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5 Ways to Make Food Production  and Land Use More Earth-Friendly

5 Ways to Make Food Production and Land Use More Earth-Friendly

By Edward Davey The world is vastly underestimating the benefits of acting on climate change. Recent research from the Global Commission on the Economy and Climate finds that bold climate action could deliver at least $26 trillion in economic benefits through 2030. This ground-breaking research, produced by the Global Commission and more than 200 experts, […]

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    5 Ways to Make Food Production  and Land Use More Earth-Friendly

    5 Ways to Make Food Production and Land Use More Earth-Friendly

    By Edward Davey The world is vastly underestimating the benefits of acting on climate change. Recent research from the Global Commission on the Economy and Climate finds that bold climate action could deliver at least $26 trillion in economic benefits through 2030. This ground-breaking research, produced by the Global Commission and more than 200 experts, […]

    4 Signs to Watch at COP23

    4 Signs to Watch at COP23

    By Paula Caballero, David Waskow and Christina Chan Two years after the world joined together to forge the Paris agreement on climate change, representatives from around the globe will convene in Bonn, Germany, on Nov. 6 for the next round of United Nations talks. The summit marks a critical stepping stone for global climate action. […]

    Scientists Use Google Earth and Crowdsourcing to Map Uncharted Forests

    Scientists Use Google Earth and Crowdsourcing to Map Uncharted Forests

    By Katie Fletcher, Tesfay Woldemariam and Fred Stolle No single person could ever hope to count the world’s trees. But a crowd of them just counted the world’s drylands forests—and, in the process, charted forests never before mapped, cumulatively adding up to an area equivalent in size to the Amazon rainforest. Current technology enables computers […]