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NASA satellites help calculate Forests’ Impacts on Global Carbon Budget

Climate, Agriculture and Forests

A team of international researchers, including NASA scientists, has created a new method to assess the impact of changes in forests over the past two decades on atmospheric carbon concentrations. They used ground, air, and satellite data for the assessment. In addition to better understanding the overall role of forests in the global carbon cycle,…

Agroecology: reducing the rate of CO2 by agriculture

Agriculture and Forests

Agriculture could become the solution to climate change, instead of being part of the problem. This would mean spreading the principles of agroecology while creating resilience to climate change and crop diseases. Claire Chen, a professor at the French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and the Environment (INRAE), explains: “The main idea behind the…