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Facemasks to protect from Coronavirus. Prachatai, Flickr

Coronavirus and carbon emissions, COP 26’s postponement and Venice’s clear waters

In this news roundup: the connections between coronavirus and carbon emissions, oil prices, the ozone layer and where to get carbon-negative hand sanitizer.

 

Best of Landscape News 2019: Change-makers

From explorer Taylor Rees to author Bill McKibben, here is Landscape News' best crop of 2019 stories on inspiring change-makers.

 
Delegates at the Global Landscapes Forum New York 2019 at the U.N. headquarters. Justin K. Davey, GLF

To combat climate change this decade, restore the Earth

Efforts to restore the Earth's degraded ecosystems, from forests to oceans, rises as a solution to climate change at the Global Landscapes Forum NYC 2019.

 
Climate trailblazers

6 climate trailblazers leading the fight against global warming

At GLF New York, meet these six inspiring climate activists and practitioners who will be bringing their calls for climate action to the stage.

 
Across the Himalayas, Sherpas have adapted to live at average heights of 4,480 meters above sea levels for more than 6,000 years, but now are facing new challenges as the planet warms. Kiril Rusev, Flickr

Life as a Sherpa in the age of climate change

From watching glaciers warm into lakes to growing summer vegetables for the first time, three Sherpa Himalayans share their stories.

 
Yaks, native to the Himalayas and high-altitude terrain, graze near the city of Namche Bazaar. Cameron Moore, Flickr

Summer foods and restless yaks: Nima Doma Sherpa on Himalayan village life

A Himalayan Sherpa tells how rising mountain temperatures have changed her daily life, affecting what she grows and how she views the future.

 
Tenzing (center) uses radar gather information about the Khumbu Glacier near Everest base camp. Courtesy of Tenzing Chogyal Sherpa

Warm as ice: Tenzing Chogyal Sherpa on Himalayan glacial melt

A Sherpa glaciologist's concerns for flooding and water supply are rising with the temperatures of the air and ice in the Himalayas.

 
The mantras on prayer flags, such as these in Namche Bazaar, are believed to absorb into the landscape as the flags' colors fade. Traditionally Tibetan, they have become a symbol of Sherpas and the Himalayas. Philip Milne, Flickr

More than symbols: Pasang Yangjee Sherpa on cultural invisibility

A Sherpa researcher explains the Nepalese ethnic group's relationship with climate change, as a term still in the process of being learned and as a reality.

 
The melting of glaciers and icebergs, here pictured in Greenland's Ilulissat Icefjord, could have devastating effects on the global freshwater supply, says the leaked IPCC report. UN Photo/Mark Garten, Flickr

Leaked IPCC report warns of the future of oceans in climate change

Global warming's effect on oceans and the cryosphere will result in devastating storms, loss of freshwater and threatened fish stocks, say scientists.

 

Flames upon flames, carbon-free planes and a very fashionable G7

From what’s on your shelves to what’s in the atmosphere, here's the latest on climate and sustainability in the Landscape News bi-weekly digest.

 

Peatlands on permafrost

The unsung ecosystems helping keep the Arctic cool

 
Bill McKibben

Bill McKibben on new book “Falter” and the human future

Climate leader and 350.org founder Bill McKibben discusses evolution in the age of A.I. and why reason remains to be optimistic about climate change.

 

Landscape restoration expensive, exhausting – essential

Lessons from 5 continents in GLF Kyoto Act III

 

It’s not too late to reverse climate change

Climate change could become irreversible in the near future, but it's not too late to start taking action, say speakers at GLF Kyoto.

 

In climate discussions, a pause to feel the change

Notes and quotes from GLF Kyoto Act I

 

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