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Climate change and global food demand could drive a loss of up to 23 percent of all natural habitat ranges in the next 80 years. Habitat loss could accelerate to a level that brings about rapid extinctions of already vulnerable species. Shrinking ranges for mammals, amphibians and birds now account for an 18 percent loss of previous natural ranges.

There are some costs we cant pay to avert the climate crisis.

Researchers have reimagined a new layout that would maximize crop yields while reducing carbon emissions and restoring natural habitats worldwide.

We’re not using our lands optimally: that is the message of a new study that shows where the world’s major food crops should be grown to maximise yield and

We're growing food in all the wrong places.

Scientists have produced a map showing where the world’s major food crops should be grown to maximise yield and minimise environmental impact. This would

Scientists have produced a map showing where the world’s major food crops should be grown to maximise yield and minimise environmental impact. This would capture large amounts of carbon, increase biodiversity, and cut agricultural use of freshwater t

The nightlight satellite data in particular is quite useful in estimating non-farm economic activity

India’s Covid-19 lockdown saved lives but wrecked livelihoods. Relief measures are urgently needed Unless the Centre and states act swiftly, the humanitarian crisis is likely to worsen. 15 hours ago The daughter of a migrant worker carrying her belongings walks along a railway track in Ghaziabad, on the outskirts of Delhi, to return to her home state of Bihar. | Reuters/Adnan Abidi As India witnesses a record-breaking surge of Covid-19 cases, the Central and state gov...

bioRxiv: Pierpaolo Maisano Delser, Mario Krapp, Robert Beyer, Eppie Jones, Eleanor F Miller, Anahit Hovhannisyan, Michelle Parker, Veronika Siska, Maria Teresa Vizzari, Elizabeth J Pearmain, Ivan Imaz-Rosshandler, Michela Leonardi, Gian Luigi Somma, Jason Hodgson, Eirlys Tysall, Zhe Xue, Lara Cassidy, Daniel G Bradley, Anders Eriksson, Andrea Manica This article is a preprint and has not been certified by peer review Abstract Extensive sequencing of modern and ancient human genomes has revealed...