Daily Episode 160: Arctic Mosquitoes, Forest Carbon Flips, and The Day After Tomorrow

About this episode

This episode covers recent climate news including the arrival of mosquitoes in Iceland and the changing role of forests in carbon emissions.

A roundup of this week's climate news: Mosquitoes reach Iceland for the first time as the Arctic heats up Projected warming will exceed the long-term thermal limits of rice cultivation | Communications Earth & Environment Africa’s forests have flipped from carbon sink to carbon source | ScienceDaily Cities are leaking far more methane than previously thought - Earth.com Critical Atlantic current significantly more likely to collapse than thought | Oceans | The Guardian Why people are working so hard?Does it makes sense : r/collapse Please join us on Patreon for weekly bonus content and to join our Discord community. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

People in this episode

Hosts: Kory, Kellan

Topics covered

• climate news
• Arctic warming
• carbon emissions
• methane leakage
• forest carbon
• rice cultivation

Keywords

• climate change
• Arctic
• mosquitoes
• carbon sink
• methane
• rice cultivation
• Atlantic current

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Communications Earth & Environment, ScienceDaily, Earth.com, The Guardian

Places: Iceland

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