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Memo: WSJ's Emma Tucker hires Axios EIC Aja Whitaker-Moore as co-deputy EIC, promotes David Crow to the same role, and hires Dan Colarusso to lead biz/finance (Corbin Bolies/@corbinbolies)
https://x.com/corbinbolies/status/1991980144186327535

Corbin Bolies (@CorbinBolies) on X
NEW: WSJ editor Emma Tucker sent a memo to staff saying she hired Axios EIC Aja Whitaker-Moore as a deputy EIC and Dan Colarusso as "coverage chief for Business, Finance and Economics"

Warming triggers unprecedented carbon loss from tropical soils, study finds https://news.mongabay.com/2025/09/warming-triggers-unprecedented-carbon-loss-from-tropical-soils-study-finds/

Warming triggers unprecedented carbon loss from tropical soils, study finds
Climate warming could cause much greater soil carbon losses in the tropics than previously predicted, with potentially dire consequences for the global climate, according to a new study published in Nature Communications. Tropical forests store around a third of the world’s soil carbon and exchange more CO2 with the atmosphere than any other land biome. […]

Low Carbon Family Holidays - Be a social superstar without 57 foreign holidays every year! Cut stress, cost, carbon and food waste. Have loads of fun! #frugal #holiday #TravellersCheck -

Low Carbon Family Holidays
Be a social superstar without 57 foreign holidays every year! Cut stress, cost, carbon and food waste. Have loads of fun! #frugal #holiday #TravellersCheck

It's good to see that GMCA has adopted a retrofit framework agreement that includes calculating embodied carbon.
As we showed in relation to GMCA's own Joint Development Plan, Places for Everyone, it's embodied carbon that's the big problem in building new homes etc. So at least try to make #retrofit and enetgy saving low carbon.
Taking a calculated risk: eliminating the …

"Growing trees for shade has ‘enormous’ potential for cutting cocoa emissions"
#Trees #Emissions #Chocolate

Growing trees for shade has ‘enormous’ potential for cutting cocoa emissions - Carbon Brief
Growing tall trees to provide shade for cocoa plantations in west Africa could sequester millions of tonnes of carbon, according to a new study.

CIA playing 'most important part' in US strikes in the Caribbean, sources say (Aram Roston/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/21/us-strikes-caribbean-cia-role
http://www.memeorandum.com/251021/p117#a251021p117

Trotz rückläufiger verbrannter Fläche stiegen die CO₂-Emissionen durch #Waldbrände 2024/25 auf über 8 Milliarden Tonnen – rund 10 % mehr als im langjährigen Schnitt.
Ursache sind vermehrte #Brände in kohlenstoffreichen

Global wildfires burned an area of land larger than India in 2024 - Carbon Brief
“Extreme” wildfires emitted more than 8bn tonnes of carbon dioxide during the 2024-25 “global fire season”, according to a new report.

Carbon offsets have failed for 25 years, and most should be phased out #carbon

Carbon offsets have failed for 25 years, and most should be phased out
Academics at the University of Oxford and the University of Pennsylvania have conducted the most comprehensive review of evidence on the effectiveness on carbon offsetting to date and concluded the practice is ineffective and riddled with "intractable" problems. The review is published in the Annual Review of Environment and Resources.

Ecuador says it has no evidence that survivor of US strike in Caribbean committed any crime (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/20/ecuador-says-it-has-no-evidence-that-survivor-of-us-strike-in-caribbean-committed-any-crime-00616041
http://www.memeorandum.com/251020/p150#a251020p150

"New conservation area protects 53% of carbon in northern Peruvian Amazon"
#Amazon #Conservation #Environment

New conservation area protects 53% of carbon in northern Peruvian Amazon
A new regional conservation area has been created in Loreto, the largest region in Peru’s Amazon. The Medio Putumayo Algodón Regional Conservation Area is the fourth protected natural area in the Putumayo region, an area connected by the Putumayo River, which flows into Colombia. The Ministry of the Environment established the area on June 6 […]