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Landmark 20-year study of climate change impact on permafrost forests

Landmark 20-year study of climate change impact on permafrost forests

In perhaps the first long-term study of CO2 fluxes in northern forests growing on permafrost, an Osaka Metropolitan University-led research team has found that climate change increased not only the sources of carbon, but also the CO2 sinks. The 20-year observation from 2003-2022 in the interior of Alaska showed that while CO2 sinks turned into … Read more

UK climate strategy ruled lawful in landmark court case

UK climate strategy ruled lawful in landmark court case

FoE and two men affected by climate change lost their case against the UK government. A man whose home had to be demolished because of coastal erosion lost a landmark legal claim on Friday against the UK government that accused it of failing to meet obligations to protect citizens from the effects of climate change. … Read more

She wanted ‘the world’ for her daughter. Instead, she got a landmark prison sentence

Ruqia Haidari was the baby of the family. The youngest of five children, she was born in Afghanistan in 1999, just a month before her father, a fruit and vegetable seller, was killed by the Taliban. So desperate was her mother to protect her children that she fled with the four youngest – all aged … Read more