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Australia rejects forest biomass in first blow to wood pellet industry

Justin Catanoso 21 Dec 2022
Dr Samuel Mathenge Ngatia, a veterinarian in the Gilgil District, Kenya, at work. Image courtesy of HealthforAnimals.

Better livestock health reduces carbon emissions (commentary)

Carel du Marchie Sarvaas 20 Dec 2022

To cut emissions from cattle ranching, beef up the soil, study says

Shanna Hanbury 20 Dec 2022
Wildebeest in the savannas.

Counterintuitive: Large wild herbivores may help slow climate change

Tim Vernimmen 13 Dec 2022
Kelp forest.

Peat on land and kelp at sea as Argentina protects tip of Tierra del Fuego

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 8 Dec 2022
A howling wolf

Animating the Carbon Cycle: Earth’s animals vital allies in CO2 storage

Mark Hillsdon 8 Dec 2022

As EU finalizes renewable energy plan, forest advocates condemn biomass

Justin Catanoso 7 Dec 2022
A deforestated site in Edenton, North Carolina.

Whistleblower: Enviva claim of ‘being good for the planet… all nonsense’

Justin Catanoso 5 Dec 2022

Sri Lanka university aims to be the country’s first to go carbon neutral

Malaka Rodrigo 26 Nov 2022

COP27 boosts carbon trading and ‘non-market’ conservation: But can they save forests?

Alec Luhn 22 Nov 2022
Smoke from a factory chimney.

Carbon offsets: A key tool for climate action, or a license to emit?

Ian Morse 4 Nov 2022

Early retirement for Indonesian coal plants could cut CO2, boost jobs, analysis says

Hans Nicholas Jong 20 Oct 2022
Fire in Indonesia forest

Pandemic dip was just a blip as global emissions rebound, report shows

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 22 Sep 2022
Global forest carbon map

New tech aims to track carbon in every tree, boost carbon market integrity

Carolyn Cowan 19 Sep 2022

EU votes to keep woody biomass as renewable energy, ignores climate risk

Justin Catanoso 16 Sep 2022

Indonesia and Norway give REDD+ deal another go after earlier breakup

Hans Nicholas Jong 12 Sep 2022
Mangrove forest on Nosy Lonjo, Antsiranana, Madagascar. Image by Kenguinaud via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

The Western Indian Ocean lost 4% of its mangroves in 24 years, report finds

Mark Hillsdon 7 Sep 2022
A truck carrying acacia logs in Indonesia

Biomass cofiring loopholes put coal on open-ended life support in Asia

Annelise Giseburt 29 Aug 2022
Giant kelp (Macrocystis pyrifera)

Scientists strive to restore world’s embattled kelp forests

Elizabeth Devitt 6 Jul 2022

‘That’s a scam’: Indian firm’s REDD+ carbon deal in the DRC raises concern

John Cannon 14 Jun 2022
The Hudson Bay Lowland landscape is as much water as land. The deep peat soils of the region store billions of tonnes of carbon. Image courtesy of WCS Canada.

Canada mining push puts major carbon sink and Indigenous lands in the crosshairs

Spoorthy Raman 2 Jun 2022
Wood chips for biomass burning at Tofte, Norway. Image by Statkraft via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

As biomass burning surges in Japan and South Korea, where will Asia get its wood?

Annelise Giseburt 19 May 2022

EU Parliament’s Environment Committee urges scale back of biomass burning

Justin Catanoso 18 May 2022
Timber for biomass burning at Tofte, Norway

Missing the emissions for the trees: Biomass burning booms in East Asia

Justin Catanoso 11 May 2022

Beyond CO2, tropical forests a ‘cool’ solution to climate crisis, study finds

John Cannon 22 Apr 2022
Damselfish on the coral reef in Komodo National Park in Indonesia. Image by Rhett A. Butler.

Climate pledges could limit warming to 2C. What’s needed is action, study says

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 13 Apr 2022

How much does air travel warm the planet? New study gives a figure

Liz Kimbrough 6 Apr 2022
Logging Camp on Fergusson Island, PNG.

PNG suspends new carbon deals, scrambles to write rules for the schemes

Rachel Donald 4 Apr 2022

Indonesian bill turns coal-derived fuels clean by ignoring true scale of emissions

Hans Nicholas Jong 29 Mar 2022

Stamping out savanna fires doesn’t bolster carbon sink by much, study finds

Mongabay.com 23 Mar 2022

NGOs alert U.N. to furtive 2-million-hectare carbon deal in Malaysian Borneo

John Cannon 17 Mar 2022
Intact rainforest in Indonesian Borneo. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Study: Indonesia’s forest-clearing moratorium underdelivered — but so did donors

Hans Nicholas Jong 15 Mar 2022

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