In an open letter to the government of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, several climate scientists call for a halt to the eviction of Lützerath. As the researchers of Scientists for Future write in their letter addressed to Minister-President Hendrik Wüst, Minister for Economic Affairs Mona Neubaur and Minister of the Interior Herbert Reul, […]
Instead of capturing carbon, regenerating rainforests on recently cleared land releases carbon for at least ten years. This is the result of a recent study published in the scientific journal PNAS.For the study, researchers led by Maria Mills of the University of Leicester examined eleven areas in Malaysia that had previously been deforested to varying […]
Sustainable palm oil production helps protect tropical rainforests – for example, in Indonesia, where deforestation rates have recently fallen sharply (Climate.Table reported). However, this can be at the expense of other species-rich ecosystems that are also important for the climate. This is indicated by a recent study published in the nature ecology & evolution journal. […]
The US Congress proposes the government in Washington provide one billion dollars of climate money for poor countries, reports the New York Times. The sum is significantly below President Joe Biden’s pledge, who said in 2024 the United States would provide 11.4 billion dollars “to ensure developing nations can transition to clean energy and adapt […]
Why did the concentration of methane in the atmosphere increase by 50 percent between 2019 and 2020, even though the economy in large parts of the world came to a virtual standstill due to the Covid pandemic? That has long puzzled researchers around the world. Now, a team of scientists has discovered clues pointing to […]
Mr. Poertner, how does the result of the biodiversity COP15 benefit the global climate?Climate action and biodiversity conservation go hand in hand. Both crises, climate change and species extinction, threaten the very existence of humankind and many other species. Among other things, the natural environment is a tremendous carbon sink. Almost one-third of global man-made […]
Indonesia seems to be succeeding in something that other countries find difficult: Over the past five years, deforestation has slowed sharply. Mikaela Weisse and Elisabeth Goldman of the World Resources Institute (WRI) analyzed the data released in spring and see it as a reason to celebrate.For a long time, Indonesia was one of the countries […]
To achieve the Paris climate targets, negative emissions are necessary. Almost all scenarios show this. The IPCC also considers them to be unavoidable. However, the technologies that can be used to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere are expensive and complex, and some of them are still at an early stage of development. This is […]
Should the Amazon rainforest cross an ecological tipping point, economic losses in Brazil, Peru, Colombia, Bolivia and Ecuador could amount to 256 billion US dollars. This is the result of model calculations by a group of researchers published in the journal Environmental Research Letters.Most of the Amazon region is located in the aforementioned five countries. […]
Tony Rinaudo was about to give up and go back to his homeland Australia with his family. It was the early 1980s. Rinaudo, at the time still a young agronomist with big goals, was driving a trailer full of tree seedlings across an empty, windswept plain in Niger, West Africa. For two and a half […]