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    Omanyano ovanhu koikundaneki yomalungula kashili paveta, Commisiner Sakaria takunghilile Veronika Haulenga

Carbon Dioxide

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Environment

Reforestation to capture carbon could be done much more cheaply, study says

  By Liz Kimbrough, via Mongabay   Trees are allies in the struggle against climate change, and regrowing forests to capture carbon may be cheaper than we thought. According to new research published in Nature Climate Change, a strategic mix of natural regrowth and tree planting could be the most cost-effective way to capture carbon. Researchers analyzed reforestation projects in 138 low- and middle-income countries to compare the costs of different […]

todayAugust 15, 2024 16

Uncategorized

Is Earth really getting too hot for people to survive? A scientist explains extreme heat and the role of climate change

Heat waves can get dangerously hot, especially when it’s also humid. gjohnstonphoto/iStock/Getty Images Plus     By Scott Denning, Colorado State University Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskidsus@theconversation.com. My parents said the planet is getting too hot for people to live here. They called it climate change. What does that mean? – […]

todayJune 17, 2024 13

Namibia

XPRIZE Finalists Step Up in Global Fight Against Climate Change

XPRIZE has unveiled the 20 finalist teams for the final stage of its Carbon Removal competition, highlighting innovative solutions to tackle the pressing challenge of excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. These teams, selected from a pool of over 1,300 applicants worldwide, represent a diverse range of approaches across air, ocean, land, and rocks tracks. Local Ecologist Peter Cuningham.    

todayMay 15, 2024 33

Environment

Electricity from farm waste: how biogas could help Malawians with no power

      By Ehiaze Ehimen, Atlantic Technological University and Thomas Robin, Atlantic Technological University   In sub-Saharan Africa, over 600 million people (more than 50% of the population) are without access to electricity. Malawi has one of the world’s lowest electricity access rates – just 14.1% of the total population have access to the main grid. In rural areas, the electrification access rate is even lower, estimated at 5.6% […]

todayMay 2, 2024 44

Entertainment

Wetlands are superheroes: expert sets out how they protect people and places

    By Jacqueline L Raw, Nelson Mandela University In the past, wetlands were often seen as undesirable landscapes – waterlogged areas that were difficult to navigate, impossible to build on or farm, and a source of pests such as mosquitoes. But the view on wetlands has shifted as we have learnt how important these ecosystems are for essential “services”. They purify water and provide habitats for plants and animals. […]

todayFebruary 1, 2024 31

Environment

Ocean heating breaks record, again, with disastrous outcomes for the planet

A lemon shark in the mangroves in the Bahamas. Image by Anita Kainrath / Ocean Image Bank. By Elizabeth Claire Alberts via Mongabay Human actions are rapidly changing the world’s oceans, whether through overfishing, pollution or coastal development. But among the most intense pressures placed on the seas right now is humanity’s ongoing burning of fossil fuels, pumping dangerous amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, which in turn has pushed sea temperatures to record levels. […]

todayJanuary 31, 2024 8

Africa

Congo’s blackwater Ruki River is a major transporter of forest carbon – new study

River Ruki. Photo by Matti Barthel, Author provided Travis Drake, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich; Johan Six, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, and Matti Barthel, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich The Congo Basin of central Africa is well known for its network of rivers that drain a variety of landscapes, from dense tropical forests to more arid and wooded savannas. Among the Congo River’s large tributaries, the […]

todayJanuary 22, 2024 15

Environment

Agricultural nitrogen pollution is global threat, but circular solutions await

By Claire Asher via MongaBay As the world grapples with escalating climate change, policymakers remain laser-focused on CO2, with humanity striving to decarbonize energy systems, capture carbon, issue carbon credits, and plant millions of trees to absorb emissions. But carbon dioxide is just one of several powerful greenhouse gases destabilizing the global climate, and just one of the human-produced pollutants severely impacting the natural world and threatening to push Earth out […]

todayJanuary 18, 2024 21

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