When land shifts from producing corn to soybeans to kumquats, or from cropland to grazing land or bioenergy, or back to forest, does that help or hurt the world’s potential to mitigate climate change? A new paper in Nature finds that typical methods used by policymakers and researchers to answer this question have not properly focused on the need to increase the efficiency of land to meet growing demands for both food and carbon storage.
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At COP24, South Africa’s Department of Environmental Affairs (DEA) is launching the South Africa Biennial Update Report Explorer, a new platform offering data and visualization on South Africa’s climate response.
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Statement from Todd Gartner following the Trump Administration's new proposal on restrictions to protect wetlands and waterways.
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