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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.”. organization, said that for too long, people have mined the earth, used its resources, and thoughtlessly discarded the rest.

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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. A neglected terrain? Until now, rangelands have rarely featured on international agendas.

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

Planet Pulse

Fortunately, organizations around the world are using Planet data to help protect these forests, including mission-based company Permian Global. found offered up to a third of the cost-effective emissions mitigation required to keep global warming below 2 ° C, but typically received about 3% of international climate finance.

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Meat Industry Climate Claims – Criticisms and Concerns

DeSmogBlog

Producers claim their animal feed comes from responsible sources and their livestock use land unsuitable for other uses, all the while supporting biodiversity and capturing carbon from the atmosphere through holistic or other types of “regenerative” grazing. For example, while Brazilian meat giant JBS reported emissions of 7.14

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The Earth's Lungs are Burning and Bolsanaro is to Blame

Green Market Oracle

million square miles, cutting across the entire continent of South America and extending out into the South Atlantic Ocean. It is also one of the richest areas of biodiversity on Earth. Brazil's National Institute for Space Research, or INPET reports that there have been 74,155 fires in the Amazon in 2019.