Climate change may soon double the impact of extreme drought and fire. And it’s a two-way traffic.
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Food system causes one third of greenhouse gases
How we eat causes dangerous climate heating. It’s time to change not only our diet, but the entire global food system.
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Climate crisis finds ample answers in world’s trees
The world’s trees can build cities, devour carbon and feed developing countries’ small farmers. It’s time to branch out.
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Food shortage may finish polar bears by 2100
How long polar bears can survive depends on how long they can last without food. And that may be: not long enough.
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Wildfire risk can be reduced with agroforestry
As Australia struggles to recover from months of wildfires, farmers and foresters say agroforestry could help to protect the country.
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Rewilding the Arctic can slow the climate crisis
It would be a monumental task to start rewilding the Arctic, but the climate payoff could be mammoth.
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Forest damage costs far more than thought
Tropical forest damage is bad enough. New thinking suggests it could prove far more ruinous in terms of the climate crisis.
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‘Untold suffering’ lies ahead in hotter world
Global heating could bring “untold suffering” for humans. It could also mean less fresh water and less rice, though tasting more of arsenic.
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Penguins in peril as winds change and heat rises
New weather patterns in the warming Antarctic are leaving thousands of penguins in peril, prompting calls for them to be specially protected.
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Sand and dust storms pose global threat
The United Nations plans to tame lethal sand and dust storms with a mixture of modern technology and traditional knowledge.
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