Warming at the Third Pole has increased vegetation growth that can, in turn, slow down warming.
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Climate Smart Agricultural Policy Requires a Reform of Incentives to Minimize Emissions From Cultivated Peat Soils
Post-2020 Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) must safeguard and stimulate the preservation of carbon-rich soils through protection of peatlands. Functional peatlands are the most space efficient long-term carbon store and sink in our planet’s biosphere.
Stronger Atlantic Currents Drive Temperate Species to Migrate Towards the Artic Ocean
The Arctic Ocean increasingly resembles the Atlantic, not only regarding its temperature but also the species that live there.
A Forest and Its History, Threatened
In wake of wildfires, paleobotanist Peter Wilf and his colleagues call attention to the importance of Australia's ancient forests and their living fossils.
Protecting the High Seas
Often considered desolate, remote, unalterable places, the high seas are, in fact, hotbeds of activity for both people and wildlife.
Indigenous Knowledge Could Reveal Ways to Weather Climate Change on Islands
Some islands have such low elevation, that mere inches of sea-level rise will flood them, but higher, larger islands will also be affected by changes in climate and an understanding of ancient practices in times of climate change might help populations survive, according to researchers.