UK land now stores 7% more carbon than 300 years ago – what that means for the environment

By Victoria Janes-Bassett, Senior Research Associate in Sustainable Land Management, Lancaster University
Jess Davies, Chair Professor in Sustainability, Lancaster University

Limiting global warming to 1.5°C and avoiding the worst effects of climate change will take more than eliminating greenhouse gas emissions. The world will also need to capture and store a lot of carbon dioxide (CO₂) from the atmosphere.

Land offers one natural way of doing this. The soil and everything that grows in it, including all plants and trees, represents about half of all organic carbon globally. This is the carbon that’s bound up in living and decaying matter, as opposed…

Read complete article

~	If plastic manufacturing goes up 10%, plastic pollution goes up 10% – and we’re set for a huge surge in production

~	Ancient nomads you’ve probably never heard of disappeared from Europe 1,000 years ago. Now, DNA analysis reveals how they lived

~	Iran: Popular Rapper Sentenced to Death for Dissent

~	Global: Loss and Damage Fund for climate change must not restrict the role of civil society

~	The denial of Palestinian childhood

~	Detoxifying masculinity: How men’s groups reshape attitudes

~	How marketing classes can rescue ‘ugly produce’ from becoming food waste

~	EU Misses Opportunity on Frontex Transparency, Accountability

~	Honoring a Philippine Human Rights Icon

~	Fallout: an expertly crafted TV adaptation that manages to incorporate some of the best elements of gameplay