We wanted to find out how much carbon and nitrogen is being released from the northern permafrost. Here’s the region’s first full greenhouse gas budget covering CO₂, methane, and nitrous oxide.
Is it a lovely autumn day, or is America burning to the ground?
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The Svalbard Global Seed Vault has a practical mission – protecting seeds as a backup for seed banks around the world – but inspires strong cultural, political and artistic reactions.
One Health is based on an understanding that our health and that of animals, plants and ecosystems are interdependent.
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Without a national One Health plan, Canada is vulnerable to threats from worsening climate change, accelerating biodiversity loss, pandemics and superbugs.
As Cleveland emerged as a major manufacturing centre, the Cuyahoga River became heavily affected by industrial pollution and regularly caught fire.
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The future of these job-generating gigafactories, many of them in Republican states, could be at risk if the next president tries to wipe out the programs that made them possible.
A mature Peach Blossom Jellyfish is seen close-up in Kahnawake Quarry in Kahnawake, Que. in October 2024.
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While governments at COP16 make glacial progress on protecting nature, what billions of people choose to do individually can add up to make a big difference.
Indigenous land management in southeastern Australia halved forest shrub cover 6,000 years ago, reducing high-intensity bushfires
Further warming hugely increases the risk we will pass climate tipping points, such as the collapse of Greenland’s ice sheet.
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