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A new report coauthored by University of Waterloo professor Maria Strack has provided the most comprehensive assessment of the world's peatlands to date and identified actions governments should take to improve their protection, restoration and sustainable management.

Dust particles from central South America were the most important source of iron in the South Pacific during the last two ice ages.

Dieback of the Amazon rainforest has long been touted as a possible climate tipping point, even though only a small minority of Earth System Models were projecting dieback. 

November brought a new round of explosions, volcanic tremors, and gas and steam emissions to Ecuador’s most active volcano.

Scientists on a research vessel in Antarctica watched the front of a glacier disintegrate and their measurements ‘went off the scale’.