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At 'African COP', continent's climate needs may go unmet
At 'African COP', continent's climate needs may go unmet
by  AFP

It is being billed as the "African COP" but scientists and campaigners on the continent least responsible for climate change fear the UN summit that begins on Sunday in Egypt will once again leave them sidelined.

Arctic fires could release catastrophic amounts of C02: study
Arctic fires could release catastrophic amounts of C02: study
by  AFP

Global warming is responsible for bigger and bigger fires in Siberia, and in the decades ahead they could release huge amounts of carbon now trapped in the soil, says a report out Thursday. - Source of permafrost - Arctic soils store huge amounts of organic carbon, much of it in peatlands.

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