Archive for October 2nd, 2020

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02/10/2020

Restoring Ecosystems After Fire and Flooding: Forget Not the Beneficial Soil Microbes

Human Wrongs Watch

By Esther Ngumbi*

ILLINOIS, United States, Oct 1 2020 (IPS)* – Recent months have brought all sorts of climate-linked disasters, from raging wildfires in California and Oregon to flooding in Alabama. As we think of the incalculable losses that are associated with these extremities linked to the changing climate, I cannot help but think of the belowground web of life that is burning, being flooded and washed away, affected, or lost.

15350955718_4fe714389d_z-629x416Soil stores nutrients, carbon and micro-organisms. Credit: Xavi Fernández de Castro/IPS

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02/10/2020

Amazon Fires Worse in a Decade, CO2 Emissions Spike

Human Wrongs Watch

Countries of the Amazon basin are probably underestimating their carbon emissions from deforestation by 37%.
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The investigation reveals that Brazil´s CO2 emissions from deforestation average 500 million tons of CO2 per year.

The investigation reveals that Brazil´s CO2 emissions from deforestation average 500 million tons of CO2 per year. | Photo: EFE/ Ezequiel Vannon

1 October 2020 (teleSUR)* — Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research (Inpe) reported that fires in the Amazon are the worse in a decade as the satellites recorded 32.017 hotspots in September.

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