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Last month warmest September on record globally: EU

Marlowe Hood, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Oct 07 03:26 PM

Earth's surface was warmer last month than during any September on record, with temperatures since January tracking those of the hottest ever calendar year in 2016, the European Union's Earth Observation Programme said Wednesday. Read more »

Tree-planting rush overlooks climate benefits from natural forest recovery

Michael Taylor, Thomson Reuters Foundation
Posted at Sep 24 04:26 AM

KUALA LUMPUR - Leaving cleared tropical forests to regrow naturally has the potential to absorb a quarter of global carbon emissions from burning fossil fuels each year, researchers said on Wednesday. Read more »

CO2 makes trees live fast and die young: study

Agence France-Presse
Updated as of Sep 09 10:58 AM

LONDON - Trees that grow quickly die younger, risking a release of carbon dioxide that challenges forecasts that forests will continue to be a "sink" for planet-warming emissions, scientists said Tuesday. Read more »

Cooperate on climate or 'we will be doomed': UN chief

Kelly Macnamara, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Sep 09 04:06 AM

LONDON - World powers must pull together and retool their economies for a green future or humanity is "doomed", UN chief Antonio Guterres has warned, telling AFP that failure to control the coronavirus pandemic illustrates the danger of disunity. Read more »

Unilever to cut carbon footprint in cleaning items

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Sep 02 06:41 PM

Anglo-Dutch consumer giant Unilever on Wednesday unveiled a one-billion-euro plan to remove fossil fuels in the production of cleaning and laundry products which have experienced soaring demand from coronavirus-fearing consumers.   Read more »

Global warming makes tropical soils leak CO2: study

Marlowe Hood, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Aug 13 06:08 AM

Tropical forest soil warmed in experiments to levels consistent with end-of-century temperature projections released 55 percent more CO2 than control plots, exposing a previously underestimated source of greenhouse gas emissions, researchers reported Wednesday. Read more »

Investors step up pressure on global energy watchdog over climate change

Matthew Green and Jonas Ekblom, Reuters
Posted at Nov 18 10:34 PM

Fatih Birol, the head of the International Energy Agency (IEA), faced renewed pressure on Monday from investors and scientists concerned about climate change to overhaul the agency's projections for fossil fuel demand. Read more »

Asia's coal addiction puts chokehold on its air-polluted cities

Michael Taylor, Thomson Reuters Foundation
Posted at Mar 20 09:49 AM

KUALA LUMPUR - Over the past year, the number of patients treated each day in the hospital unit where cardiologist Ade Imasanti Sapardan works in Indonesia's capital has almost doubled to about 100. Read more »