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Boosting food crop yields 'can protect biodiversity'
2016-01-29 16:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: Increasing crop yields could help meet the rising global demand for more food while sparing land to protect biodiversity, a study has suggested. The expansion of agriculture is deemed to be one of the main drivers for global habitat and biodiversity loss. Researchers from the UK and Brazil say that boosting yields could help - but only if policies such as incentives or land-zoning are implemented as well. Their findings have been published in the journal Science. "The least bad way we...
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Exploiting renewable energy while allowing for protecting biodiversity
2015-10-29 20:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Deployment of renewable energy is expanding all over the world. There is high competition between alternative land uses, and conflicts over limited land are likely to emerge between biodiversity conservation and expanded deployment of renewable energy. Dr Andrea Santangeli in the University of Helsinki, Finland, and his colleagues in the UK have explored global expansion of land use for renewable energies versus biodiversity protection. They discovered that the conflicts and opportunities largely...
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Parasitic flatworms flout global biodiversity patterns
2015-07-24 12:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] IMAGE: A trematode worm bites and sucks out the insides of an enemy species, with the eyespots of the victim's offspring still visible inside the attacker's gut. At least 20 species. Credit: Ryan Hechinger The odds of being …
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Mega-dams doing drastic harm to tropical biodiversity: study
2015-07-13 19:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Researchers with the University of East Anglia say the full extent of impacts to biodiversity of large hydroelectric dams in lowland tropical forest regions have been "severely overlooked." Mega-dams are being proposed the world over as sustainable development projects, even though there have been plenty of studies calling attention to the fact that the emissions savings from hydroelectric dams are drastically overstated. But this is one of the first times that such an extensive study has been done...
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'Land sparing' vs. 'land sharing': scientists how improve biodiversity on farms
2015-07-06 17:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: To protect natural ecosystems in the long term, some conservationists advocate "land sparing," in which farmers intensify agricultural practices to boost yields, theoretically enabling them to forgo expansion into natural areas. Others advocate "land sharing," in which farmers take over more land but use low-intensity, more environmentally friendly agricultural practices. High-intensity practices on land-sparing farms, such as heavy planting, grazing, and use of fertilizer and pesticides, can threaten...
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