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When you hear the words “CO2 emission” what do you think of? Fossil fuel combustion? Gasoline-powered vehicles? Manufacturing materials? Deforestation? Well, what about rice paddies? The IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) has estimated that rice paddies emit a staggering 10%-12% of global methane emissions (60 million metric tons). These paddies also emit Nitrous Oxide.

Earth is changing like never before. And some say the solution is to just flee to Mars. But what about the 8 billion people we leave behind? In this midst of the billionaire space race, the most important mission isn't finding somewhere else to go. It's protecting the planet we already have.

CLIMATE NEWS MEDIA 53.002.1 There’s a moment when a problem stops being abstract and becomes personal. For a long time, climate change lived in that abstract space — charts, predictions, warnings, all pointing to a future that felt far away. But now its here. It’s in the smoke we breathe, the snow that never falls, the crops that don’t grow anymore. But we can still get it right.

COP30 in Brazil was a disaster. The largest climate change summit of the year, COP30 literally caught on fire, a perfect metaphor for the rest of the conference. © 2025 Climate News Media

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Happy Holidays! This month I am going to write about how to be thoughtful about your impact on the Earth and reduce your waste these holidays. No matter what you celebrate you can be helping the environment the whole way through. Between Thanksgiving and New Year’s waste increases by 25% to 43%. Not only should we work to reduce this, but it is an opportunity to create good habits for the years ahead. In my family, we celebrate Hanukkah and Christmas, and one big part of Chr