AvatarMichael Hillflipped into Water and Carbon CyclesSuccesses and struggles: Brazil’s 20-year Amazon reforestation carbon sink projectmongabay.com - Marina MartinezFor decades, the highest deforestation rates in Brazil have been recorded at the eastern and southern edges of the Amazon rainforest. In this region, …
AvatarMichael Hillflipped into Water and Carbon Cycles‘More in hope’: lessons from our tiny reforestation scheme in the Amazonverified_publisherThe Guardian - Jonathan WattsFour years in, it has become clearer that the future of the forest and the climate crisis depends on politics
AvatarMichael Hillflipped into Geog Soc NewsHow the world’s lowest birthrate is changing South Koreathetimes.co.uk - Venetia MenziesThis month a South Korean construction firm unveiled an extraordinary bonus scheme for its workers: for every new child they have, they will be paid …
AvatarMichael Hillflipped into Energy Challenges and DilemmasHinkley Point C could be delayed to 2031 and cost up to £35bn, says EDFverified_publisherThe Guardian - Alex LawsonThe owner of Hinkley Point C has blamed inflation, Covid and Brexit as it announced the nuclear power plant project could be delayed by a further four years, and cost £2.3bn more. The plant in Somerset, which has been under construction since 2016, is now expected to be finished by 2031 and cost up …
AvatarMichael Hillflipped into Energy Challenges and DilemmasEDF takes €12.9bn hit after Hinkley Point C delays and cost overrunsverified_publisherThe Guardian - Alex LawsonThe owner of the Hinkley Point C power plant has taken a near €13bn hit after delays and cost overruns to the vast nuclear project, which have triggered international political tensions. France’s EDF Energy said it had taken a €12.9bn (£11bn) impairment charge on the project, weeks after it blamed …
AvatarMichael Hillflipped into Tectonics generalWhy Iceland's latest eruption may be the most dangerous in recent historyverified_publisherNational Geographic - Robin George AndrewsThe December 18 explosion is the region’s fourth in three years—and has fired out 10 times more lava per second than any of the past three at their peaks. Here's what happens next. It was perhaps only a matter of time before Iceland’s Reykjanes Peninsula ran out of luck. During the night of December …
