Links for 12/16/16

The majority of the Earth’s terrestrial carbon is stored in the soil. If anthropogenic warming stimulates the loss of this carbon to the atmosphere, it could drive further planetary warming.

Source: Quantifying global soil carbon losses in response to warming : Nature : Nature Research


 

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Video: the Island Escape

Source: Pacific Longboarder News / Reviews / Events


 

“The political parties come and go but the values of the regional cultures are always at play.”

Source: This map shows the US really has 11 separate ‘nations’ with entirely different cultures


 

Exclusive: In Under the Surface, a special Guardian film, the writer and environmental campaigner Naomi Klein travels to the Great Barrier Reef with her son, Toma, to see the impact of coral bleaching caused by climate change

Source: Naomi Klein at the Great Barrier Reef: what have we left for our children? – video | Environment | The Guardian


 

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Our waters have borne the brunt of global warming for decades, but dying corals, extreme weather, and plummeting fish stocks are signs that it can handle no more.

Source: The Oceans Can’t Protect Us Anymore—Here’s Why