect the average size of trees in an old-growth forest to change over time, since their growth and death rates generally remain stable,” explains Rebecca Banbury Morgan, a researcher at the University of Bristol’s School of Biological Sciences in the United Kingdom and co-author of the article. “We compared our observations with the fact that we weren’t expecting any changes and found that the average size of trees was increasing. This means that the trees today are&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/11/why-are-amazonian-trees-getting-fatter/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>‘Not good’: Ocean losing its greenness, threatening food webs</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/11/not-good-ocean-losing-its-greenness-threatening-food-webs/</link>
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					<pubDate>10 Nov 2025 17:46:28 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Edward Carver]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Morgan Erickson-Davis]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Global, and West Africa]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[algae, carbon, Carbon Dioxide, Climate, Climate Change, Coastal Ecosystems, Conservation, data, Ecosystems, Environment, Fisheries, Global Warming, Marine, and Oceans]]>
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							<![CDATA[The consequences of global warming, caused mainly by burning fossil fuels, are varied and many. Now scientists have documented yet another one: The ocean is losing its “greenness.” The ocean’s chlorophyll concentration, a proxy for phytoplankton biomass, declined over the past two decades, especially in coastal areas, a new study has found. Phytoplankton are plant-like [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The consequences of global warming, caused mainly by burning fossil fuels, are varied and many. Now scientists have documented yet another one: The ocean is losing its “greenness.” The ocean’s chlorophyll concentration, a proxy for phytoplankton biomass, declined over the past two decades, especially in coastal areas, a new study has found. Phytoplankton are plant-like organisms that are the base of the marine food web, supporting fisheries and broader ecosystems. The findings in the study, published Oct. 17 in the journal Science Advances, have far-reaching implications, according to the authors, most of them based at Tsinghua University in Beijing. “These changes will profoundly affect the magnitude and distribution of marine ecosystem functioning,” they wrote in the study’s conclusion. Curtis Deutsch, a professor of geosciences at Princeton University in the U.S., who wasn’t involved in the study, echoed their concern. “It’s not good,” Deutsch told Mongabay, speaking of the finding of reduced ocean greenness. “[It] almost certainly means that there&#8217;s less production of new organic matter, of algae in the ocean,” he added, with the qualifier that the trend of phytoplankton loss was relatively slow and he didn’t expect a “sudden collapse.” Study first author Zhongkun Hong, at the lectern, leads a discussion on chlorophyll A concentration and phytoplankton dynamics. Image courtesy of Di Long. Deutsch said the findings weren’t shocking, as scientists have theorized that a loss of greenness could be occurring. That’s because rising sea surface temperatures increase stratification — that is, they increase the difference in the density&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/11/not-good-ocean-losing-its-greenness-threatening-food-webs/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Drax pellet mill wins appeal to raise pollution limits in small Mississippi town</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/10/drax-pellet-mill-wins-appeal-to-raise-pollution-limits-in-small-mississippi-town/</link>
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					<pubDate>28 Oct 2025 17:17:54 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Justin Catanoso]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Glenn Scherer]]>
					</author>
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							<![CDATA[North America and United States]]>
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							<![CDATA[Air Pollution, Bioenergy, Business, Carbon Dioxide, Carbon Emissions, Climate Change, Deforestation, Drivers Of Deforestation, Energy, Environment, Environmental Law, Forests, Governance, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Health, Industry, Logging, Politics, Pollution, and Public Health]]>
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							<![CDATA[In April 2025, the town of Gloster, Mississippi, population 858, won a significant battle against the giant global wood pellet maker Drax, when the permitting board of the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) sided with the small community and denied the company’s request to increase air pollution limits so it could increase its manufacturing [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[In April 2025, the town of Gloster, Mississippi, population 858, won a significant battle against the giant global wood pellet maker Drax, when the permitting board of the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) sided with the small community and denied the company’s request to increase air pollution limits so it could increase its manufacturing output. Residents living near the Amite BioEnergy pellet mill breathed a sigh of relief then, thinking they had prevailed in proving their argument that Drax’s emissions were already harming their health and quality of life. The U.K.-based company had been fined three times by DEQ since 2016 for more than $2.75 million for exceeding toxic emissions limits at the plant. Then, on Oct. 15, DEQ reversed its previous decision. It agreed to reclassify Drax from being a minor emitter of hazardous air pollutants (HAPs) to being a major emitter, thus technically giving it permission to legally emit more HAPs than in recent years. In reversing its decision, DEQ appears to be betting on Drax’s pledge that recently installed pollution-control technology will reduce emissions overall at the Gloster plant over the long run — even as the facility seeks to produce more wood pellets. Gloster, Mississippi, citizens have long lobbied local and state officials about what they believe are serious health hazards posed by pollution coming from one of the largest wood pellet mills in the world, owned by Drax, a U.K.-headquartered transnational forest biomass and energy company. Image courtesy of Krystal Martin. Regardless of the&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/10/drax-pellet-mill-wins-appeal-to-raise-pollution-limits-in-small-mississippi-town/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>What fuel will ships burn as they move toward net zero?</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/10/what-fuel-will-ships-burn-as-they-move-toward-net-zero/</link>
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					<pubDate>08 Oct 2025 16:56:32 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Edward Carver]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Rebecca Kessler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Global]]>
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							<![CDATA[carbon, Carbon Dioxide, Carbon Emissions, Carbon Footprint, Carbon Offsets, Climate Change, climate finance, Conservation, Environment, Environmental Law, Environmental Policy, Governance, Impact Of Climate Change, Industry, Marine, Marine Conservation, Oceans, Politics, and Shipping]]>
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							<![CDATA[This is Part 3 of a short series on efforts to decarbonize the global shipping industry. Part 1 addressed international policy and politics, Part 2 efficiency measures. This part looks at alternative fuels. In mid-October, more than 100 nations will gather at a London meeting to decide whether to enshrine a set of carbon reduction [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[This is Part 3 of a short series on efforts to decarbonize the global shipping industry. Part 1 addressed international policy and politics, Part 2 efficiency measures. This part looks at alternative fuels. In mid-October, more than 100 nations will gather at a London meeting to decide whether to enshrine a set of carbon reduction rules into international shipping law. If they do, high-emitting conventional shipping fuels will be heavily penalized within a few years. But the rules don’t specify how they’re to be replaced; industry members would get to decide which low- and zero-carbon fuels to use instead. And so, spurred largely by these pending global regulations, the race is on to develop alternative fuels and scale up their use. Shipping accounts for about 3% of human-caused greenhouse gas emissions, and activity is expected to rise in coming decades. Efficiency measures to reduce fuel use of any kind, such as in hull design, will help but aren’t anywhere near a complete solution. “You’re not going to get to zero” with just efficiency, Lee Kindberg, former head of environment and sustainability for the North America division of Danish shipping giant A.P. Møller-Mærsk, often known simply as Maersk, told Mongabay. “Think about moving this huge mountain of metal with all these boxes of cargo on top of it,” she added. “It takes a lot of energy to do that, so it&#8217;s going to take low-carbon fuels.” Experts may disagree on the best alternative fuels, but they generally agree on which ones&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/10/what-fuel-will-ships-burn-as-they-move-toward-net-zero/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Global CO2 storage capacity may be drastically overstated, study finds</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/09/global-co2-storage-capacity-may-be-drastically-overstated-study-finds/</link>
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					<pubDate>22 Sep 2025 13:17:11 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[John Cannon]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[John Cannon]]>
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							<![CDATA[Global]]>
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							<![CDATA[Carbon Dioxide, Carbon Emissions, Carbon Sequestration, Climate Change, Climate Science, Conservation, Earth Science, Environment, Forest Carbon, Forests, Global Warming, Green, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Impact Of Climate Change, Mitigation, and Research]]>
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							<![CDATA[A new analysis suggests that the &#8220;prudent&#8221; storage available for carbon dioxide to head off further global warming is more limited than other recent estimates. Accounting for the risks associated with carbon capture and storage (CCS), the study found that stashing carbon underground in suitable locations would likely reduce warming by only about 0.7° Celsius [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[A new analysis suggests that the &#8220;prudent&#8221; storage available for carbon dioxide to head off further global warming is more limited than other recent estimates. Accounting for the risks associated with carbon capture and storage (CCS), the study found that stashing carbon underground in suitable locations would likely reduce warming by only about 0.7° Celsius (1.3° Fahrenheit). That figure is far below other estimated potential reductions of 5-6°C (9-11°F), potentially making CCS less promising than believed. The most common form of CCS involves injecting CO2 into underground rock formations, which in theory would lock it away and out of the atmosphere for millennia. Past research suggests there&#8217;s space on Earth to store 8,000-55,000 gigatons of CO2, leading some to conclude that the potential for CCS is virtually boundless. However, more recent studies have shown the constraints of this technique. CO2 captured from the atmosphere is injected into the Earth in the carbon capture and storage process. Image courtesy of the Global CCS Institute. This latest research, published Sept. 3 in the journal Nature, finds that many of the potential areas for CCS on Earth may be too risky to use. The paper argues that CCS needs to be used judiciously to deal with CO2 emissions, reserving it for carbon-intensive energy applications that aren&#8217;t easy to replace with renewable alternatives, such as agriculture, said Matthew Gidden, the study&#8217;s lead author and a senior researcher in the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Austria. Meanwhile, society could save that precious carbon&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/09/global-co2-storage-capacity-may-be-drastically-overstated-study-finds/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-306261</doi>				</item>
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					<title>With global rules pending, can the shipping industry get more carbon efficient?</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/09/with-global-rules-pending-can-the-shipping-industry-get-more-carbon-efficient/</link>
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					<pubDate>17 Sep 2025 18:30:07 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Edward Carver]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Morgan Erickson-Davis]]>
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							<![CDATA[Global]]>
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							<![CDATA[carbon, Carbon Dioxide, Carbon Emissions, Carbon Footprint, Carbon Offsets, Climate Change, climate finance, Conservation, Environment, Environmental Law, Environmental Policy, Governance, Impact Of Climate Change, Industry, Marine, Marine Conservation, Oceans, Politics, and Shipping]]>
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							<![CDATA[This is Part 2 of a short series on efforts to decarbonize the global shipping industry. Part 1 discussed international policy and politics. This part looks at efficiency measures. Those in the shipping business have long had some incentive to make their vessels travel more efficiently: saving money on fuel. But the heavy fuel oil [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[This is Part 2 of a short series on efforts to decarbonize the global shipping industry. Part 1 discussed international policy and politics. This part looks at efficiency measures. Those in the shipping business have long had some incentive to make their vessels travel more efficiently: saving money on fuel. But the heavy fuel oil they use is a “bottom-of-the-barrel” byproduct of crude oil refining and, while the price fluctuates, it generally is less expensive than other fossil fuels. So, getting shipowners to optimize operations or redesign their vessels on a large scale requires regulations, experts say. A big regulatory push may be steaming into port. The European Union recently began regulating greenhouse gas emissions from shipping, and the International Maritime Organization could adopt global decarbonization rules at a meeting in October, which would make shipping the first industry to be governed by a global treaty that sets enforceable decarbonization standards. The IMO deal would lead to a long-term transition to greener fuels and it could, coupled with other IMO regulations, lead to increased use of efficiency measures that reduce how much fuel vessels need in the first place. Such measures include everything from adding sails to ships to lubricating or redesigning hulls and optimizing routes or arrival times. These are cheaper and more immediately available than alternative fuels. “Efficiency measures are the most important because ultimately the most important thing we can do is reduce energy consumption, full stop,” Madadh MacLaine, secretary-general of the Zero Emissions Ship Technology Association&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/09/with-global-rules-pending-can-the-shipping-industry-get-more-carbon-efficient/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Warming triggers unprecedented carbon loss from tropical soils, study finds</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/09/warming-triggers-unprecedented-carbon-loss-from-tropical-soils-study-finds/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/09/warming-triggers-unprecedented-carbon-loss-from-tropical-soils-study-finds/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>16 Sep 2025 15:34:42 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Claire Asher]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Glenn Scherer]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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											<reporting-project>
							<![CDATA[Planetary Boundaries]]>
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							<![CDATA[Global, North America, Puerto Rico, and Tropics]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Adaptation To Climate Change, Biodiversity, carbon, Carbon Dioxide, Carbon Emissions, Carbon Sequestration, Climate Change, Conservation, Deforestation, Ecosystems, Environment, Forest Carbon, Forests, Global Warming, Impact Of Climate Change, Research, Soil Carbon, Trees, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[Climate warming could cause much greater soil carbon losses in the tropics than previously predicted, with potentially dire consequences for the global climate, according to a new study published in Nature Communications. Tropical forests store around a third of the world’s soil carbon and exchange more CO2 with the atmosphere than any other land biome. [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Climate warming could cause much greater soil carbon losses in the tropics than previously predicted, with potentially dire consequences for the global climate, according to a new study published in Nature Communications. Tropical forests store around a third of the world’s soil carbon and exchange more CO2 with the atmosphere than any other land biome. So even a relatively small shift in the balance of carbon uptake and release by tropical soils could have a big impact on atmospheric CO2 levels and the world’s climate. Air temperatures in the tropics are predicted to increase by as much as 6° Celsius (10.8° Fahrenheit) by the end of the century, but how this will impact soil carbon stores is largely unknown. “Tropical forests house the majority of the world&#8217;s biodiversity, but they’re also these incredible biogeochemical engines that cycle huge amounts of carbon into and out of the atmosphere,” says Tana Wood, the study’s lead author and an ecosystem ecologist and biogeochemist at the USDA Forest Service’s International Institute of Tropical Forestry. The prevailing scientific view was that tropical ecosystems would be less sensitive to warming than those in higher latitudes. As a result, research on soil responses to warming in the tropics has lagged behind studies in temperate and Arctic ecosystems. To date, only two long-term field experiments have investigated how tropical soils respond to warming. One of these, which warmed soils in a Panama tropical forest, reported a 55% increase in soil CO2 emissions after two years. Now, results from&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/09/warming-triggers-unprecedented-carbon-loss-from-tropical-soils-study-finds/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Uruguay’s green hydrogen plans raise ecological concerns in Argentina &#038; at home</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/09/uruguays-green-hydrogen-plans-raise-ecological-concerns-in-argentina-at-home/</link>
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					<pubDate>15 Sep 2025 19:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Ali Qassim]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Alexandra Popescu]]>
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							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Latin America, South America, and Uruguay]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Carbon Dioxide, Clean Energy, Coastal Ecosystems, Community Development, Conservation, Ecosystems, Energy, Environment, Environmental Policy, Freshwater, Just Transition, Politics, Renewable Energy, Tourism, and Wetlands]]>
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							<![CDATA[COLÓN, Argentina — Darío Larrosa was 15 when he learned to drive a motorboat. Decades later, he still loves taking tourists fishing along the Uruguay River’s sandy shores aboard Abuela Elisa, the boat he named after his grandmother. He does ask the lucky anglers who catch something to release the fish, to help maintain the [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[COLÓN, Argentina — Darío Larrosa was 15 when he learned to drive a motorboat. Decades later, he still loves taking tourists fishing along the Uruguay River’s sandy shores aboard Abuela Elisa, the boat he named after his grandmother. He does ask the lucky anglers who catch something to release the fish, to help maintain the river&#8217;s fish stocks. But Larrosa and the wider community in Colón, a tourist resort in Argentina’s Entre Ríos province, are worried that a major green energy project rising on the Uruguayan side of the river could undermine riverine ecosystems and local livelihoods. In Uruguay, communities in Paysandú, a city 15 kilometers (9.3 miles) south of the project, have also put up resistance, despite promises of jobs and economic growth. Planned to become operational in 2026, the Paysandú e-fuels facility is a $6 billion project by Chile-based company HIF Global aiming to produce about 700,000 metric tons of e-methanol annually using green hydrogen. The 1GW-capacity facility is one of four major hydrogen initiatives in the country, as Uruguay seeks to further decarbonize its economy and export green hydrogen. The nation is already supplying 99% of its electricity from renewables and wants to become carbon neutral by 2050. According to Uruguay’s Ministry of Industry, Energy and Mining (MIEM), developing the green hydrogen industry could bring the country $1.9 billion per year and create more than 30,000 jobs. The Uruguay River runs for more than 1,800 km (1,120 mi), from Brazil’s Serra do Mar mountains to the Río&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/09/uruguays-green-hydrogen-plans-raise-ecological-concerns-in-argentina-at-home/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-305916</doi>				</item>
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					<title>New study pinpoints tree-planting hotspots for climate and biodiversity gains</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/09/new-study-pinpoints-tree-planting-hotspots-for-climate-and-biodiversity-gains/</link>
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					<pubDate>03 Sep 2025 15:19:11 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Marina Martinez]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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											<reporting-project>
							<![CDATA[Forest Restoration Solutions]]>
						</reporting-project>
					
											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Central America, Global, and Panama]]>
						</locations>
					
											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Biodiversity, Carbon Dioxide, Carbon Emissions, Climate, Climate Change, Conservation, data, Ecosystem Services, Ecosystems, Environment, Forest Regeneration, Forests, Fossil Fuels, Land Use Change, Mapping, Plants, Reforestation, Restoration, Trees, and Water]]>
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											<description>
							<![CDATA[Reforestation is gaining global momentum as a climate solution, but scientists warn that planting trees indiscriminately isn’t effective. Its success depends on how and, crucially, where it’s done. A new study in Nature Communications, co-authored by scientists from The Nature Conservancy (TNC) and other institutions, seeks to advance global reforestation efforts by mapping the locations [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Reforestation is gaining global momentum as a climate solution, but scientists warn that planting trees indiscriminately isn’t effective. Its success depends on how and, crucially, where it’s done. A new study in Nature Communications, co-authored by scientists from The Nature Conservancy (TNC) and other institutions, seeks to advance global reforestation efforts by mapping the locations where tree planting and forest regrowth are most likely to deliver climate, biodiversity and community benefits. The authors compiled their findings into a web-based tool called the Reforestation Hub. “Reforestation is a readily-available, scalable, cost-effective carbon removal solution, but we have neither time nor resources to restore trees everywhere,” said study co-author Susan Cook-Patton, lead reforestation scientist at TNC. “Our goal with this research was to help accelerate action by highlighting the places where reforestation holds the greatest promise for people, nature, and climate,” she added in an email interview that Mongabay conducted with the TNC team. Burning within Tesso Nilo National Park in Indonesia. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay. Their research builds on previous maps of tree cover restoration potential, refining them by excluding areas where planting trees could do more harm than good, such as non-forested and fire-prone grasslands and savannas. Kurt Fesenmyer, the study lead author and TNC’s forest spatial data scientist, said earlier maps have been critiqued for three main reasons: how they defined “forest”; the data quality; and the lack of safeguards to ensure positive outcomes for people and the environment. “In developing our new map, we sought to address&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/09/new-study-pinpoints-tree-planting-hotspots-for-climate-and-biodiversity-gains/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-305279</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Soil carbon: Crucial ally or potential threat to net-zero commitments?</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/09/soil-carbon-crucial-ally-or-potential-threat-to-net-zero-commitments/</link>
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					<pubDate>03 Sep 2025 15:17:26 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Claire Asher]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Glenn Scherer]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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											<reporting-project>
							<![CDATA[Planetary Boundaries]]>
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											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Global]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Biodiversity, carbon, Carbon Dioxide, Carbon Emissions, Carbon Sequestration, Climate Change, Conservation, data, Ecosystem Services, Ecosystems, Environment, Forest Carbon, Forests, Fossil Fuels, Global Warming, Impact Of Climate Change, Industrial Agriculture, Land Use Change, Politics, Research, and Soil Carbon]]>
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							<![CDATA[The daily destruction of nature’s carbon stores is happening right before our eyes, as forests are ravaged by catastrophic wildfires and vast tracts of wildlands are cleared for agriculture. But even greater stores of carbon lie hidden beneath our feet, and they too are under threat. The world’s soils are a gigantic carbon sink that [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The daily destruction of nature’s carbon stores is happening right before our eyes, as forests are ravaged by catastrophic wildfires and vast tracts of wildlands are cleared for agriculture. But even greater stores of carbon lie hidden beneath our feet, and they too are under threat. The world’s soils are a gigantic carbon sink that has so far played a vital, outsized role in mitigating humanity’s excessive carbon emissions. But climate change, industrialized agriculture and other human activities threaten to degrade global soil carbon storage — maybe dangerously so. Preserving the ecosystem services of this subterranean environment is crucial to meeting global net zero commitments. The global soil carbon sink: An uncertain future Earth’s top 2 meters (6 feet) of soil contain an astonishing 2.5 trillion metric tons of carbon — more than is held in living vegetation and the atmosphere combined. But this is not a static store: Soils are constantly gaining and losing carbon as plants, fungi, bacteria and animals act upon them. An estimated 60 billion metric tons of carbon flow in and out of the soil every year, more than three times the scale of human emissions. “That flux in and out of the soils can be the biggest determinant of atmospheric CO2 levels,” says Jonathan Sanderman, a senior scientist at the Woodwell Climate Research Center in the U.S. But as the climate warms, the balance of carbon flowing in and out of soil is being disrupted, with potentially disastrous consequences. Estimates suggest that global soils&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/09/soil-carbon-crucial-ally-or-potential-threat-to-net-zero-commitments/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Scientists warn ocean-based climate fixes lack rules and oversight</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/08/scientists-warn-ocean-based-climate-fixes-lack-rules-and-oversight/</link>
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					<pubDate>27 Aug 2025 17:04:23 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Edward Carver]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Morgan Erickson-Davis]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Global]]>
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							<![CDATA[Carbon Dioxide, Climate Change, Conservation, Coral Bleaching, Coral Reefs, Ecosystems, Environment, Fish, Marine, Marine Conservation, Ocean Warming, and Oceans]]>
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							<![CDATA[A growing number of oceans-based solutions to the climate crisis have been tried or devised in recent years, thanks largely to an influx of funding. These range from replanting lost mangroves, to modifying the genome of corals, to pumping nutrient-rich deep water to the surface, to engineering clouds to be more reflective. While many of [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[A growing number of oceans-based solutions to the climate crisis have been tried or devised in recent years, thanks largely to an influx of funding. These range from replanting lost mangroves, to modifying the genome of corals, to pumping nutrient-rich deep water to the surface, to engineering clouds to be more reflective. While many of these projects and ideas may be well-intentioned, marine-climate interventions, as they’re called, are generally not subject to strong governance or oversight, a new paper says. The lack of accountability in the field creates risks of serious harm and could accelerate a “social-ecological crisis,” according to the paper, published in the journal Science on July 31. “As a group of interdisciplinary marine and climate scientists, we all started thinking, ‘hang on, what&#8217;s going on here?’” Tiffany Morrison, a professor of geography at the University of Melbourne in Australia and lead author of the paper, told Mongabay. “This is actually problematic. The field is moving so fast.” Morrison and co-authors write that “the pace of interventions is outstripping capacity to prevent unintended consequences because governance systems to ensure responsible transformation of marine systems are not yet in place.” They call for local, national and global rules that will make interventions “safe, equitable and effective.” A mangrove forest near a coral reef in Indonesia. Both ecosystems have increasingly been subject to marine-climate interventions, including “blue carbon” projects for mangroves and bioengineering and relocation projects for corals. Image courtesy of Alex Mustard/Ocean Image Bank. What’s a marine-climate intervention? Marine-climate&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/08/scientists-warn-ocean-based-climate-fixes-lack-rules-and-oversight/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-304929</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Ocean-based carbon storage ramps up, bringing investment and concern</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/08/ocean-based-carbon-storage-ramps-up-bringing-investment-and-concern/</link>
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					<pubDate>19 Aug 2025 16:11:52 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Sean Mowbray]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Global]]>
						</locations>
					
											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Carbon Dioxide, Climate Change, Conservation, Coral Bleaching, Coral Reefs, Ecosystems, Environment, Fish, Geoengineering, Marine, Marine Conservation, Ocean Warming, Oceans, Saltwater Fish, and Water]]>
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							<![CDATA[Capturing carbon to ship or funnel it offshore for storage in depleted marine oil and gas wells is gaining momentum as a proposed climate solution, even as it faces criticism. Across the globe, plans are afoot to launch multiple projects — such as in the North Sea, the Gulf of Mexico, and Southeast Asia — [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Capturing carbon to ship or funnel it offshore for storage in depleted marine oil and gas wells is gaining momentum as a proposed climate solution, even as it faces criticism. Across the globe, plans are afoot to launch multiple projects — such as in the North Sea, the Gulf of Mexico, and Southeast Asia — backed by government funding in many cases. This form of carbon capture and storage, or CCS, involves collecting carbon (often directly from polluting industries such as cement factories or steelworks) and altering it into supercritical form, the highest density of CO2. It’s then moved via ship or pipeline to offshore infrastructure. Once there, the CO2 is pumped into a former well and capped. “These same formations held oil and gas for millions of years before they were extracted — this means we know the CO2 can be stored permanently on the same timescale, and we have detailed data and a strong understanding of their geology and how much they can store,” Chris Consoli, the Global CCS Institute’s principal for storage, told Mongabay in an email. But this proposed climate solution, which aims to piggyback on the fossil fuel industry’s existing infrastructure and workforce, has been slammed by critics as a means to justify continued exploitation of fossil fuels using a method riddled with underperformance and failure. For critics, this simple picture of using the ocean subsurface as a carbon storehouse belies the need for masses of new green infrastructure, energy and finance, while also being&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/08/ocean-based-carbon-storage-ramps-up-bringing-investment-and-concern/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>World’s first industry-wide climate mandate could be launched with shipping vote</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/08/worlds-first-industry-wide-climate-mandate-could-be-launched-with-shipping-vote/</link>
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					<pubDate>07 Aug 2025 15:47:43 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Edward Carver]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Rebecca Kessler]]>
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							<![CDATA[This is Part 1 in a short series on efforts to decarbonize the global shipping industry. Since the Paris climate agreement was signed in 2015, no industry has been governed by a global treaty that sets enforceable decarbonization standards. That could change in October, when more than 100 nations will gather at a meeting of [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[This is Part 1 in a short series on efforts to decarbonize the global shipping industry. Since the Paris climate agreement was signed in 2015, no industry has been governed by a global treaty that sets enforceable decarbonization standards. That could change in October, when more than 100 nations will gather at a meeting of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) in London to potentially adopt a “net-zero framework” for the shipping industry. The body finalized the draft of the framework and moved it toward adoption at an April meeting. The shipping sector currently accounts for about 3% of human-caused greenhouse gas emissions, and maritime trade volumes are expected to increase in coming decades. In 2023, the IMO, a United Nations body that regulates shipping, approved a nonbinding strategy to decarbonize “by or around” 2050. The new framework, if it’s adopted and enters into force, will make that vision concrete and binding. Critics, however, say the framework falls short of fulfilling the strategic vision. The framework sets exact emissions targets through 2040, when all large vessels will be required to reduce their greenhouse gas intensity by 65% from a 2008 baseline or pay substantial fees. “That in practice means a fundamentally different energy system for shipping,” Tristan Smith, professor of energy and transport at University College London and a leading expert on shipping decarbonization, told Mongabay. “If the [framework] is adopted, then within 15 years, the entire fleet has to completely change the energy that it uses on board, and the&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/08/worlds-first-industry-wide-climate-mandate-could-be-launched-with-shipping-vote/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Meat giant profits from carbon market without halting deforestation</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/07/meat-giant-profits-from-carbon-market-without-halting-deforestation/</link>
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					<pubDate>04 Jul 2025 15:48:43 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Bruna Bronoskifrom O Joio e O Trigo]]>
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						<![CDATA[Xavier Bartaburu]]>
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							<![CDATA[Brazil and Saudi Arabia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Carbon Credits, Carbon Dioxide, Carbon Emissions, Carbon Market, Cattle, Deforestation, Drivers Of Deforestation, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Greenwashing, Meat, Oil, Oil Drilling, Pasture, Rainforests, and Tropical Deforestation]]>
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							<![CDATA[Since the first scientific critiques of fossil fuels, oil companies have gone from being the &#8220;wealth of nations&#8221; to &#8220;destroyers of the planet.&#8221; In financial market terms, they have become environmental liabilities. It cannot be said, however, that they have also become economic liabilities. The global carbon credit market is heating up — quite like [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Since the first scientific critiques of fossil fuels, oil companies have gone from being the &#8220;wealth of nations&#8221; to &#8220;destroyers of the planet.&#8221; In financial market terms, they have become environmental liabilities. It cannot be said, however, that they have also become economic liabilities. The global carbon credit market is heating up — quite like the planet — and oil companies are among the main players interested in leveraging this business. Among the world&#8217;s largest oil producers, countries on the Arabian Peninsula, such as Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, have partnered with Brazil’s Minerva Foods. It is the country’s second-largest meatpacker by net revenue, trailing only JBS — a giant firm whose supply chain has been linked to deforestation. In 2021, Minerva’s subsidiary MyCarbon 3 Ltda was created for a single purpose: to generate and sell carbon credits. However, the company’s projects are far from transparent. Currently under validation by Verra, the world’s leading carbon credits certifier, these initiatives aim to restore degraded pasturelands in the Cerrado. This biodiverse savanna ecosystem, which comprises around 20% of Brazil’s territory, is home to part of Minerva’s cattle supply chain and has already lost half of its native vegetation. The main cause of deforestation in the Cerrado is the activity that feeds Minerva&#8217;s meatpacking plants, farming. Partnerships between oil companies and carbon credit companies are emerging as a global trend. In 2022, Shell invested 200 million reais (roughly $40 million) in Carbonext, a developer of REDD+ projects (carbon projects in forests).&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/07/meat-giant-profits-from-carbon-market-without-halting-deforestation/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>As ocean acidification ramps up, experts call for speedy ocean protection</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/06/as-ocean-acidification-ramps-up-experts-call-for-speedy-ocean-protection/</link>
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					<pubDate>26 Jun 2025 20:28:48 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Sean Mowbray]]>
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						<![CDATA[Glenn Scherer]]>
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							<![CDATA[Planetary Boundaries]]>
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							<![CDATA[carbon, Carbon Dioxide, Carbon Emissions, Chemicals, Climate Change, Conservation, Conservation Solutions, Coral Reefs, Ecosystems, Environment, Geoengineering, Global Environmental Crisis, Impact Of Climate Change, Marine, Marine Conservation, Ocean Acidification, Ocean Warming, Oceans, Planetary Boundaries, Research, and Solutions]]>
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							<![CDATA[Ocean health is moving into a danger zone, with rampant human-caused carbon dioxide emissions having already pushed ocean acidification levels beyond safe limits in large swaths of the marine environment, according to a recent study. The new findings underline the urgent need to ramp up protection of the world’s oceans, while simultaneously slashing CO2 emissions, [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Ocean health is moving into a danger zone, with rampant human-caused carbon dioxide emissions having already pushed ocean acidification levels beyond safe limits in large swaths of the marine environment, according to a recent study. The new findings underline the urgent need to ramp up protection of the world’s oceans, while simultaneously slashing CO2 emissions, say experts. But from a scientific perspective, worsening ocean acidification is not an overly surprising finding, considering that carbon dioxide emissions remain high, says lead author Helen Findlay, a biological oceanographer at the Plymouth Marine Laboratory in the U.K. Researchers have known for decades that humanity’s CO2 emissions are being absorbed by seawater, triggering chemical reactions that release hydrogen ions, in turn reducing the abundance of carbonate ions. This ocean acidification process — which has escalated in tandem with atmospheric emissions — has implications for a large number of ocean-dwelling calcifying species that rely on calcium carbonate for their shells, with harm to those species potentially reverberating throughout marine ecosystems. “We have really good data sets, and the data sets and this paper really just emphasize that we&#8217;re just watching the system crash.… [W]e need to be making real change now so that we don&#8217;t make things worse,” Findlay says. “In my assessment, [this new paper] confirms what we&#8217;ve been expecting,” agrees Johan Rockström, director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany, who was not involved in the current study. “[W]e are unfortunately moving beyond the safe boundary on ocean acidification.” Researchers&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/06/as-ocean-acidification-ramps-up-experts-call-for-speedy-ocean-protection/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Carbon capture projects promise a climate fix — and a fossil fuel lifeline</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/06/carbon-capture-projects-promise-a-climate-fix-and-a-fossil-fuel-lifeline/</link>
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					<pubDate>04 Jun 2025 15:22:04 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Nithin Coca]]>
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						<![CDATA[Isabel Esterman]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Southeast Asia, and Thailand]]>
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							<![CDATA[Business, carbon, Carbon Dioxide, Carbon Emissions, Carbon Sequestration, Climate, Climate Change, climate finance, Conservation, Energy, Energy Efficiency, Environment, Environmental Law, Fossil Fuels, Governance, Industry, Natural Gas, Oil, and Politics]]>
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							<![CDATA[The Kasawari gas field, off the coast of Malaysian Borneo, was discovered in 2011 and has been seen as a lifeline for the country’s energy dreams. Malaysia has long depended on oil and gas exports for economic expansion and government revenue, and this new field promised to allow state-owned oil company Petronas and its partners [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The Kasawari gas field, off the coast of Malaysian Borneo, was discovered in 2011 and has been seen as a lifeline for the country’s energy dreams. Malaysia has long depended on oil and gas exports for economic expansion and government revenue, and this new field promised to allow state-owned oil company Petronas and its partners to continue fossil gas and petroleum production. But this time, Malaysia is seeking to harness the discovery for more than just oil and gas. The government and Petronas have announced plans to make the Kasawari field the world’s largest offshore carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) project, storing CO2 from around the world as soon as 2028. The plan is to build a fixed offshore platform 200 kilometers (120 miles) from the coast, where compressed CO2 will be reinjected into a depleted reservoir via a 138-km (86-mi) subsea pipeline. It’s part of an ambitious plan to make CCS central to Malaysia’s energy transition, after its inclusion in the National Energy Transition Roadmap, and the March passage of a Carbon Capture, Utilisation, and Storage (“CCUS”) Bill, which sets guidelines for CO2 storage and transport. The Kasawari CCS project is one of several proposed and planned across Southeast Asia, including in Indonesia and Thailand. Proponents argue that, due to the young age of the region’s existing coal and gas-fired power plants and expected growth in energy demand, renewables like wind and solar won’t be enough to meet climate and regional net-zero targets. “There is intensive discussion among Government&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/06/carbon-capture-projects-promise-a-climate-fix-and-a-fossil-fuel-lifeline/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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