Time has run out to avoid dangerous climate change by reducing emissions alone.'In scenarios analysed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), limiting warming to 1.5°C is only possible with both rapid reductions in global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and the removal of emissions from the atmosphere' (Climate Change Authority, Canberra) >

'Discovery of plastic-degrading microbial strains isolated from the alpine and Arctic terrestrial plastisphere' (Frontiers of Science) >

'Vanuatu and Pacific nations adopt the Port Vila Call for a Just Transition to a Fossil Fuel Free Pacific on 17 March 2023' (Vanuatu ICJ Initiative, VanuatuICJ) >

'Kelp forests cover a third of the world’s coastlines and support hundreds of millions of people, but they are disappearing. The Kelp Forest Alliance is a collaborative home that brings together people and organisations to enhance, protect, and restore these incredible ecosystems.' (Kelp Forest Alliance, Australia) >

'summary of the European State of the Climate 2022, compiled by the Copernicus Climate Change Service' (Copernicus is the European Union's Earth Observation Programme. Bonn, Germany) >

Updated information - April 2023 (Climate Action Tracker, Berlin, Germany) >

Climate Concerns and Young People's Mental Health. [Their] 'report reveals the alarming impact of climate concerns on the mental health of young people in Australia with data analysed from Mission Australia’s 2022 Youth Survey – an annual Australia-wide survey of 19,000 young people aged 15-19' (Orygen and Mission Australia, Melbourne and Sydney) >

A review of recent advances in engineering bacteria for enhanced CO2 capture and utilization. 'Biological systems for CO2 conversion, on the other hand, provide a potential path forward owing to its high application selectivity and adaptability. Moreover, many bacteria can use CO2 as their only source of carbon and turn it into value-added products' (National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, USA) >

'Trees make a huge contribution to many aspects of our daily lives, where we choose to be and how we feel. Trees are often taken for granted, but their absence or loss is strongly felt.' (Forest of Avon Trust, Bristol, England) >

'Human activities, principally through emissions of greenhouse gases, have unequivocally caused global warming, with global surface temperature reaching 1.1°C above 1850–1900 in 2011–2020. Global greenhouse gas emissions have continued to increase, with unequal historical and ongoing contributions arising from unsustainable energy use, land use and land-use change, lifestyles and patterns of consumption and production across regions, between and within countries, and among individuals high confidence).' (Released by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Geneva) >