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Climate change: why we can’t rely on regrowing coastal habitats to offset carbon emissions

Climate change: why we can’t rely on regrowing coastal habitats to offset carbon emissions: Akuditaputri/Shutterstock Removing several hundred billion tonnes of carbon from the atmosphere is now considered necessary to avert the worst effects of climate change. Using nature to help achieve that goal, by allowing habitats to regenerate, would seem to offer a win-win …

Amazon: regrowing forests have offset less than 10% of carbon emissions from deforestation

Amazon: regrowing forests have offset less than 10% of carbon emissions from deforestation: Nowaczyk/Shutterstock Driven largely by the expansion of farm land to meet increasing global demand for products such as soya bean, loggers have cleared over 810,000 km² of forest in the Amazon – an area nearly as big as Norway and Sweden combined. …

There aren’t enough trees in the world to offset society’s carbon emissions – and there never will be

There aren’t enough trees in the world to offset society’s carbon emissions – and there never will be: A tropical rainforest in South America. Shutterstock/BorneoRimbawan One morning in 2009, I sat on a creaky bus winding its way up a mountainside in central Costa Rica, light-headed from diesel fumes as I clutched my many suitcases. …

Heineken’s European beer sales fall offset by rise in Africa, Asia

South Africa in the news: Heineken’s European beer sales fall offset by rise in Africa, Asia: Heineken NV, the world’s second-largest brewer, fared better than expected at the start of 2021 as increased beer sales in Africa and Asia offset a sharp decline in Europe. The maker of Europe’s …: “South Africa” – BingNews India …

South Africa faces mass hunger if efforts to offset impact of COVID-19 are eased

South Africa faces mass hunger if efforts to offset impact of COVID-19 are eased: Children receive biscuits and other foods from the Groundbreakers community feeding programme in Ocean View, Cape Town. EPA-EFE/Nic Bothma When South Africa entered a hard lockdown on 27 March, the government was globally recognised for taking tough steps to “flatten the …

Increase in global life expectancy offset by war, obesity, and substance abuse

South Africa in the news: Increase in global life expectancy offset by war, obesity, and substance abuse: a GBD collaborator from South Africa who serves as a Professor of Clinical Epidemiology at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, in Cape Town. “Policymakers in all nations – from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe – can …