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Recovering forests regain a quarter of carbon lost from deforestation

Envirotec Magazine

Tropical forests are vital ecosystems in the fight against climate change. Yet vast areas of forest are still degraded or lost through deforestation and environmental changes, despite many countries pledging forest restoration.

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First global atlas of rangelands launches, and reveals vulnerable state of a neglected ecosystem

Envirotec Magazine

Their goal is to make rangelands a prominent part of policy discussions around everything from confronting climate change to reducing poverty, managing threats to biodiversity and freshwater, and developing sustainable food systems.

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Pachama and Planet Partner to Protect and Restore Forests Globally

Planet Pulse

The new partnership will result in the monitoring of forests across North and South America, and will scale to increase the transparency and accountability of carbon markets worldwide. Pachama and Planet have a shared mission to protect and restore the world’s forests. .

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How a humble mushroom could save forests and fight climate change

Business Green

In South America, around 71 per cent of rainforest has been replaced by pasture and a further 14 per cent has been lost to the production of animal feed. Between 2015 and 2020, the rate of deforestation was estimated at around 10 million hectares every year.

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UN report: People have wrecked 40% of all the land on Earth

Grist

If these trends continue, experts expect growing disruptions to human health, food supplies, migration, and biodiversity loss driven by climate change, in what the authors calls a “confluence of unprecedented crises.”. This threatens “many species on Earth, including our own,” the report warns.

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PlanetScope and Planet Basemaps Utilized for Carbon Credits Monitoring in Indonesian Tropical Forest

Planet Pulse

Tropical forests are large and complex ecosystems that are a vital part of the solution to addressing the effects of climate change. This project embraced natural climate solutions (NCS), which a 2017 paper by Griscom et al.

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Rainforest study: Scientists now know the temperature at which photosynthesis stops

Grist

Around the world, leaves play a critical central role in staving off the worst impacts of climate change. Still, the Amazon covers a land area roughly twice the size of India , and is among the most biodiverse ecosystems on Earth, with over 3 million species of flora and fauna.