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Shell Turns To Forests and Earth To Soak Up Its Emissions
2021-02-12 15:03:15| OGI
Shell wants to ramp up its use of nature-based carbon offsets, which include forestation projects, to 120 million tonnes a year by 2030.
Is the city trying to soak houseboat residents?
2018-01-17 21:38:43| PortlandOnline
Steve Law in the Portland Tribune, January 11, 2018
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How Northern European waters soak up carbon dioxide
2016-02-25 16:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: The seas around the UK and the rest of northern Europe take up a staggering 24 million tonnes of carbon each year. It is a mass equivalent to two million double-decker buses or 72,000 747 jets. The number was produced by scientists studying the movement of carbon dioxide into and out of the oceans. The team, led by Heriot-Watt University and Exeter University, has produced a software "engine" that will allow other scientists to do the same for different parts of the globe. "It's a software toolbox...
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Fires smoulder and floods soak Sumatra as RSPO calls for palm oil reform
2015-11-19 19:06:36| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Recent rain has brought a marked improvement to air pollution levels in most parts of the archipelago but localized spikes in wildfires continue to threaten air quality. The International Red Cross is implementing a three-month emergency response plan through January next year. An RSPO official calls on palm oil companies to make public all concession maps and plans for development on those concessions. The Indonesian military said on Thursday conditions in South Sumatra had improved but...
African crops, economies at risk as El Nino threatens to scorch & soak
2015-10-02 15:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Standing waist-deep in a hole, South African maize farmer Tom van Rooyen digs at the side with a small pickaxe. "There is moisture 25 centimeters down but nothing beyond that. If we get below-average rains, it will be a disaster," he said, wiping the red dust from his calloused hands. Poor rains are forecast for South Africa's maize belt because of the El Nino weather pattern, expected to bring more drought to already-parched southern regions in Africa and potential flooding in the east. This...