How wildlife can help curb global warming

A new study shows that protecting wildlife can play a huge role in carbon storage and limiting climate change. Read what animals make a big difference.

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Thorpe votes with Coalition on Indigenous land council inquiry – as it happened

From 10h ago The independent senator, Lidia Thorpe, has voted with the Coalition for a motion to inquire into Indigenous bodies including land councils. The motion was defeated 30 votes to 29. In January Guardian Australia revealed that Thorpe put…

Biden’s Anti-U.S. Mining Climate Agenda Is Making China Stronger

Interior Secretary Deb Haaland acknowledged Tuesday that the Biden administration’s climate agenda, which is reliant on global critical mineral supply chains, is strengthening China. During a House Appropriations Committee hearing on her agency’s proposed 2024 budget, Haaland was repeatedly grilled…

Climate Doomsayers Are Always Wrong — But Cling To Their Anti-Human Faith

What does it take to avert the end of the world? For most of human history, this has been a question for religion. And the answer has usually been that human beings must repent of their sins. They must surrender…

Net zero tsar and senior Tories among those urging biomass subsidies rethink

The UK government should rethink its subsidies for burning wood for fuel, former Conservative ministers and the net zero tsar have said. The energy company Drax, which burns forest biomass, made £893m in direct government subsidies in 2021. The level…

‘Rewilding’ Parts of the Planet Could Have Big Climate Benefits – InsideClimate News

Restoring populations of land and marine animals in targeted “rewilding” zones would speed up biological carbon pumps that remove carbon dioxide from the air and sequester the greenhouse gas where it doesn’t harm the climate, new research shows. An international…

Restoring just nine groups of animals could help combat global warming – New Scientist

As a top predator, grey wolves can make an important contribution to carbon removal from the atmosphere Tim Fitzharris/Minden Pictures/Alamy Restoring the populations of a few important groups of animals could help capture huge amounts of carbon from the air…

It’s not perfect, but the Labor-Greens climate deal should limit emissions and fossil fuels. That matters

The safeguard mechanism is a better policy to deal with major industrial greenhouse gas emissions after a deal between the Albanese government and the Greens. It is not perfect, it is needlessly complicated and there are still things to be…

Climate change: trees grow for extra month as planet warms – study – BBC

Andrew Lichtenstein/Getty Global warming is changing the way trees grow, new research suggests. Researchers studying hardwoods in northwest Ohio say a century of warming has extended their annual growing season by a month on average. The scientists from Ohio State…

Climate change is killing Michoacan’s monarch butterfly population – The Washington Post

Every year, millions of monarch butterflies make their way across North America to spend winters in the same forests of central Mexico’s Michoacán state — a phenomenon that remains an evolutionary mystery. But in just one year, the population of…