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Needle-leaf trees most abundant globally, but broadleaves store more carbon -study
CP Daily: Monday October 23, 2023
Washington carbon market traders pursue appeals following auction participation ban -media
Financial, methodological barriers preventing rural sector participation in US voluntary carbon market -govt report
Washington lays out potential cap-and-invest changes to facilitate WCI linkage
Seven Brazilian states sign regional carbon market agreement
Australian solar projects face insurance crisis as climate impacts take hold
Some solar projects haven't been able to get the kind of insurance coverage they've wanted, particularly in regions seen to be more affected by hail storms.
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Death Valley visitors delight in rare ephemeral lakes left behind by storm
Shimmering bodies of water have appeared in the sand dunes of the recently reopened national park after a summer deluge
After months of closure, visitors to Death Valley national park are being greeted by stunning new features, including lakes left behind by a ferocious summer deluge.
The park reopened last week after being shuttered in August, when a record-breaking tropical storm unleashed a year’s worth of rain in a single day.
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Remember the climate map from your school atlas? Here's what climate change is doing to it
Centralised private sector biodiversity fund could help hit global targets, says research organisation
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‘We can’t live in this’: the tightknit Chesterfield street devastated by flooding
Neighbours speak of heartbreak from row of terraces where Maureen Gilbert, 83, was found dead after Storm Babet
Almost every square inch of the houses along Tapton Terrace in Chesterfield is covered in a thick layer of wet brown mud.
Inside the homes, brown lines across the walls show that water levels reached a height of 1.5 metres (5ft).
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Sea-level rise: West Antarctic ice shelf melt 'unavoidable'
Rapid ice melt in west Antarctica now inevitable, research shows
Sea level will be driven up no matter how much carbon emissions are cut, putting coastal cities in danger
Accelerated ice melt in west Antarctica is inevitable for the rest of the century no matter how much carbon emissions are cut, research indicates. The implications for sea level rise are “dire”, scientists say, and mean some coastal cities may have to be abandoned.
The ice sheet of west Antarctica would push up the oceans by 5 metres if lost completely. Previous studies have suggested it is doomed to collapse over the course of centuries, but the new study shows that even drastic emissions cuts in the coming decades will not slow the melting.
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