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Drought and wildfire are quietly weakening Earth’s carbon defenses https://www.earth.com/plants/drought-and-wildfire-are-quietly-weakening-earths-carbon-defenses/ #environment #weather #drought #wildfire #wildfires #carbon

Indonesia's El Niño–driven peat fires are choking the region—and releasing centuries of stored carbon https://phys.org/news/2026-10-indonesia-el-niodriven-peat-region.html #Indonesia #environment #weather #ElNino #peatland #wildfire #wildfires #carbon

Humans are turning the Amazon rainforest into a carbon source https://www.earth.com/climate/humans-are-turning-the-amazon-rainforest-into-a-carbon-source/ #Amazon #environment #forest #rainforest #carbon

'The current fuel load in some Australian forests is not “natural”. It is a product of colonisation, which loaded Australian landscapes with fuel [because] frontier violence and massacres between the 1830s and 1860s removed [people] and disrupted a millennia-long relationship of care.' https://theconversation.com/colonisation-not-climate-change-first-primed-these-forests-to-burn-292997 #community #conservation #climateChange #indigenous #wildfires #Australia #eucalyptus #carbon

" #Brazil is globally relevant because more than 60 percent of the planet’s largest tropical rainforest lies within its borders. This is what makes the far right’s advance in the first round of the elections a concern to the entire world population. To fail to realize this is to fail to grasp what is at stake in our era—and failing to grasp what is at stake today might cost the future of our children and the children of other species, species whose parents cannot vote but are directly affected by our good or bad choices. If Flávio Bolsonaro beats Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in the runoff, there is a high probability the Forest will cease to exist as Forest, which means it will no longer function as a climate regulator or carbon sink, absorbing one of the gases that produces global heating. There will be bare land, converted for grazing cattle, raising soybean monoculture, and extracting ores and oil, but there will be no Forest. There will be other types of vegetation, but there will be no Forest. The rainfall cycle will be altered, and even the agribusiness sector that today destroys the Forest and cheers on Flávio Bolsonaro will lose, and lose big. This is the very near future looming before us. But it seems Brazil and the world have not realized this clearly enough." https://sumauma.com/en/o-que-vai-acontecer-com-a-floresta-e-com-a-gente-se-flavio-bolsonaro-ganhar/ #elections #rainforest #amazon #environment #Lula #bolsonaro #climate #climatecrisis #carbon

Gentle giant pachyderms #African forest #elephants 🐘🐘 are the unsung heroes helping #climatechange. They capture #carbon in the #DRC’s 🇨🇩🌳rainforest! Help them survive with your supermarket choices #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetectives@mastodonapp.uk

@UnequalExchange@lemmy.world But it requires bravery up front, not the skittering desperation of waiting for war. #Minneapolis #wind #resistance #solar #democacy #courage #vrilliance #unicorn #trex #solar #carbon #climate

Despite #aviation ✈️ and #palmoil industry #greenwashing, #climate experts predict “Sustainable” Aviation Fuel or #SAF will flush gigatonnes of rainforest #carbon into the sky. We demand better! #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife 🌴 🔥🚫 @palmoildetectives@mastodonapp.uk

Bristol City Council Bans High-Carbon Ads, Including Flights And Fast Fashion https://plantbasednews.org/news/environment/bristol-council-bans-high-carbon-ads/ #Bristol #environment #ads #carbon

"From the last boreal forests in Sweden to plantations in Brazil, via the New Zealand countryside and the wide open spaces of Poland and Romania, Disclose has traced the Swedish multinational’s supply chain." A 90-minute documentary sheds new light on the insatiable appetite of the forest ogre: https://disclose.ngo/en/investigations/ikea-the-tree-hunter @climate#Ikea #DiscloseNGO #forests #CO2 #emissions #carbon #DiscloseNGO #quotas #deforestation #industry #industrialization #carbonFootprint #climateChange #furniture #Sweden

Timber-production forests are twice less likely to burn as timber plantations: "We find plantations in temperate regions were twice as likely to suffer stand-replacing wildfires than natural production forests, including in vital timber-producing nations like China and Russia. Plantations in tropical regions showed no clear effect". Bousfield et al. (2025). "Global risk of wildfire across timber production systems" https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-59272-6 #plantations #forests #wildfires #carbon #GHG #climateChange #emissions #CO2

Heat-related lost labor emerges as a major cost of carbon emissions https://phys.org/news/2026-09-lost-labor-emerges-major-carbon.html #environment #weather #temperature #heat #society #labor #carbon #emissions

A global meta-analysis of #soil #organic #carbon in the #Anthropocene

Trawling threatens vital carbon stores in Scotland's sea lochs https://phys.org/news/2026-09-trawling-threatens-vital-carbon-scotland.html #Scotland #sea #environment #marinelife #trawling #carbon

Fossil-fuel carbon fingerprint reaches the deep North Atlantic https://phys.org/news/2026-08-fossil-fuel-carbon-fingerprint-deep.html #NorthAtlantic #environment #fossilfuel #fossilfuels #carbon

Human activity is pushing lakes beyond their natural carbon limits https://phys.org/news/2026-08-human-lakes-natural-carbon-limits.html #lakes #environment #carbon

Proposed London datacentre ‘incompatible’ with net zero with 1m-tonne carbon footprint https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/aug/21/proposed-london-datacentre-will-have-annual-carbon-footprint-of-27000-flights-to-new-york #London #environment #NetZero #datacenter #carbon

Across 165 countries, the highest GHG emissions from diet are among highly educated urban men aged 15-34. Median is 5.7 kgCO2e/day, against 2.9 for rural women aged 35-54 with low education. In others words, the impact on climate is roughly double in a group with more resources, choice, and agency. Visualizer: https://matilda.food/ #diet #food #beef #animalProduction #deforestation #imports #GHG #carbon #emissions #climateChange #globalWarming

Drying Lakebeds Are Releasing Massive Amounts of #Carbon, Study Finds The #AralSea Has Been Drying Up For 60 Years. New Research Shows It's Also Releasing Massive Amounts of Carbon The study estimates that between 1960 and 2022, the evaporating sea has released 204 megatons of #carbondioxide into the atmosphere, based on site surveys and core samples collected from across the dry lakebed. https://www.sciencealert.com/the-worlds-largest-dried-lakebed-is-leaking-vast-amounts-of-carbon-but-scientists-say-theres-a-solution #climate #climatechange

Happy birthday Rosalind Franklin (1920 – 1958), #chemist & x-ray #crystallographer whose x-ray diffraction images were instrumental to discovering double-helix structure of #DNA, made important contributions to #carbon & #virus research, was 1 of the great scientists of the 20th century.⁠ ⁠ Watson’s bio lead some to (inaccurately) joke, “What did Watson and Crick discover?” “Rosalind Franklin’s notes.” While it’s important 🧵1/ #linocut #printmaking #WomenInSTEM #histsci #mastoArt #sciart⁠