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Gold Coast leads way in beachfront rainforest restoration

A Greener Life

The City of Gold Coast is undertaking one of Australia’s largest ever beachfront rainforest restoration projects. If you’ve ever taken in the natural beauty of the Gold Coast’s glorious beaches or strolled along the city’s golden coastline, chances are you’ve unknowingly appreciated littoral rainforest.

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Earth system tipping events now seem inevitable – what does this mean for climate governance?

Legal Planet

For example a rainforest turns into a grassland, or an ice sheet melts completely. This means redoubling efforts to cut emissions, and reliably constrain temperature rises, not gambling on speculative technological interventions to cool the planet. Such shifts are non-linear, and practically irreversible.

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Communities Unite to Save Papua New Guinea’s Forests from Logging

Cool Green Science

A group of villages in Papua New Guinea decided to protect their damaged rainforests from future clearcuts. The post Communities Unite to Save Papua New Guinea’s Forests from Logging appeared first on Cool Green Science. A photographer captured that work in action.

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Fossil Pollen Reveals the African Origins of Asia’s Tropical Forests

Cool Green Science

Fossil pollen reveals that the iconic tree family of Borneo's rainforests — the dipterocarps — evolved in Africa. The post Fossil Pollen Reveals the African Origins of Asia’s Tropical Forests appeared first on Cool Green Science.

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New Research Makes it Harder to Kick The Climate Can Down the Road from COP28

Inside Climate News

‘Despite decades of warnings, we are still heading in the wrong direction’ By Bob Berwyn Research released this week raises new questions about how much more Earth may warm, or cool, if and when human carbon dioxide emissions zero out.

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The hidden effects of deforestation on our planet and 3 other fascinating Frontiers articles you may have missed

Frontiers

The first-ever research conducted by a team from the US pinpointed the local, regional and global non-CO2 benefits of specific forest zones worldwide to find that the entire world gains the most benefits from the band of tropical rainforests spanning Latin America, central Africa and Southeast Asia. Article link: [link].

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From Slow Loris to Gibbon: Meet 8 of Borneo’s Coolest Primates

Cool Green Science

I stepped outside my little cabin into the humid rainforest air, leaves still dripping from the previous nights rain. Even […] The post From Slow Loris to Gibbon: Meet 8 of Borneos Coolest Primates appeared first on Cool Green Science.