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Climate change is supercharging floods and droughts, new research shows

Grist

The research relies on satellite data from NASA’s Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment, used to measure subtle changes in Earth’s stores of water, including groundwater, surface water, snow, ice, and soil moisture. So how is climate change making the world both drier and wetter at the same time?

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'Historical underestimation': Nitrogen fertiliser 'overlooked' driver of climate change, Soil Association warns

Business Green

Phase out of synthetic fertilisers and wider dietary shift away from intensively farmed meat urgently required to curb climate damaging gas, the Soil Association warns. But Soil Assocation argues deeper action is needed. Unless we reduce nitrogen pollution, we will never be able to reach net zero targets.

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Climate change is supercharging floods and droughts, new research shows

Grist

The research relies on satellite data from NASA’s Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment, used to measure subtle changes in Earth’s stores of water, including groundwater, surface water, snow, ice, and soil moisture. So how is climate change making the world both drier and wetter at the same time?

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Restoring Degraded Forests Could Bring Back Lost Rainfall, Cooler Temperatures

The City Fix

Many people point to forest restoration as a way to curb climate change, where replanted forests sequester carbon in trees and soils. But emerging evidence shows that restoration can provide non-carbon climate benefits, too — in particular, reducing heat and regulating rainfall. Here’s what.

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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In South America, around 71 per cent of rainforest has been replaced by pasture and a further 14 per cent has been lost to the production of animal feed. And with 80 per cent of the world's population facing a threat to their water security , trees play a very significant role in stemming desertification and preventing soil erosion.

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'Peak poultry': UK's appetite for industrial chicken threatens its climate and nature goals, campaigners warn

Business Green

The government has been urged to introduce an immediate ban on new intensive poultry sheds in a bid to curb deforestation and habitat loss in South America caused by soya production for UK livestock feed. million hectares, with much of this land in ecologically vulnerable areas of the Americas, according to the Soil Association.

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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.