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This can affect people living in nondryland areas, making desertification an issue relevant to people everywhere. However, there is a huge amount of desert or desert-like land created by the global climate change and other desertification factors that is now available for potential agriculture. ...
When a company´s operations are disrupted due to extreme weather events or changing climate patterns, it’s known as physical risk. Examples include events like: Drought. Floods and hurricanes. Desertification (affecting changes in water availability). Changes to average temperatu...
Food loss and waste (FLW) is recognized as a serious threat to food security, the economy, and the environment [1]. Approximately one-third of all food produced for human consumption (1.3 billion tons of edible food) is lost and wasted across the entire supply chain every year [2]. The...
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The stated reason is that the U.S. wants to better understand and manage its response to the global semiconductor shortage. However, this reason is a joke. That information the U.S. needs is publicly available. The U.S. "survey" looks to many like an attempt by t...
From a scientific standpoint, the biggest problem – high greenhouse gas emissions leading to a warming climate, in addition to myriad other environmental concerns (e.g., ocean acidification, biodiversity loss, desertification, etc.) – is well known, and its solution is likewise str...
For millennia, noted Lillo, there has been a“Mediterranean forest” of olive trees which both protect against desertification and clean the atmosphere by removing carbon from it. The IOC has developed an assessment tool and sponsored extensive research on olive cultivation, olive oil production, and...
The big issue of the day is Climate Change. From rising sea levels to emission of fossil fuels, from desertification to water and air quality, there are many issues currently being discussed at the highest levels of government, nationally and internationally. The COP26 summit in Gla...
The greatest climate change disaster on record since the last ice age may have been the desertification of the Sahara about five millennia ago; a great challenge for climate models. So I don’t disagree with your concern about scenario B from a scientific perspective. There appears to be an...