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Group distils wisdom on biochar for climate-smart agriculture

Envirotec Magazine

CSA enhances soil health and builds climate resilience, while aiming to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions. We evaluate if this sustainable agricultural practice can serve as a climate-smart agricultural practice in terms of food production, soil health, and environmental sustainability. What is biochar?

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Global warming ‘unequivocally’ human driven, at unprecedented rate: IPCC

Green Living Guy

The post Global warming ‘unequivocally’ human driven, at unprecedented rate: IPCC appeared first on Green Living Guy. Human-induced climate change is already affecting many weather and climate extremes in every region across the globe. Scientists […].

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Understanding the Anthropocene, Resilience Thinking, and the Future of Industry

Green Business Bureau

This article will cover the Holocene—the era of conditions that enabled society to grow and thrive, the theory of the Anthropocene, planetary boundaries, tipping points, and resilience thinking while urging readers to consider their impact and how to secure the future they want. The Anthropocene: Pushing Society Past Its Limits.

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Even a small rise in temperatures could decimate North American forests

Grist

The five-year experiment used infrared lamps and soil-heating cables to heat thousands of spruce, pine, and fir seedlings at two University of Michigan forest sites in northeastern Minnesota.

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Create gardener’s “gold” from falling leaves

Greenability Magazine

Here’s how to take advantage of this season’s gardener’s “gold,” get free nutrients for next year’s garden, and help slow climate change by sequestering carbon in the soil. As we rediscover the incredible role of microbial life in our soil, we realize how important it is for us to do whatever we can to support them.”. “As

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Threat to terrestrial ecosystems and food security detailed in IPCC land use report

Envirotec Magazine

The effects include water scarcity, desertification, soil erosion, declining crop yields and wildfire damage, with the prospect that these will only worsen unless urgent action is taken. Reducing greenhouse gas emissions from all sectors is essential if global warming is to be kept to well below 2ºC, if not 1.5ºC, said the authors.

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Data snapshot: Climate-related agrifoodtech in majority of upstream African investment, but more funding needed

AFN Sustainable Protein

Africa is responsible for just 3% of global carbon emissions. But global warming and other climate change impacts are negatively impacting these economies, particularly the resulting and increasingly extreme and unpredictable weather events. These were BIV’s first African startups.