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Emory environmental scientist Debjani Sihi combined field-level data with machine-learning techniques to estimate soil organic carbon at the U.S. scale, another step toward providing more accurate baseline data to improve Earth system models for climate change.
Climate change will cause the US Corn Belt to be unsuitable for cultivating corn if major technological advances do not take place.
Both technological solutions and a change in farming patterns will be needed to adapt to this shift.
Climate change will make the U.S. Corn Belt unsuitable for cultivating corn by 2100 without major technological advances in agricultural practices, an Emory University study finds.