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'Transformative change' needed: One million species risk extinction
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'Transformative change' needed: One million species risk extinction

Planet Earth is facing an extinction crisis thanks to human consumption, according to a major new report. But it's not too late to turn things around.
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Deep water seagrass meadows are untapped carbon sinks
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Deep water seagrass meadows are untapped carbon sinks

Undersea vegetation holds on to more more carbon from the atmosphere than scientists thought.
Soil takes decades to catch up to climate changes
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Soil takes decades to catch up to climate changes

Soil bacteria often take 50 years or more to react to changes in climate.
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Climate change is pushing tropical cyclones poleward
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Climate change is pushing tropical cyclones poleward

Typhoons are becoming more destructive at northern latitudes, according to the first long-term study to document how the storms in East Asia are drifting toward the poles.

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Vast wind and solar farms would bring more rain to Africa

Vast wind and solar farms would bring more rain to Africa

Scientists want to power the world with solar and wind energy, a feat they say is possible with large-scale wind and solar farms.

A pipeline to capture carbon dioxide and store it underground
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A pipeline to capture carbon dioxide and store it underground

The energy industry could feasibly build a pipeline to capture carbon dioxide and put it in deep storage, but only if the government is willing to step in.
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Climate change will drastically alter earth’s vegetation
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Climate change will drastically alter earth’s vegetation

Climate change from rising carbon dioxide emissions means the biodiversity of Earth's plant life will be wildly different in the future.
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