Grist

OCTOBER 31, 2023

billion acres of soil around the world have gotten saltier, an area roughly the size of the entire United States, and it’s stressing out plants. Salt is even getting kicked up into the air: In arid regions, “lakes are drying up and sending plumes of saline dust into the atmosphere,” such as the Aral Sea in Central Asia, the study says.

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Sea level rise Pollution Soil Asia 131

Grist

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Thousands of acres of forest, and the carbon-dense peat soils beneath, have gone up in flames, clearing the way for rows of oil palm trees. For decades, governments of Southeast Asia gave agricultural companies the rights to develop vast swathes of forest, and those companies turned wilderness into plantations as fast as they could.

Energy Monitor 143

Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Asia 143

Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

The report today - the IPCC's first of its kind since 2013 - may not make for joyful reading on the state of the only habitable home humans have, but coming just weeks before the crucial COP26 Climate Summit its core conclusions could not be more essential to every business on the planet. And today the IPCC concluded the 1.5C

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Sea level rise Climate change Ocean acidification Carbon-negative 101

Grist

JUNE 27, 2022

They come from bugs, shellfish, and even soil. The first case of chikungunya in the Western Hemisphere was discovered in 2013 in the Caribbean. Valley fever Carried by soil containing the fungus Coccidioides. But the environment harbors dozens of other carriers of illnesses you’ve probably never heard of. Virgin Islands.

Health 143

Health Climate change Soil South America 143

DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

These come from deforestation, changes in soil carbon, methane emissions, emissions from fertilisers, manure, farm machinery, and animal feed production. The latest protein supply figures from the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) for 2013 recorded average protein consumption of 69.1g

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Agriculture Climate change Methane Soil 89

Unsustainable

OCTOBER 28, 2019

According to Greenpeace , by 2013, only 9% of Yunnan’s forest was still primary, because “many high-quality forests have vanished and been converted into plantation”. And even a light rain can wash away the soil from mountain slopes where the coffee plants grow. Experts said the soil had been exhausted and polluted.

Sustainability 40

Sustainability Soil Organic Agriculture 40

Unsustainable

OCTOBER 20, 2019

How they grow coffee will have its own part to play, with intensive farming potentially leading to soil depletion and deforestation. But from 2009 to 2013 droughts occurred in Yunnan every winter, bringing water shortages and turning farmland barren for millions of residents. The trees acted as a natural barrier to pests and disease.

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Climate change Soil Agriculture Construction 40