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"The authors report that the occurrence of extensive deforestation in tandem with climate change will cause the remaining rainforest to lose resilience at global-warming levels of or slightly higher than 1.5 °C — rather than 4 °C — above pre-industrial levels".

Wunderling, N., Sakschewski, B., Rockström, J. et al. "Deforestation-induced drying lowers Amazon climate threshold." (2026). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10456-0

#droughts #deforestation #landGrab #landUse #landUseChange #forests #forest #carbon #carbonSinks #carbonSink #footprint #Brazil #beef #cattle #Amazon #Amazonia #climateChange

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Eric Maugendre about carbon May 13

"Cascading transition risks towards degraded ecosystems in the #Amazon biome[:] The large majority of the simulated transitions is caused by spatial knock-on effects from increasing drought intensities, leading to long-ranging and self-propelling cascades on scales of hundreds to thousands of kilometres."

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10456-0

#droughts #deforestation #landGrab #landUse #landUseChange #forests #forest #carbon #carbonSinks #carbonSink #footprint #Brazil #Mercosur #beef #cattle #Amazonia

Ms. Que Banh Apr 17

#FlashbackFriday 2019.

Big Lonely Doug - one of the biggest #DouglasFir #trees in the world. Found along the Pacific Circle Route, between #PortRenfrew & Lake #Cowichan - in the Gordon River valley range. It's surrounded by clearcuts. You can't miss seeing it because it stands out, amongst the ecocide.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Lonely_Doug

#StopDeforestation #SaveOldGrowth #ProtectOldGrowth #BCForestryReform #PacheedahtTerritory #VancouverIsland #photography #VanIsle #Cascadia #Fir #ElderTrees #PacificNorthwest #PNW #TreeLovers #TreeHugger #CarbonSink #Ecological #Climate #Environmental #biodiversity #nature #WorthMoreStanding #BritishColumbia #Canada #Degrowth #StopEcocide

anlomedad Apr 12

New study finds that far less than half of Brazil's and US calorie production is directly for human food, Europe 50%, Africa, India 80%. The rest is for animal feed and transport fuel.

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2976-601X/ae4f6b

So that the rich with their cars & private jets and thousandS of tons in annual CO2 emissions also starve people! #EatTheRich #1789

I also often like to share Hayek et al 2021 who calculated how much CO2 the land sink would draw down if animal agriculture ends and the space be re-conquered by the original biome https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-020-00603-4
That alone could be >700Gt CO2 within 30 years, up to a whopping 23Gt each year! Plus the avoided methane and nitrogen emissions. So the rewilding of land used for animal farming today might mean -0.4°C.…!!!!!

And ocean acidification and nitrogen leeching is halted as well. What's not to like?
And now add the plants burnt as jet fuel…
And add the re-wetted peatland used as pasture today that stops their active CO2 emissions and might even revert them back into actively storing ever new carbon for thousands of years…
Just by avoiding burgers and Feta!

#climateChange #vegan #carbonsink

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Lupposofi Apr 6

Vanhassa vara parempi! 🤗

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adz8554

#metsä #forest #hiili #carbon #carbonSink #luonto #nature #borealForest #sweden #hiilensidonta #hiilidioksidi #vanhatmetsat

NIOO-KNAW Apr 2

New publication: The #global extent of the #grassland biome and implications for the #terrestrial #carbonsink.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-025-02955-6

EndemicEarthling Mar 26

Q: What links the iconic and critically endangered #BlackCockatoo, the 'inevitable' pollution of #FreshWater for a city of millions, the destruction of a major #CarbonSink, and whether putative #democracy means anything in these lands now called Australia to the #EpsteinFiles, massacred schoolgirls in #Minab and skyrocketing fossil fuelled #inflation?

A: The decision by PM #Albanese to sign a 'Critical Minerals Deal' with #DearLeader in Oct 2025.

Explained here: https://mineralpolicyinstitute.substack.com/p/honest-government-ad-on-gallium-water.

Or simply watch the latest instalment of #HonestGovernmentAds from #JuiceMedia: https://www.thejuicemedia.com/honest-government-ad-alcoa-vs-northern-jarrah-forest/

Honest Government Ad on Gallium, Water Security and the Jarrah Forest

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Levent Kurnaz Mar 19

Massive news in carbon sequestration: The Taklamakan Desert's "Green Wall" is now a verified carbon sink. Satellite data shows a 1-2 ppm CO2 drop over the region during wet seasons. 66 billion trees later, a "biological void" is now helping the planet breathe. 🌍🛰️

https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/plants/china-has-planted-so-many-trees-around-the-taklamakan-desert-that-its-turned-this-biological-void-into-a-carbon-sink

#ClimateScience #Afforestation #CarbonSink

China has planted so many trees around the Taklamakan Desert that it's turned this 'biological void' into a carbon sink

Huge-scale ecological engineering around the edges of one of the world's largest and driest deserts has turned it into a carbon sink that absorbs more CO2 than it emits, research suggests.

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