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How using space tech helps humanity move toward a sustainable future today

The Environmental Blog

The interest in precision farming among the industry players is driven by their intention to withstand competition amid increasing risks of crop failure caused by climate change-related weather extremes and ever-growing food demand. A National Forest Law prohibits lumbering in these areas adopted at the end of 2007.

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Farmers and local knowledge critical to stewardship of Earth’s life support systems, says UK-China study

Envirotec Magazine

The researchers suggest that the new diagram should replace a widely used, more simplified graphic, introduced in 2007, which focused on the natural processes that shape the critical zone without addressing human impact on landscapes. Critical zones and SDGs: One of the diagrams featured in the paper.

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Even a small rise in temperatures could decimate North American forests

Grist

From 2007 to 2017, land-based ecosystems like the vast boreal forests of Canada and the Amazon rainforest removed roughly a third of anthropogenic carbon emissions from the atmosphere. A new study from a research team at the University of Michigan found that even a relatively small temperature increase of 1.6

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Monitoring for flood management

Envirotec Magazine

Launching a consultation on the agency’s flood strategy, she said: “We can’t win a war against water by building away climate change with infinitely high flood defences.” Land use changes such as set-aside, switching arable to grassland or restricted hillside cropping, can improve infiltration and increase water retention.

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Ignoring nature was never going to work  

Business Green

I've always found it curious how, on the whole, the business community has been much slower to ‘get' the seriousness of the global ecological crisis and the profound threat it poses to the future of business, the global economy and - well - humanity, as compared to the threat posed by climate change.

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How climate change spurs megadroughts

Grist

In one sense, the climate change link seems obvious. But the connection between climate change and drought is not as straightforward as it seems. It’s complicated,” said Benjamin Cook, a climate scientist at NASA and the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. Since 1850, global temperatures have climbed 1.2

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IPCC report: The 10 key conclusions

Business Green

An all-you-need-to-know guide to the IPCC's must-read scientific dossier on the true scale of the climate crisis now facing the global economy. For 30 years, the science underpinning climate change, and humanity's role in driving it, has never been in much doubt. Warming is likely to reach 1.5C within next 20 years.