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Studying the scale and intensity of previous fires can help us to detect thermal hotspots earlier and support faster, smarter crisis response and post-fire restoration.
Critics have taken aim at an Australian scheme meant to encourage forest regrowth. But independent assessments show the regeneration schemes are working
Nature-based solutions like mangrove restoration are key to climate action, but weak monitoring can overstate carbon storage, creating ‘ghost carbon’.
Carbon capture projects could provide the funds needed to restore land degraded by commercial farming and forestry.
Kenya faces extreme weather crises. Humanitarian aid must be part of the solution.
Madagascar’s protected area forests have 2.5km buffer zone forests surrounding them that also need urgent protection.
Carbon offsets in Zimbabwe pay for new garden projects and clean energy stoves, but prevent local communities from using land that was previously communal.
Africa’s Great Green Wall of 6,000km of trees was launched 18 years ago, promising to halt desertification. But in Senegal, it’s been very slow to progress.
Governments have pledged vast areas for new forests, but much of this land may be unsuitable.
Reforestation can contribute significantly to tackling climate change, but research found its global potential is only a fraction of what’s been claimed.
Kenya plans to plant 15 billion trees to combat climate change.
Removing enough carbon to offset emissions would require vast tracts of inhabited land.
As world leaders gather at COP29 to consider reducing emissions, the latest global carbon budget shows CO₂ emissions from fossil fuels are still going up, not down, despite some promising signs.
It’s vital we find cost-effective ways to get and keep more trees in the ground. Our research looked at where natural regeneration is likely to be successful due to environmental conditions.
Deforestation can make landslides more likely. But by itself, replanting trees isn’t enough to remove the risk.
In Madagascar, communities and scientists are growing tens of thousands of baobab seedlings to restore the 1,000-year-old forests.
Planting millions of trees in natural grassland is largely ineffective in the battle against global warming because it adds little or no additional carbon storage.
Planting trees to remove carbon from the atmosphere will only be effective alongside other strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
The most comprehensive Australian carbon budget assessment completed to date shows the nation flip-flops from source to sink of carbon emissions, depending on the prevailing conditions.
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Chief Research Scientist, CSIRO Environment; Executive Director, Global Carbon Project, CSIRO
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Senior Research Fellow, School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Researcher, Center for International Climate and Environment Research - Oslo
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Royal Society Research Professor of Climate Change Science, University of East Anglia
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Professor of Physical Geography and Land Use Systems, Department of Geography, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
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PhD candidate at the Centre of Ecology and Conservation, University of Exeter
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Professor of Earth System Science, UCL
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Chair, Mathematical Modelling of Climate, University of Exeter
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Senior Researcher, Center for International Climate and Environment Research - Oslo
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Helmholtz Young Investigator group leader and deputy head, Marine Biogeosciences section at the Alfred Wegener Institute, Universität Bremen
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Agente de transfert de connaissances pour le Centre de recherche sur la boréalie (CREB), Université du Québec à Chicoutimi (UQAC)
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Professor of Forest Restoration, Universidade de São Paulo (USP)
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Research Associate in Climate Change Mitigation, University of Sheffield
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Professor of Plant Biology, University of Sheffield
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Lecturer in Atmospheric Radiation, Composition and Climate, University of Reading