Land Management News
May 14, 2024
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May 8, 2024 How do city residents feel about animals in their immediate surroundings? A recent study shows how different the acceptance of various wild animals in urban areas is. Important factors are the places where the animals are found and their level of ...
May 2, 2024 The alarming rates of biodiversity loss worldwide have made clear that the classical way of governing biodiversity recovery based on protected areas and programs for the protection of endangered ...
Apr. 25, 2024 Global biodiversity has declined between 2% and 11% during the 20th century due to land-use change alone, according to a large multi-model study. Projections show climate change could become the main ...
Mar. 22, 2024 There can be no analysis without data. In this spirit, researchers have published a database containing over 6,000 agri-environmental policies, thus enabling their peers as well as policymakers and businesses to seek answers to all manner of ...
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Apr. 18, 2024 The EU wants to ensure greater sustainability in agricultural trade with the Global South -- with the aim of minimizing the environmental and climate-damaging effects of importing crops such as soya, ...
Apr. 16, 2024 Florida is projected to lose 3.5 million acres of land to development by 2070. A new study highlights how Florida can buffer itself against both climate change and population pressures by conserving ...
Mar. 18, 2024 One of the largest studies on wildlife activity reveals that wild animals react differently to humans depending on where the animals live and what ...
Mar. 15, 2024 In order to limit the increase in global average temperature to 1.5 C, it is essential to drastically reduce carbon dioxide emissions in the atmosphere. This would mean not exploiting most of the ...
Feb. 29, 2024 Researchers have quantified how climate change risks to human and natural systems increase at a national scale as the level of global warming ...
Feb. 26, 2024 To become carbon neutral by 2060, China will have to build eight to 10 times more wind and solar power installations than existed in 2022, according to a new study. Reaching carbon neutrality will ...
Feb. 15, 2024 Africa's forested areas -- an estimated 14 % of the global forest area -- are continuing to decline at an increasing rate -- mostly because of human activities to convert forest land for economic ...
Feb. 7, 2024 Researchers report that replacing 50% of animal products with alternative proteins by 2050 could free up enough agricultural land to generate ...
Jan. 26, 2024 An international group of leading scientists call for an urgent change in the governance of urban expansion as the world's cities continue to grow at unprecedented ...
Jan. 18, 2024 The collaboration between scientists, farmers and managers is crucial to improve the protection of the little bustard, an endangered steppe-land bird ...
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Mar. 27, 2024 Legislators love bundling things together. It lets them accomplish more with less hassle and attempt to make legislation more appealing to a broader group. But a new study suggests that this can ...
Jan. 10, 2024 An international group of researchers finds that conserving about half of global land area could maintain nearly all of nature's contributions to people and still meet biodiversity targets for ...
Dec. 21, 2023 How do national policies impact deforestation? Researchers have looked into this question at the global scale and have found that, contrary to common assumptions, national strategies have a ...
Dec. 15, 2023 Early 2024, the European Parliament will take a final vote on the 'Nature Restoration Law' (NRL), a globally unique but hotly debated regulation that aims to halt and reverse biodiversity ...
Dec. 12, 2023 A climate policy that raises the price of carbon-intensive products across the entire U.S. economy would yield a side benefit of reducing nitrate groundwater contamination throughout the Mississippi ...
Nov. 22, 2023 The land use, land use change, and forestry sector plays a strong role in achieving global climate targets, but a gap exists between how scientists and countries account for its emissions. A new ...
Nov. 16, 2023 Human trade and transport have led to the intentional and accidental introductions of non-native species outside of their natural range globally. These biological invasions can cause extinctions, ...
Nov. 13, 2023 New study estimates that natural forest recovery could capture approximately 226 Gigatonnes (Gt) of carbon, but only if we also reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Achieving these results requires ...
Nov. 8, 2023 Analyses of U.S. national forests shows that increased protections for two Alaskan forests is a key to meeting climate and biodiversity ...
Oct. 19, 2023 Humanity must cut carbon emissions and use farmland more efficiently to protect our planet's remaining wilderness, new research ...
Oct. 12, 2023 Viewed globally, it is above all individuals and households that are pursuing adaptation to the impacts of climate change; systematic networking of the various groups affected is ...
Sep. 27, 2023 Protecting large swaths of Earth's land can help stem the tide of biodiversity loss -- especially when those protected areas are in less disturbed landscapes and in countries with effective ...
Sep. 20, 2023 New research examines the 'revolution' in the study of deforestation brought about by satellites, and analyzing which kinds of policies might limit climate-altering ...
Sep. 12, 2023 Replacing 50% of meat and milk products with plant-based alternatives by 2050 can reduce agriculture and land use related greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 31% and halt the degradation of forest and ...
Aug. 31, 2023 At a time of unparalleled rates of biodiversity loss, a new interconnected system to monitor biodiversity around the world is needed to guide action quickly enough to target conservation efforts to ...
Aug. 23, 2023 Fresh research suggests that national parks enhance bird diversity inside their borders. Large parks also support higher diversity of both birds and mammals in nearby unprotected ...
Aug. 9, 2023 New research indicates that mitigating both local land and sea-based human impacts, especially in terms of pollutants and over-fishing, provides coral reef ecosystems with the best opportunity to ...
July 19, 2023 Researchers have created the first tool to map and visualize the areas where human settlements and nature meet on a global scale. The tool could improve responses to environmental conflicts like ...
July 10, 2023 Indonesia, home to the largest tropical rainforest in Southeast Asia and over 17,500 islands, is a country packed with biodiversity and endangered species. However, scientists studying the ...
July 10, 2023 Financial payments made by land developers to offset their impacts on threatened species may fall short, according to new ...
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- Conservation in Indonesia Is at Risk, a Team of Researchers Who Study the Region Argues
- Developer Dollars Not Enough to Save Species
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- Worse Than Diesel and Gasoline? Bioenergy as Bad as Fossils If There Is No Pricing of CO2 Emissions from Land-Use Change, Experts Argue
- Investing in Nature Improves Equity, Boosts Economy
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- Researchers Design Model That Predicts Which Buildings Will Survive Wildfire
- Lack of Ecosystem Services Corresponds to Non-White Areas, Researchers Find
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- Scientific Plan for Nature-Based Climate Solutions
- Too Little, Too Late: Study Examines Why the Endangered Species Act Fails
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- Dolphin Bycatch from Fishing Practices Unsustainable, Study Finds
- How to Balance Economic Development Goals With Environmental Conservation
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- Protecting Species for the Good of Global Climate
- Study Reveals Stream Restoration Trade-Offs: Higher Environmental Benefits to Be Had Where Homeowners Are Less Willing to Pay
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- Studies of Endangered Animals on Border of China and Vietnam Stress Need for Transboundary Conservation
- Agricultural Expansion a Major Cause to Doubling of Annual Tropical Carbon Loss Over Past Two Decades
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- Climate Change and Land Use Data to Predict Watershed Impact
- Data from Thousands of Cameras Confirms Protected Areas Promote Mammal Diversity
- Decreasing Development on Forest and Agricultural Land Partly Driven by Gas Prices, Study Finds