Environmental News Network - Cut Emissions and Improve Farming to Protect Wilderness

Details: By University of Exeter; 23.Oct

Humanity must cut carbon emissions and use farmland more efficiently to protect our planet’s remaining wilderness, new research shows.

Cheryl Porter

Humanity must cut carbon emissions and use farmland more efficiently to protect our planet’s remaining wilderness, new research shows.

Climate change is making some wilderness areas more suitable for crop growing, heightening the risk of agricultural expansion, especially in northern areas including Canada, Scandinavia and Russia.

By assessing “future climate suitability” for more than 1,700 crop varieties, the study projects 2.7 million square kilometres of wilderness will become newly suitable for agriculture over the next 40 years.

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