Fix the Planet newsletter: Can tree diversity help the climate?
3 February 2022
How we can harness the staggering diversity of trees to lock away more carbon
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Global vegetation stores decade of human carbon emissions underground
24 June 2021
Almost a quarter of the mass of the world’s forests, shrublands and grasslands is stored underground, according to a new global map, capturing a total amount of carbon on a par with a decade’s worth of human CO2 emissions
Climate change may make autumn leaves fall early and store less carbon
26 November 2020
Tree leaves could start falling earlier in autumn due to climate change. The finding suggests forests will store significantly less carbon than expected as temperatures rise
A sprinkle of rock dust could help avoid catastrophic climate change
8 July 2020
Spreading rock dust on cropland around the world could absorb a tenth of humanity's carbon budget, which would help avoid triggering catastrophic levels of global warming
CO2 levels hit record high despite emissions dip from coronavirus
4 June 2020
Global lockdown has done little to slow the rise in atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide, meaning that the coronavirus pandemic will have no impact on climate change
Huge amounts of carbon from forest fires ends up in the ocean
3 June 2020
About a third of the black carbon created when plants are partially burned ends up in oceans via rivers, a finding that helps us model carbon storage and climate change
Electric cars really are a greener option than fossil fuel vehicles
23 March 2020
Electric cars already have a bigger climate change impact than fossil-fuel burning cars in almost every part of the world, according to researchers
UK government refuses request to explain cost of hitting net zero
17 February 2020
The UK government has denied a freedom of information request to explain why it estimates the cost of hitting net-zero emissions by 2050 is £70 billion a year – much higher than an independent assessment found
The world started to wake up to climate change in 2019 – now what?
18 December 2019
At last, the public is calling for urgent action to tackle global warming and politicians are falling over themselves to get on board, says Adam Vaughan
Steel and concrete are climate change's hard problem. Can we solve it?
13 November 2019
Heavy industry produces more carbon dioxide than the entire US. Perfect the new technologies that could clean it up and we can score a crucial climate victory
