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'Transformative change' needed: One million species risk extinction
Planet Earth is facing an extinction crisis thanks to human consumption, according to a major new report. But it's not too late to turn things around.
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Deep water seagrass meadows are untapped carbon sinks
Undersea vegetation holds on to more more carbon from the atmosphere than scientists thought.
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Soil takes decades to catch up to climate changes
Soil bacteria often take 50 years or more to react to changes in climate.
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Climate change is pushing tropical cyclones poleward
Typhoons are becoming more destructive at northern latitudes, according to the first long-term study to document how the storms in East Asia are drifting toward the poles.
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Vast wind and solar farms would bring more rain to Africa
Scientists want to power the world with solar and wind energy, a feat they say is possible with large-scale wind and solar farms.
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A pipeline to capture carbon dioxide and store it underground
The energy industry could feasibly build a pipeline to capture carbon dioxide and put it in deep storage, but only if the government is willing to step in.
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Climate change will drastically alter earth’s vegetation
Climate change from rising carbon dioxide emissions means the biodiversity of Earth's plant life will be wildly different in the future.
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