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New climate change report underscores the need to manage land for the short and long term

  • Written by Chris E. Forest, Professor of Climate Dynamics, Pennsylvania State University
Undeveloped regions such as the Amazon rainforest are critical resources for slowing climate change.lubasi/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA

In its latest report, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change describes how agriculture, deforestation, and other human activities have altered 70% of the land on Earth’s surface.

These changes are significantly...

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