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					<title>Fertilizer management could reduce ammonia pollution from 3 staple crops: Study</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/03/fertilizer-management-could-reduce-ammonia-pollution-from-3-staple-crops-study/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/03/fertilizer-management-could-reduce-ammonia-pollution-from-3-staple-crops-study/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>18 Mar 2024 14:11:31 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Claire Asher]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Glenn Scherer]]>
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							<category><![CDATA[Food systems]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Planetary Boundaries]]>
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							<![CDATA[Global]]>
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							<![CDATA[Adaptation To Climate Change, Agriculture, Agrochemicals, Air Pollution, Carbon Emissions, Chemicals, Climate Change, Climate Science, Consumption, Development, Economics, Environment, Farming, Fertilizers, Food, Global Environmental Crisis, Globalization, Industrial Agriculture, Nitrogen Cycle, Nitrous Oxide, Nutrient Pollution, Pollution, and Soil Carbon]]>
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							<![CDATA[A machine learning model of ammonia emissions from the world’s rice, wheat and corn crops shows that optimal fertilizer management could slash ammonia air pollution from these crops by 38%.]]>
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							<![CDATA[More effective management of nitrogen fertilizers could reduce emissions of a harmful air pollutant from the cultivation of three staple crops by up to 38%, according to a study published in the journal Nature and conducted by an international team of scientists led by Yi Zheng from China’s Southern University of Science and Technology. A model using a type of artificial intelligence known as machine learning helped researchers untangle the complex relationship between environment, climate and agricultural practices to generate the most detailed map to date of global ammonia emissions from rice, wheat and corn. Ammonia is a major air pollutant that drives the formation of smog, which is linked to a variety of health issues, including asthma, lung cancer and cardiovascular disease. Nitrogen fertilizers are applied to crops to increase yield, but some of that nitrogen is lost to the atmosphere in the form of ammonia. Globally, crop cultivation is responsible for around 50-60% of human-caused ammonia emissions. Ammonia is a major air pollutant that drives the formation of smog, which plagues cities like New Delhi and Beijing. Smog is linked to a variety of health issues, including asthma, lung cancer and cardiovascular disease. Image by Jim Fruchterman via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0). The amount of ammonia emitted from cropland depends on two factors: how much nitrogen is applied and what proportion of that nitrogen is lost to the atmosphere as ammonia — a metric known as the ammonia emission factor. Emission factors are determined by a variety of&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2024/03/fertilizer-management-could-reduce-ammonia-pollution-from-3-staple-crops-study/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-279877</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Agricultural nitrogen pollution is global threat, but circular solutions await</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/01/agricultural-nitrogen-pollution-is-global-threat-but-circular-solutions-await/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/01/agricultural-nitrogen-pollution-is-global-threat-but-circular-solutions-await/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>16 Jan 2024 16:26:33 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Claire Asher]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Glenn Scherer]]>
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							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Circular economy and Planetary Boundaries]]>
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							<![CDATA[Global]]>
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							<![CDATA[Adaptation To Climate Change, Agriculture, Agrochemicals, Air Pollution, Biodiversity, Carbon Emissions, Chemicals, Climate Change, Climate Science, Consumption, Development, Economics, Environment, Fertilizers, Food, Global Environmental Crisis, Globalization, Industrial Agriculture, Nitrogen Cycle, Nitrous Oxide, Nutrient Pollution, Pollution, and Soil Carbon]]>
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							<![CDATA[As the world grapples with escalating climate change, policymakers remain laser-focused on CO2, with humanity striving to decarbonize energy systems, capture carbon, issue carbon credits, and plant millions of trees to absorb emissions. But carbon dioxide is just one of several powerful greenhouse gases destabilizing the global climate, and just one of the human-produced pollutants [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[As the world grapples with escalating climate change, policymakers remain laser-focused on CO2, with humanity striving to decarbonize energy systems, capture carbon, issue carbon credits, and plant millions of trees to absorb emissions. But carbon dioxide is just one of several powerful greenhouse gases destabilizing the global climate, and just one of the human-produced pollutants severely impacting the natural world and threatening to push Earth out of its current habitable state. Another substance that rarely enters the limelight, but arguably has an even greater impact on our planet’s life support systems, is nitrogen. “Nitrogen is everywhere and invisible,” and its influences are many, says Mark Sutton, an environmental physicist at the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology. Massive imbalances in Earth’s natural nitrogen cycle, brought about by humanity’s agri-food, industrial and transport systems, have caused scientists to sound multiple alarms — especially over the last two decades – warnings that have gone largely unheeded. But analysts say circular economy solutions await, though they’ll require sweeping agricultural and societal changes. Reducing the proportion of animal protein in diets, particularly in Europe and North America, could substantially reduce humanity’s reliance on synthetic fertilizer. Image by A C Moraes via Flickr (CC BY 2.0). Haber-Bosch: A double-edged sword Nitrogen is essential. “Without nitrogen, there is no life. It&#8217;s the building blocks of DNA, amino acids, and proteins. It&#8217;s in chlorophyll that fuels photosynthesis,” explains David Kanter, an environmental scientist at New York University. But although this element makes up nearly 80% of the&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2024/01/agricultural-nitrogen-pollution-is-global-threat-but-circular-solutions-await/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-277553</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Aviation’s climate conundrum: More than sustainable fuels needed</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/07/aviations-climate-conundrum-more-than-sustainable-fuels-needed/</link>
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					<pubDate>19 Jul 2023 15:22:45 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Sean Mowbray]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Glenn Scherer]]>
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							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Bioenergy, Covering the Commons, and Planetary Boundaries]]>
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							<![CDATA[Global]]>
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							<![CDATA[Air Pollution, Bioenergy, carbon, Carbon Emissions, Carbon Footprint, Climate Change, Emission Reduction, Energy Efficiency, Environment, Fossil Fuels, Green, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Nitrous Oxide, Sustainability, and Travel]]>
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							<![CDATA[Sustainable aviation fuels aren’t enough to drastically cut commercial aviation’s carbon footprint soon. Nor are redesigned planes or carbon-smart airports. Reducing demand for air travel may be the best answer.]]>
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							<![CDATA[This story is the second article of a two-part Mongabay series exploring the latest climate change solutions available to the aviation industry. Read Part One. The commercial aviation industry hopes to use sustainable aviation fuels (SAFs) to slash its greenhouse gas emissions. However, faced by challenges of SAF availability, production, scaling up, cost, and environmental pitfalls, experts say a range of other technical and policy options are needed now to make deep cuts in the sector’s carbon emissions. These options range from designing more fuel-efficient planes, to shrinking the carbon footprint of airports. But some analysts say this doesn’t go far enough toward achieving a net-zero emissions goal, and are opting for a more controversial solution: curbing customer demand for air travel. “It’s inevitable that we need to have demand management now,” says Tim Johnson, director of the NGO Aviation Environment Federation. “There is a role for SAFs and [other] good [emissions-reduction] pathways need to be progressed … But we really need to get real about the fact that [SAFs] aren’t going to deliver at the scale we need, and therefore a conversation around demand is desperately needed now.” A range of SAF feedstocks, such as canola, are candidates for sustainable aviation fuels. Each comes with its own challenges and environmental consequences. Critics argue that crop-based biofuels in particular are problematic as they can conflict and compete with food-based crops and incur other environmental harm, such as land-use change including deforestation. Image by Seth Schoen via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0).&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2023/07/aviations-climate-conundrum-more-than-sustainable-fuels-needed/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-271121</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Sustainable aviation fuels: Potential lagging behind reality</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/07/sustainable-aviation-fuels-potential-lagging-behind-reality/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/07/sustainable-aviation-fuels-potential-lagging-behind-reality/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>18 Jul 2023 15:04:15 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Sean Mowbray]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Glenn Scherer]]>
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							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Bioenergy, Covering the Commons, and Planetary Boundaries]]>
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							<![CDATA[Global]]>
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							<![CDATA[Air Pollution, carbon, Carbon Emissions, Climate Change, Emission Reduction, Energy Efficiency, Environment, Fossil Fuels, Green, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Nitrous Oxide, Sustainability, and Travel]]>
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							<![CDATA[The key to sustainable aviation fuels (SAFs) is cutting their carbon footprint during production, and making large amounts — no easy task.]]>
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							<![CDATA[This story is the first article of a two-part Mongabay series exploring the latest climate change solutions available to the aviation industry. Read Part Two. Battered for three years by the COVID-19 pandemic, the commercial airline industry’s recovery is now in full swing. Forecasts say that customer demand, and air transport climate change-inducing emissions, will soon soar above 2019 levels, when carbon releases reached 920 million metric tons. In total, the industry is responsible for an estimated 2-3% of global carbon emissions, or around 4% of human-induced warming, according to one study; that’s more than many countries, including Brazil and Germany, individually produce. The industry continues working toward a solution to its carbon emissions and climate image problem, known as sustainable aviation fuels (SAFs). But that goal is currently a long shot at best, according to most analysts. SAFs come in two main varieties based on sourcing: Liquid biofuels are made from algae, food crops and food waste (including used vegetable oils and even sewage), while synthetic fuels include green hydrogen or synthetic kerosene. Both biofuels and synthetic fuels could be key routes to cutting the aviation industry’s heavy climate footprint, though big challenges loom. In the near term, “drop-in” fuels — those not requiring overhauls of existing aircraft engines — remain the most direct immediate way to cut aviation emissions, say experts. The “bottom line,” says Candelaria Bergero, is that a lot of these SAFs will be needed to meet the aviation industry’s carbon-reduction goals. Bergero is an Earth&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2023/07/sustainable-aviation-fuels-potential-lagging-behind-reality/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-271019</doi>				</item>
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					<title>For Dutch farming crisis, agroforestry offers solutions: Q&#038;A with Lennart Fuchs &#038; Marc Buiter</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/03/for-dutch-farming-crisis-agroforestry-offers-solutions-qa-with-lennart-fuchs-mark-buiter/</link>
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					<pubDate>21 Mar 2023 18:37:45 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Peter Speetjens]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Latoya Abulu]]>
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							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Global Commodities]]>
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							<![CDATA[Europe, European Union, and Netherlands]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[agribusiness, Agriculture, Agrochemicals, Agroecology, Agroforestry, Beef, Biodiversity, Climate, Climate Change, Climate Justice, Community Development, Conservation, Conservation Solutions, Controversial, Crops, Environmental Law, Farming, Fertilizers, Food, Food Industry, food security, Industrial Agriculture, Law, Law Enforcement, Meat, Mitigation, Mongabay Data Studio, Nature-based climate solutions, Nitrogen Cycle, Nitrous Oxide, Politics, Pollution, Protests, and Solutions]]>
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							<![CDATA[Last year, farmer protests erupted throughout the Netherlands, riding a wave of rural anger at government plans to drastically halve nitrogen emissions by downsizing and closing farms. This quickly swept the newly founded agrarian party, the Farmer-Citizen Movement (BoerBurgerBeweging, or BBB), to victory in last week’s provincial elections, making it the country’s biggest political party. [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Last year, farmer protests erupted throughout the Netherlands, riding a wave of rural anger at government plans to drastically halve nitrogen emissions by downsizing and closing farms. This quickly swept the newly founded agrarian party, the Farmer-Citizen Movement (BoerBurgerBeweging, or BBB), to victory in last week’s provincial elections, making it the country’s biggest political party. In the face of the farmer and nitrogen crisis, Dutch agriculture and environmental experts are calling for a change to the food system in a way that both reduces nitrogen emissions while addressing the financial and livelihood concerns of farmers, many of whom are in debt. “As they say in Dutch, ‘You can’t be green if you are in the red,’” says Lennart Fuchs, an agriculture researcher at Wageningen University &amp; Research in the Netherlands. Among the solutions the experts propose are agroforestry systems that harmoniously integrate reduced livestock with profitable trees and crops such as hazelnut, walnut, cider apple and timber trees, Fuchs tells Mongabay in an interview. Also known as silvopasture, this is a climate change solution that reduces emissions and can bring large returns on investments by producing multiple streams of income. A computer-generated image of what a future farm could look like in the Netherlands if it used an agroforestry system. Image by Lennart Fuchs. The Netherlands has long been a global agricultural powerhouse, and farms there have often been managed by the same families for generations. Home to some 17.5 million people, the country is Europe’s largest meat exporter and the&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2023/03/for-dutch-farming-crisis-agroforestry-offers-solutions-qa-with-lennart-fuchs-mark-buiter/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-266679</doi>				</item>
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					<title>How much does air travel warm the planet? New study gives a figure</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2022/04/how-much-does-air-travel-warm-the-planet-new-study-gives-a-figure/</link>
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					<pubDate>06 Apr 2022 17:55:44 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Liz Kimbrough]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Liz Kimbrough]]>
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							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Covering the Commons]]>
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							<![CDATA[Global]]>
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							<![CDATA[Air Pollution, carbon, Carbon Emissions, Climate Change, Emission Reduction, Environment, Green, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, and Nitrous Oxide]]>
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							<![CDATA[When Milan Klöwer spoke to Mongabay, he was fresh off the train in Germany. As a postdoctoral researcher and climate scientist at the University of Oxford, Klöwer said he does his best to avoid flying in planes — one of the worst climate change culprits. “We&#8217;re climate scientists and we try to also lower our [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[When Milan Klöwer spoke to Mongabay, he was fresh off the train in Germany. As a postdoctoral researcher and climate scientist at the University of Oxford, Klöwer said he does his best to avoid flying in planes — one of the worst climate change culprits. “We&#8217;re climate scientists and we try to also lower our own carbon footprint,” Klöwer said, “taking an airplane is the one activity which probably unites all of science in terms of where we are really high emitters.” Airplanes emit around 100 times more CO2 per hour than a shared bus or train ride, and the emissions of global aviation are around 1 billion tons of CO2 per year — more than the emissions of most countries, including Germany. Aviation contributes an estimated 2.4% of global annual CO2 emissions, most of it from commercial travel. However, Klöwer said, “Most people think of warming in terms of degrees, not tons of carbon emitted, so we wanted to calculate that.” Air travel contributes 4% to global warming, more than almost all countries. American Airlines currently has the largest commercial fleet. Photo by Mark Harkin via Flickr (CC BY 2.0) In a recent study published in the journal Environmental Research Letters, Klöwer and his colleagues calculated that aviation contributes around 4% to human-induced global warming and is projected to cause about 0.1° Celsius (0.2° Fahrenheit) of warming by 2050 if aviation continues growing at pre-pandemic rates. “These numbers don’t seem high,” Klöwer said, “but again, remember that is more&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2022/04/how-much-does-air-travel-warm-the-planet-new-study-gives-a-figure/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-254555</doi>				</item>
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					<title>We have turned the Amazon into a net greenhouse gas emitter: Study</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/03/we-have-turned-the-amazon-into-a-net-greenhouse-gas-emitter-study/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/03/we-have-turned-the-amazon-into-a-net-greenhouse-gas-emitter-study/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>19 Mar 2021 15:59:45 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Liz Kimbrough]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Liz Kimbrough]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Biodiversity, Black Carbon, Carbon Dioxide, Carbon Emissions, Climate Change, Conservation, Deforestation, Drought, Environment, Fires, Forest Destruction, Forests, Green, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Methane, Nitrous Oxide, Ozone Layer, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, Research, Threats To Rainforests, and Tropical Forests]]>
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											<description>
							<![CDATA[Something is wrong in the lungs of the world. Decades of burning, logging, mining and development have tipped the scales, and now the Amazon Basin may be emitting more greenhouse gases than it absorbs. Most of the conversation about climate change is dominated by carbon dioxide. While CO2 plays a critical role in the complex [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Something is wrong in the lungs of the world. Decades of burning, logging, mining and development have tipped the scales, and now the Amazon Basin may be emitting more greenhouse gases than it absorbs. Most of the conversation about climate change is dominated by carbon dioxide. While CO2 plays a critical role in the complex climate equation, other forces such as methane, nitrous oxide, aerosols and black carbon are also factors. In a first-of-its-kind effort, a group of 31 scientists calculated the balance of all natural and human-caused greenhouse gases coming in and out of the massive Amazon Basin. The team concluded that warming of the atmosphere from agents other than CO2 likely exceeds the climate benefits the Amazon provides via CO2 uptake. Or more simply: due to humans, the Amazon Basin is now a net greenhouse gas (GHG) emitter. “I would highlight that that natural greenhouse emissions from ecosystems aren’t causing climate change,” the study’s lead author, Kristofer Covey, an assistant professor at Skidmore College told Mongabay. “It’s the many human disturbances underway in the basin that are contributing to climate change.” Fire next to the borders of the Kaxarari Indigenous Land, in Lábrea, Amazonas state. Fires n the Amazon are caused by humans, typically set to clear forests for agriculture. Taken 17 Aug, 2020. CREDIT: © Christian Braga / Greenpeace. Earth receives constant energy from the sun. Climate-forcing factors in the atmosphere, such as greenhouse gases, act like a blanket, trapping that heat energy on Earth. When there’s more&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/03/we-have-turned-the-amazon-into-a-net-greenhouse-gas-emitter-study/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>CO2 concentrations hit new high last year</title>
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					<pubDate>06 Nov 2013 17:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[The concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere hit a record high last year, according to a new report by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). While this was not a surprise given still-rising global emissions, the concentration rose significantly more than the average this decade. According to the WMO&#8217;s annual greenhouse gas bulletin, CO2 concentrations [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere hit a record high last year, according to a new report by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). While this was not a surprise given still-rising global emissions, the concentration rose significantly more than the average this decade. According to the WMO&#8217;s annual greenhouse gas bulletin, CO2 concentrations hit 393.1 parts per million (ppm) in 2012. WMO Secretary-General Michel Jarraud said the findings &#8220;highlight yet again how heat-trapping gases from human activities have upset the natural balance of our atmosphere and are a major contribution to climate change.&#8221; He added, &#8220;as a result of this, our climate is changing, our weather is more extreme, ice sheets and glaciers are melting and sea levels are rising.&#8221; CO2 concentrations rose 2.2 ppm from 2011 levels, nearly 9 percent higher than the decade average rise of 2.02 ppm. While 2012 was notable for being the first year that scientists measured levels above 400 ppm, carbon dioxide concentrations are not even throughout the atmosphere and shift slightly during the year. The WMO bases its report on an annual average of measured concentrations. Pre-industrial levels of carbon dioxide were averaged around 278 ppm and many experts say we need to reign in concentrations to about 350 ppm in order to avoid the worse impacts. The report also found that CO2 concentrations were not the only greenhouse gas on the rise. Methane also hit a new record of 1,819 parts per billion (ppb), while nitrous oxide hit a record&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2013/11/co2-concentrations-hit-new-high-last-year/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Hotter and hotter: concentrations of greenhouse gases hit another new record</title>
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					<pubDate>20 Nov 2012 17:36:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[As expected, greenhouse gas concentrations in the Earth&#8217;s atmosphere hit another record last year, according to a new UN World Meteorological Organization (WMO). The increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases means that radiative forcing&#8212;changes in the atmosphere&#8217;s energy balance that leads to warming&#8212;has jumped 30 percent in the last twenty years. Carbon hit 390.9 parts per [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[As expected, greenhouse gas concentrations in the Earth&#8217;s atmosphere hit another record last year, according to a new UN World Meteorological Organization (WMO). The increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases means that radiative forcing&#8212;changes in the atmosphere&#8217;s energy balance that leads to warming&#8212;has jumped 30 percent in the last twenty years. Carbon hit 390.9 parts per million in 2011, while methane and nitrous oxide also hit new highs: 1,813 parts per billion for methane and 324.2 parts per billion for nitrous oxide. The news comes just days before the next UN Climate Summit kicks off in Doha, Qatar. In addition, yesterday the World Bank released a grim report on the world&#8217;s current global warming trajectory, even if nations keep all of their pledges on emissions cuts. The report found that by the end of the century, if not before, global temperatures will rise 4 degree Celsius above pre-industrial levels. &#8220;A world in which warming reaches 4°C above preindustrial levels [..] would be one of unprecedented heat waves, severe drought, and major floods in many regions, with serious impacts on human systems, ecosystems, and associated services,&#8221; the World Bank report warns, noting that there will be &#8220;a rapidly rising risk of crop yield reductions as the world warms.&#8221; Related articles World Bank: 4 degrees Celsius warming would be miserable (11/20/2012) A new report by the World Bank paints a bleak picture of life on Earth in 80 years: global temperatures have risen by 4 degrees Celsius spurring rapidly rising sea levels and&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2012/11/hotter-and-hotter-concentrations-of-greenhouse-gases-hit-another-new-record/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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