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How to build renewables without threatening biodiversity? Carefully

Building wind or solar farms on land that’s already been cleared or degraded might be a good place to start.
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Where will everyone go?

Where will everyone go?

ProPublica and The New York Times Magazine, with support from the Pulitzer Center, have for the first time modeled how climate refugees might move across international borders. This is what we found.
Study finds widespread degradation, deforestation in African woodlands
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Study finds widespread degradation, deforestation in African woodlands

Deforestation rates in southern Africa's woodlands are five times higher than prior estimates, according to recent research.

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Study finds widespread degradation, deforestation in African woodlands

Study finds widespread degradation, deforestation in African woodlands

New research has found that deforestation rates between 2007 and 2010 in the woodlands of southern Africa were five times greater than previously thought.

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Tracking the shift of tropical forests from carbon sink to source
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Tracking the shift of tropical forests from carbon sink to source

Scientists seeking the tools necessary to tackle climate change need to better understand both the current interplay between carbon and tropical forests and how those forests will respond as temperatures warm.

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