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Turning carbon dioxide into stone could remove it from the atmosphere permanently, according to scientists working in Iceland. Amy Pollock reports.
Researchers are hailing a potential game-changer for climate change after successfully converting carbon to rock at a geothermal power plant in Iceland.
A group of researchers believes temperatures in the Middle East and North Africa will rise dramatically over the course of the 21st century.
Research predicts that within 15 to 20 years, human-caused deoxygenation will be felt across the world’s oceans.
"We do not need more warnings. The dystopian future is already here," UN right chief Volker Turk tells the United Nations Human Rights Council during the opening its the 54th session in Geneva. Climate change is sparking human rights emergencies in many countries, the UN rights chief added, also decrying widespread "nonchalance" to surging deaths of migrants. SOUNDBITE
Carlo Buontempo, director of the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), says it is virtually certain that the high temperatures in July mean that "the month as a whole will become the warmest July on record, the warmest month on record". The top 21 hottest days have "all occurred this month", he adds. SOUNDBITE