Hiral Anil Shah, Imperial College London; Kallista Chan, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine e Kris Murray, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
New research quantifies the link between agricultural practices and malaria transmission in sub-Saharan Africa.
Environmental footprint calculators may promise to help consumers lead a greener life. But they may in fact encourage choices that don’t benefit – or even harm – the environment.
The road leading to the Etosha National Park East Gate at Fort Namutoni, Etosha National Park, Namibia.
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Lavinia Perumal, University of Cape Town; Mark New, University of Cape Town; Matthias Jonas, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) e Wei Liu, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)
The presence of roads, even inside protected areas, may pose a significant threat to species.
Brazil, home to the Amazon rainforest and a notable absence in previous deforestation agreements, has signed this time.
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A complete switch to biofuels is neither feasible nor desirable, but they could replace some fossil fuels in transport and heating. If biofuels are produced from waste products, that’s even better.
A drilling pad for oil and gas in Robinson Township, Penn.
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Abandoned US oil and gas wells and their associated land cover more than 2 million acres, a recent study estimates – an area larger than Delaware and Rhode Island combined.
A visualization of daily life around Angkor Wat in the late 12th century.
Tom Chandler, Mike Yeates, Chandara Ung and Brent McKee, Monash University, 2021
Putting affected people and communities at the centre of difficult relocation decisions must be a priority under laws that replace the old Resource Management Act.
The transition to 100% renewable energy will require a lot of land – mostly in regional Australia. This presents big challenges, and opportunities, for the farming sector.
In a year tied for the warmest on record globally, the U.S. was hit with costly hurricanes, wildfires, storms and drought.
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NOAA released its list of climate and weather disasters that cost the nation more than $1 billion each. Like many climate and weather events this past year, it shattered the record.
COVID-19 restrictions led to calls to open up golf courses to the public. But these are such precious refuges for native flora and fauna that access will have to be carefully managed.
Land reform strategies portray the land as uniform, static and independent from its social-environmental context.
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South Africa’s that current land reform strategies focus too narrowly on agricultural outcomes and transferred ownership - this undermines equitable and sustainable land reform.
Wildfire smoke creates an orange glow over San Francisco, Sept. 9, 2020.
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The UK’s official climate advisor recommends up to 50,000 hectares of new woodland each year by 2050.
Bam, a province Burkina Faso, was once a migration source due to land degradation. This is changing thanks to soil and water conservation projects.
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Evidence shows Native Americans in New England lived lightly on the land for thousands of years. It wasn’t until Europeans arrived that the landscape experienced major human impacts.