Climate Change

The Planet’s Largest Carbon Sink Is Reaching Its Limits

Climate change discussions usually focus on what is happening above the water: rising temperatures, heatwaves, melting glaciers, sea-level rise. But roughly a quarter to a third of all the carbon dioxide humanity emits never reaches the atmosphere or remains there. It dissolves into the ocean. For decades, this has slowed the pace of global warming considerably — without the ocean acting as a vast carbon sink, temperatures would already be higher than they are.

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Rising Cost of Farming, Climate Change, and Debt Burden: The Fundamental Causes of Farmers’ Suicides

One of the main reasons pushing farmers toward suicide is that agriculture is no longer economically viable or capable of sustaining livelihoods. The reasons behind declining profitability include shrinking landholdings—from an average of 2.3 hectares in 1960–61 to 1.6 hectares in 2002–03—and rising expenses alongside income. Although farmers’ incomes have increased, their expenditures and debt burdens have grown even faster.

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