Minister for Climate Change and Energy, Chris Bowen.
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Australia’s move towards net zero emissoions by 2020 is in danger of stalling. If it is not to fail, the nation urgently needs a government plan, aligned with industry and with public support.
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By 2050, the chemicals which make craft beers ‘hoppy’ could decrease by a third.
Cocoa farmers in Ghana struggle with poverty.
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Ghana and other west African cocoa growing countries must harness their combined bargaining strength to address the challenges plaguing cocoa farming.
A farmer spreads fertilizer in a wheat field outside Amritsar, India.
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Did the Green Revolution, which brought high-tech agriculture to developing nations in the 1960s, prevent famine? Recent research takes a much more skeptical view.
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When economists model climate impacts, they look to what past weather shocks have done to the economy. But this does not remotely capture what climate change could do.
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Aaron Simmons , University of New England ; Annette Cowie , University of New England ; Beverley Henry , Queensland University of Technology ; Brian Wilson , University of New England ; David Pannell , The University of Western Australia ; David Rowlings , Queensland University of Technology ; Elaine Mitchell , Queensland University of Technology ; Matthew Tom Harrison , University of Tasmania ; Peter Grace , Queensland University of Technology ; Raphael Viscarra Rossel , Curtin University ; Richard Eckard , The University of Melbourne et Warwick Badgery , The University of Melbourne
A group of agricultural and soil scientists has serious concerns about the way credits are awarded for soil carbon sequestration in Australia.
Our grocery stores are increasingly filled with ultra-processed foods, which have little to no nutritional value and a huge environmental impact.
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Ultra-processed foods are bad for our health and our planet and must be central to any efforts to reduce our carbon emissions, and waistlines.
Varroa mites on drone pupae.
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The Varroa mite is here to stay. This will have wide-ranging impacts on beekeeping and the crops that rely on honey bee pollination in Australia.
Yam daisies on the left, cattle on the right.
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Newcomers in Australia found and took rich pastures made by Aboriginal fire. Without fire, pastures would revert to forest or scrub.
Farming needs substantial investment in on-farm infrastructure and equipment.
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Financing is available to farmers. What’s in contention is whether what’s available helps farmers enter the industry, expand and grow.
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Australia has almost 1.8 million farm dams – and some are home to threatened frog species
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Our research has found 30,000 farm dams which could be used as energy storage. Solar by day, hydro by night.
Placing vertical solar panels on farming land allows for energy production and higher yields.
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Using agricultural land for both solar and food production presents huge opportunities for Canadian farmers, especially in Alberta.
Groundwater is vital to communities in northern Kenya during droughts.
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Better monitoring of groundwater is important for sustainable management.
New homes under construction in Rochester, Kent.
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Developers will no longer have to offset nutrient pollution from new housing projects – the UK government say this won’t degrade water quality.
Ontario’s Greenbelt is a bastion of ecosystem diversity and the loss of parts of it would cause considerable harm.
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While Canada pledges $200 million to promote biodiversity, Doug Ford removes lands from the Greenbelt. Here is why we all should care.
A flock of puffins on a cliff in Northumberland, England.
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A new assessment of the population status of Europe’s birds reveals that the number of species that are of conservation concern is increasing.
In Canada and around the world, biosolids are widely used to improve agricultural farmland soil. Biosolids being sprayed on an agricultural field.
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We need to pay close attention to the potential impacts that high levels of microplastics might have on environments and find ways to reduce microplastic levels in Canada’s wastewater stream.
Chick peas intercropped with flax on a farm in Stanford, Mont.
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Conventional agriculture offers farmers few choices about which crops to grow or how to raise them. A new approach uses computing to construct better strategies with lower environmental impacts.
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We’re having a big impact on the planet. But what marks will we leave behind in deep time?