Batteries from trees, seaweed solutions and COP28 controversy

The Landscape News bi-weekly digest is currently on hold until March. In the meantime, please enjoy this special start-of-2023 news roundup. This year will be hot. The El Niño climate phenomenon is set to return by mid-2023, which will likely be enough to send global warming over 1.5 degrees Celsius. In this special January 2023 news round-up, we cover the latest temperature records, natural climate solutions, greenwashing controversies and more. LANDSCAPE NEWS A petroglyph from an Indigenous group in the Peruvian Amazon. Tomas Munita, CIFOR Last month, world leaders sealed what was hailed as a historic deal for the planet at the COP15 biodiversity summit in Montreal. But was the agreement really such a resounding success? Deep in the Amazon jungle, archaeologists are discovering a network of lost cities dating back some 1,600 years. Here’s what we know about them so far. Meet…

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