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Will burying dead trees after a wildfire keep their carbon locked up?

Partially burnt trees still standing after a wildfire are typically felled and burned, but a US start-up claims burying them instead will trap the carbon underground for centuries

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Trees floating towards the Arctic Ocean

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Sinking trees in Arctic Ocean could remove 1 billion tonnes of CO2

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Africa’s forests are now emitting more CO2 than they absorb

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CO2 levels in Earth's atmosphere jumped by a record amount in 2024

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2GME5J3 Plane leaving trail of chemicals to fight wildfire. Dramatic red smoke against setting sun

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One of Earth’s most vital carbon sinks is faltering. Can we save it?

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Trees may be getting more flammable because of climate change

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Drone view of savanna vegetation and rock formation

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Major carbon sink may have vanished for a second year in a row

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Forests' vanishing snow is also bad news for carbon storage

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Forest crisis sparks alarm that Europe will miss net-zero targets

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Tropical forest loss doubled in 2024 as wildfires rocketed

A record 67,000 square kilometres of primary rainforest was lost from the tropics in 2024, with global warming and El Niño contributing to a massive jump in fire-driven damage

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Can we rely on forests to soak up the extra CO2 in the atmosphere?

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Wood-eating beetles may make wildfires emit even more carbon

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Melting ice reveals millennia-old forest buried in the Rocky mountains

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Melting permafrost makes 'drunken forests' store less carbon

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