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The most cost-efficient way to tackle climate crisis – temperature spikes, rising seas, flooding and droughts – is planting more trees. A research team suggests that 1.2 trillion more trees could be added to about 10 percent of Earth’s land without disrupting agriculture. “New research estimates that a worldwide planting programme could remove two-thirds of all the emissions that have been pumped...

Plastic waste is durable and can require centuries to decompose. Burning destroys plastic, but emits harmful emissions. Despite increasing amounts of plastic produced, the United States and Europe report that less than 10 percent of plastic is recycled. Increasingly, the plastic waste was shipped to developing nations, but much of that is unusable. “Often, materials that can't be recycled...

Climate scientists warn that global warming is underway, promising severe disruptions for economies. The Trump administration denies climate change is a crisis and resists pullback on fossil fuels. Yet officials at all levels of government and business – financial, insurance, health and more – must confront costly weather disasters, so the United States issues mixed messages. For the Arctic...