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iTWire Thursday, 01 July 2021 11:46 Greenhouse gas emissions keep on rising at ‘alarming’ rate: study Featured Professor Tommy Wiedmann UNSW
More greenhouse gases were produced in 2018 than any previous year, despite more than 20 countries reducing their carbon emissions since 2000, research from UNSW Sydney and their collaborators has shown.
And while the COVID-19 pandemic may have brought about a temporary reprieve in carbon emission, experts have forecast a return to the previous upward trajectory of greenhouse gas production after observing economic growth moving back to previous levels.
UNSW in a statement issued on Thursday points to a study published this week in
Environmental Research Letters, with researchers showing that road transport, meat consumption and a global trend towards expanding floorspaces – otherwise the hallmarks of affluent economies – were big factors behind greenhouse gas increases while industry, agriculture and
Climate and crops: Farm worker safety is key to future yields
Sustainability Times
01 Jul 2021, 07:24 GMT+10
Germany worries about its wheat, France tries to protect its grapes, and the United States and Canada calculate the agribusiness loss in apples or blueberries when extreme weather, like this week s unprecedented North American heat wave, wreaks havoc. Yet there s another climate-related loss to agriculture: farm workers.
One of them died in the Pacific Northwest on Saturday, as U.S. states like Oregon and Washington ? along with neighboring Canada s British Columbia province ? saw temperatures soar as high as 49.6C. The Oregon agency responsible for workplace safety confirmed it was investigating the death of a man who collapsed while laying out irrigation lines as temperatures at the time climbed to 40C.
Floods may be nearly as important as droughts for future carbon accounting ANI | Updated: Jul 01, 2021 08:30 IST
Washington [US], July 1 (ANI): In a global analysis of vegetation over more than three decades, Stanford University researchers found that photosynthesis the process by which plants take up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere- was primarily influenced by floods and heavy rainfall nearly as often as droughts in many locations.
The paper, published in the journal Environmental Research Letters, highlights the importance of incorporating plant responses to heavy rainfall in modelling vegetation dynamics and soil carbon storage in a warming world. These wet extremes have basically been ignored in this field and we re showing that researchers need to rethink it when designing schemes for future carbonaccounting, said senior study author Alexandra Konings, an assistant professor of Earth system science in Stanford s School of Earth,
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