Climate threat Global challenges
New study: Nature's absorption of carbon dioxide is decreasing
Nature's net uptake of carbon dioxide is decreasing sharply, Vetenskapsradion reports and refers to a new research study that has measured the carbon sink of forests and lands in 2023.
Record heat, drought and large forest fires led to the forest absorbing less carbon dioxide last year. The researchers for the study believe that the result is alarming, but that it is too early to say whether the development will continue like this. If it does, it may affect man's ability to limit climate change.
Markku Rummakainen, who is a professor at Lund University, has read the study and comments on it to the radio:
– This was a surprise. The effect has come much earlier than what was seen in the models.
New study: Nature's absorption of carbon dioxide is decreasing
Nature's net uptake of carbon dioxide is decreasing sharply, Vetenskapsradion reports and refers to a new research study that has measured the carbon sink of forests and lands in 2023.
Record heat, drought and large forest fires led to the forest absorbing less carbon dioxide last year. The researchers for the study believe that the result is alarming, but that it is too early to say whether the development will continue like this. If it does, it may affect man's ability to limit climate change.
Markku Rummakainen, who is a professor at Lund University, has read the study and comments on it to the radio:
– This was a surprise. The effect has come much earlier than what was seen in the models.
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Swedish fishing
Doubled herring fishing in the Baltic Sea: "Devastating - too high"
The herring and sturgeon quota will be doubled in the central Baltic Sea next year, according to an agreement at the EU fisheries ministerial meeting in Luxembourg. That's what TT writes.
The EU Commission's proposal to increase the quota by 108 percent compared to last year was made despite Sweden's goal of pushing for a reduction.
EU Member of Parliament Isabella Lövin (MP) is critical of the decision and believes that it is "devastating for the Baltic Sea".
"Once again, the quotas have been set way too high," she writes in a statement to the news agency.
Doubled herring fishing in the Baltic Sea: "Devastating - too high"
The herring and sturgeon quota will be doubled in the central Baltic Sea next year, according to an agreement at the EU fisheries ministerial meeting in Luxembourg. That's what TT writes.
The EU Commission's proposal to increase the quota by 108 percent compared to last year was made despite Sweden's goal of pushing for a reduction.
EU Member of Parliament Isabella Lövin (MP) is critical of the decision and believes that it is "devastating for the Baltic Sea".
"Once again, the quotas have been set way too high," she writes in a statement to the news agency.
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Political situation in Peru
Peru's former president gets 20 years for corruption
Peru's former president Alejandro Toledo is sentenced to 20 years and six months in prison for corruption, AP writes. He is convicted of accepting millions in bribes from the notorious Brazilian construction giant Odebrecht.
The sentence will be served in a prison that has been built exclusively for former Peruvian presidents.
Toledo has always denied wrongdoing. He was in power from 2001–2006.
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Political situation in Peru
Peru's former president gets 20 years for corruption
Peru's former president Alejandro Toledo is sentenced to 20 years and six months in prison for corruption, AP writes. He is convicted of accepting millions in bribes from the notorious Brazilian construction giant Odebrecht.
The sentence will be served in a prison that has been built exclusively for former Peruvian presidents.
Toledo has always denied wrongdoing. He was in power from 2001–2006.
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Mpox Global cases
Second case of mpox variant detected in Europe
A case of the new variant of the disease mpox has been confirmed in Germany, German media reports.
The disease variant is spreading in a number of Central African countries and previously only one case, in Sweden in August, has been confirmed in Europe.
The German patient has been infected abroad, the Robert Koch Institute in Berlin said without providing any further details. The institute says that there is no increased risk of the virus variant spreading in Germany.
"We are monitoring the situation very closely, and adjust the recommendations if necessary," writes the institute in a statement according to Tagesschau
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