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The Congo is auctioning off 306 million acres of land, which stores roughly 30 gigatons of carbon, for oil and gas drilling, threatening:

- The heart of Earth's second-largest tropical rainforest
- Vital habitats for gorillas, bonobos and other endangered species
- The area home to 39 Million people, many of whom are indigenous
- tens of millions of acres of protected and biodiverse lands
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What has no color or smell and is found in wetlands, cow burps and your basement furnace? The answer is methane — a powerful greenhouse gas that is the second most important contributor to the climate crisis after carbon dioxide (CO2). It is the primary component of natural gas, which currently generates around 25 percent of the world’s electricity.

Here's everything you need to know about #methane. ecowatch.com/methane-facts-…

New York is now the first state in the U.S. to require new buildings to be built entirely electric, without hookups to fossil fuels including gas, the New York State Assembly reported. ecowatch.com/new-york-new-b…

Thousands of mollusks and worms have been discovered by a Chinese submersible in the Mariana Trench, almost six miles below sea level.

The new study revealed it is the deepest colony of animals ever observed. ecowatch.com/deepest-animal…

A beneficial bacterial probiotic is restoring hope for mitigating disease spread in corals off the coast of Florida. In a new study, scientists have investigated the effectiveness of a compound produced by the probiotic strain MCH1-7 for combating the deadly stony coral tissue loss disease.
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