Traditional Japanese matcha farming is a very sustainable practice, and there is no known damage to soil, surrounding lands, water, animals, or air – though this can't be said of the matcha green tea that is grown outside of Japan and does not adhere by any stringent sustainable farming ...
Today, farmers in four continents are using these products, minimizing the need for synthetic inputs such as fertilizers and pesticides that degrade soil health and contaminate waterways. Indigo has two sustainability programs that allow farmers to get paid for various land management decisions that ...
The second part of the strategy involves finding conservation-oriented uses for lots opened up by demolition. One idea already being piloted is to turn them into tree farms. Fresh Coast Capital, a real-estate investment firm based in Chicago, isplanting poplar treeson 60 acres of abandoned land...
There is essentially no additional land to spare for further agricultural expansion. Degraded land must be restored or reforested. Specific strategies for curbing biodiversity loss include keeping half of the current global land area for nature, while sharing space on cultivated lands. The same applie...
The spatial resolution of satellite imagery is high enough to clearly see the pattern of ongoing deforestation. Areas are being used for cultivation of crops, but over the course of several years, heavy rains and erosion destroy the soil and consequently the yields decrease. Therefor...
Regenerative farming techniques address this by promoting biodiversity and conserving soil fertility, but the increasingly erratic weather patterns brought on by climate change are demanding even more innovative solutions. This is driving deep-tech advancements, often with the involvement of AI, that help...
Globally, more than 2 billon hectares of harmed the soil underneath. If instead the trees are tumed into wood chipn that productive land has already been degraded,according to the Unied Nations. By are sp_iosture increases and plants ca groue 2045, some 135 million peopie around the world...
Degraded land threatens the well-being and livelihoods of over3 billion peoplein nearly every country. Almost half of Earth’s forests have already been cleared or degraded to make way for agriculture and other human uses, leading to food insecurity, poverty, biodiversity loss, soil erosion, wate...
Indeed, managed retreat is a strategy that is being applied globally, notes Jim Elliott, a Rice University sociologist researching natural disasters’ long-term community impacts. The option has been deployed in every US state and about 500 municipalities nationwide, he says. ...
Thus Tennyson accuses the natural world of being rife with strife and violence. It would be wrong to dispute Tennyson’s complaint outright, but ecologists can present mutualisms, interactions in which both species benefit, as a counterpoint to his argument. One of the best studied is the ant/...