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New climate change report underscores the need to manage land for the short and long term

  • Written by Chris E. Forest, Professor of Climate Dynamics, Pennsylvania State University
New climate change report underscores the need to manage land for the short and long termUndeveloped regions such as the Amazon rainforest are critical resources for slowing climate change.lubasi/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA

In its latest report, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change describes how agriculture, deforestation, and other human activities have altered 70% of the land on Earth’s surface.

These changes are significantly...

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