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Huang Runqiu and Steven Guilbeault

Countries agree landmark deal to halt global decline in nature by 2030

19 December 2022

Nations have pledged to "reverse biodiversity loss" by 2030 at the COP15 summit, but campaigners say the deal doesn't do enough to ensure accountability
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COP15: China calls for action as biodiversity talks break down

15 December 2022

Negotiations at the COP15 biodiversity summit in Montreal broke down over how to fund new agreements to safeguard nature
This image is from a temporary thermal camera located on the north rim of Mauna Loa's summit caldera. The temperature scale is in degrees Celsius up to a maximum of 500 degrees (932 degrees Fahrenheit) for this camera model, and scales automatically based on the maximum and minimum temperatures on the caldera floor and not the whole frame, which sometimes results in the rim (bottom of image) looking saturated (white). Thick fume, image pixel size and other factors often result in image temperatures being lower than actual surface temperatures. https://www.usgs.gov/media/webcams/mtcam-mokuaweoweo-caldera-thermal-northwest-rim 28/11/22 05:00 local time

Hawaii’s Mauna Loa volcano is erupting for the first time since 1984

28 November 2022

For the first time in nearly 40 years, the world’s largest active volcano is erupting in Hawaii, after weeks of increased activity at the caldera

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