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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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'Miracle crop': Tesco works with suppliers to increase fava bean production

Business Green

Supermarket claims fava beans could help promote healthy soils and cut emissions by locking in soil carbon and replacing some of the soy used in animal feed. It really could be a miracle crop in terms of improving sustainability across our food system".

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Carbon offsets: Experts tout 'pioneering' method for measuring mangrove CO2 stores

Business Green

The US conservation group claims the Cispatá mangrove forest is the first to have its carbon stores fully calculated and entered into the global carbon market - including both the CO2 stored both in the trees and foliage above ground, and in soils below the water - in an achievement it said could "change the fate of mangroves everywhere".

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A botanic garden to save an endangered Colombian ecosystem

AGreenLiving

South America is often depicted as a lush landscape full of diverse ecosystems. There are six collections in the botanical garden: humid forest, dry forest, useful plants, special collections, biodiversity and superpáramos. Without columns inside, the interior spaces can include more soil for deep seeding.

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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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Nonprofit plants 80,000 trees in Kenya and Rwanda

AGreenLiving

Charcoal burning and logging have damaged the forest, eroding soil and frightening people with impending mudslides. Since its founding in 2014, One Tree Planted has worked in Africa, Asia, North America and South America to restore forests, create jobs and protect biodiversity. In 2018, the nonprofit planted 1.3

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The Amazon has lost over 10 million football fields of forest in a decade

AGreenLiving

For one, the Amazon rainforest is a biodiversity hotspot, home to thousands of plant and animal species at risk of endangerment and extinction. When species become endangered , the ecosystem and its biodiversity equilibrium are imbalanced, triggering chain reactions where one loss leads to another.