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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. degrees Celsius.

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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. million km2) is now used to produce crops.

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

Planet Pulse

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. Tropical forests, an important part of NCS, are some of the most biodiverse regions on Earth and must be protected.

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For a livable future, 60% of oil and gas must stay in the ground

Grist

The researchers set out to estimate how much of the world’s fossil fuel reserves must remain in the ground in order to limit global warming to 1.5 That’s one of the key takeaways of a new study published in the journal Nature on Wednesday by energy and climate modelers from University College London. . degrees Celsius (2.7

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It's not totally unlike a comet

Business Green

So yeah, there's a little cheat that we did: we took away the hyper-object of global warming, which is so vast and timeless and slow-moving, and we put in a very concrete event, a comet. This risk increases steeply with rises in global temperature. As McKay put it: "No allegory is a perfect fit. And it gets worse.

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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.

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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.