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Spreading crushed rock over farmland can remove CO2 from the atmosphere if we do it right

Enhanced rock weathering could significantly boost CO2 removal from the atmosphere, but accurate measurement methods are essential.

Countries hope to reach the world's first treaty to end plastic pollution later this year (AFP)
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Countdown to Busan: is a plastic pollution treaty in reach?

Negotiators meet in less than a month to agree on the world's first treaty to end plastic pollution, but countries remain so far...

A report issued by nature watchdogs said only 17.6 percent of land and inland waters, and 8.4 percent of the ocean and coastal areas, are within protected and conserved areas (AFP)
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Big guns descend on Cali for final push in UN biodiversity talks

Heads of state, ministers and UN Secretary General Guterres arrive in Cali Tuesday hoping to add impetus to talks on ways to save...

Colombia Environment Minister and  COP16 president Susana Mohamad says more money is needed for a biodiversity fund (AFP)
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COP16 chair hails biodiversity attaining ‘equal footing’ with climate crisis

The world's biggest nature protection conference, under way in Cali, has placed biodiversity loss "on an equal footing" with the climate emergency.

Ginkgo trees are among the species at risk of extinction, according to a new report (AFP)
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One in three tree species at risk of extinction: report

More than one in three species of trees are at risk of extinction worldwide, according to a report published Monday.

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Crushed rock spread across Ontario fields in new push to capture carbon

A carbon capture partnership in Ontario is harnessing crushed rock to remove CO2 from the air and store it in soil.

The Canary Wharf skyline viewed through the haze from Alexandra Palace, north London (Victoria Jones/PA)
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Greenhouse gas concentrations surged to new record last year, UN experts warn

Levels of greenhouse gases surged to a record level in 2023, locking in future temperature rises for years to come.

FILE PHOTO: Smoke billows from a chimney at a combined-cycle gas turbine power plant while coinciding the COP28 is being held in Dubai, in Drogenbos, Belgium December 6, 2023. REUTERS/Yves Herman/File Photo
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Norway’s wealth fund falls short on climate ambitions, NGO says

Norway’s $1.8T wealth fund missed climate goals, backing only 4 of 21 key shareholder proposals on emissions targets in 2024.

Campaigners at Oxfam Scotland are urging First Minister John Swinney to have talks with the UK Govenrment so Scotland can introduce a new tax on ‘planet wrecking private jets’. (Nicholas T Ansell/PA)
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Scotland must act to tax ‘planet-wrecking private jets’, campaigners urge

Scotland urged to tax private jets, with Oxfam claiming their "reckless pollution" fuels climate crisis and extreme inequality.

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