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| Emissions tied to the international trade of agricultural goods are rising Posted: 06 May 2022 03:40 PM PDT Scientists have conducted a thorough examination of international trade in agricultural goods, finding that consumers in wealthy countries enjoy the produce while people in less-developed nations endure heightened greenhouse gas emissions and environmental degradation. |
| World's ocean is losing its 'memory' under global warming Posted: 06 May 2022 12:14 PM PDT Using future projections from the latest generation of Earth System Models, a recent study found that most of the world's ocean is steadily losing its year-to-year memory under global warming. |
| The forest as a shelter for insects in warmer climates? Posted: 06 May 2022 12:14 PM PDT Insect diversity is declining in Bavaria. Land use is a major driver, but the impact of climate change is still unknown. A study has now investigated in more detail how both factors interact in driving insect diversity and what can be done to conserve it. |
| Operating rooms are the climate change contributor no one's talking about Posted: 06 May 2022 12:14 PM PDT The health care industry accounts for about 8.5% of all greenhouse gas emissions in the United States, and surgery is one of hospitals' biggest culprits in this space. Two surgeons-in-training give some solutions to combat this problem. |
| Saving the Mekong delta from 'drowning' Posted: 06 May 2022 11:11 AM PDT Southeast Asia's most productive agricultural region and home to 17 million people could be mostly underwater within a lifetime. Saving the Mekong River Delta requires urgent, concerted action among countries in the region to lessen the impact of upstream dams and better manage water and sediments within the delta, according to an international team of researchers who outline solutions to the region's dramatic loss of sediment essential to nourishing delta land. |
| European farmland could be biggest global reservoir of microplastics, study suggests Posted: 06 May 2022 08:33 AM PDT Farmlands across Europe are potentially the biggest global reservoir of microplastics due to the high concentrations found in fertilizers derived from sewage sludge, new research has shown. |
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