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By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) -Negotiations on an ambitious biodiversity deal to halt or reverse nature loss drew to a close in Switzerland on Tuesday, with countries agreeing to little more than further talks in June. The Geneva meeting of around 1,000 negotiators from 164 countries was meant to be the last before the postponed U.N. Conference on Biodiversity in the Chinese city of Kunming where countries are due to ratify a deal to protect some 1 million plant and animal species threatened with extinction. The framework has the potential to be the biodiversity equivalent of the 2015 Paris c...

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By Emma Farge

The towering trees in Gabon's impenetrable mangrove swamps have helped to make the Central African country one of the world's few net absorbers of carbon as the plants sequester the greenhouse gas four times faster than forests on land.

By Alessandra Prentice PONGARA NATIONAL PARK, Gabon (Reuters) - The towering trees in Gabon's impenetrable mangrove swamps have helped to make the Cen...