carbon
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To Save Forests, Researchers Are Hooking Trees Up To Twitter
In July 2018, a century-old red oak went live on Twitter. The account @awitnesstree, tweeting from the Harvard Forest in Petersham, Massachusetts, introduces itself in its bio: Witnessing life as a tree in a changing environment for more than a century. Views are my own – sort of (data translated by scientists and communicators at…
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Some Truly Disruptive Suggestions for Elon Musk’s $130 Million Carbon Sequestration Prize
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk announced in a tweet on Thursday night he will be give a $US100 ($130) million prize for the “best” carbon capture technology. Very exciting!
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Across the World, Trees are Growing Faster, Dying Younger and Will Soon Store Less Carbon
As the world warms and the atmosphere becomes increasingly fertilised with carbon dioxide, trees are growing ever faster. But they’re also dying younger – and overall, the world’s forests may be losing their ability to store carbon. That’s the key finding of our new study, published in the journal Nature Communications. In a world without…
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Australia’s Bushfires Dumped 400 Million Tonnes Of Emissions Into Atmosphere
Despite a recent deluge on Australia’s east coast, which put out many of the raging fires persisting from late 2019, their impact on the environment continues to linger. A new report shows the sheer scale of the amount of carbon emissions the fires released into the atmosphere.