Climate-smart agriculture is a promising approach to addressing the threat of climate change and can effectively increase yields, benefit the environment, and increase farmer income. Such strategies―including diversification or rotation
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World must triple efforts to prevent catastrophic climate change, according to latest UN report
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World governments will need to triple their efforts to meet the commitments laid out in the 2015 Paris Climate Pact, according to the latest United Nations (UN) report, released on
Modern aeroplanes achieve flight using propellers and turbines powered by the combustion of greenhouse-gas emitting fossil fuels. A new paper published on 21 November in Nature has reported the first
Scientists set out on an Antarctic mission to learn more about mysterious molecules that clean the sky
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A team of scientists from Australia and the US are heading to Antarctica to research how the atmosphere’s ability to cleanse itself of greenhouse gases and other nasty chemicals has
A new study published on 15 November in Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems has presented a cheap and easy real-time method to measure nutrient levels in grassland (1). This rapid
Dark side of dams: social and environmental costs of hydropower may outweigh the energy benefits
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Two papers published on 5 November in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences have shed some new light on the dark side of hydropower. This renewable source of electricity
A new study published on 1 November in the journal Nature suggests the oceans are heating up much faster than expected (1). The study, led by Laure Resplandy, a biogeochemical
Aerospace has the potential to transform African agriculture, but the biggest challenge will be getting these technologies into the hands of farmers that need them. The white paper entitled The
A new special issue on rewilding was published on October 22 in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, edited by Dr Liesbeth Bakker, an aquatic ecology researcher from the
Should the agricultural industry adopt an approach similar to the auto industry’s fuel-emissions standards?
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A new study published on 15 October in Nature Sustainability finds that adopting benchmarks similar to the fuel-efficiency standards used by the automotive industry in the production of fertilizer could