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Land|use change has affected 'almost a third' of world's terrain since ...


Land-use change has affected 'almost a third' of world's terrain since ...

A 'careful reconstruction'. “Land-use change” is any way in which humans modify the natural landscape. Some of these changes are permanent ...

Global land use changes are four times greater than previously ...

We estimate that land use change has affected almost a third (32%) of the global land area in just six decades (1960-2019) and, thus, is around four times ...

Carbon Brief on X: "NEW - X.com

NEW - Land-use change has affected 'almost a third' of world's terrain since 1960 | @GAViglione ft. @karina_wink @NRamankutty Read ...

Carbon Brief on X: "Land-use change has affected 'almost a third' of ...

Land-use change has affected 'almost a third' of world's terrain since 1960 | @GAViglione ft. @karina_wink @NRamankutty Read here: ...

Chapter 5: Land Cover and Land-Use Change

Humans have had a far-reaching impact on land cover within the contiguous United States. Of the approximately 3.1 million square miles of land area, ...

Land - the planet's carbon sink - the United Nations

Without efforts to restore and protect land, nearly 70 gigatonnes more carbon would be emitted by 2050 due to land use change and soil degradation, representing ...

Land Use - Our World in Data

Half of the world's habitable land is used for agriculture. The extensive land use of agriculture has a major impact on the Earth's environment as it reduces ...

Land Use Change - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics

Land use change · Since the middle of the 20th century, food production has increased dramatically through land use change. · Approximately 38% of the Earth's ...

Land Use and Land Cover Change | National Climate Assessment

Land-use and land-cover changes affect local, regional, and global climate processes. Choices about land-use and land-cover patterns have affected and will ...

Tracking the Causes and Consequences of Land Change - USGS.gov

Land change is tightly intertwined with multiple issues of past, present, and future land-use practices, weather patterns, soil and carbon dynamics, and ...

Special Report on Climate Change and Land - IPCC

Executive Summary · Land degradation affects people and ecosystems throughout the planet and is both affected by climate change and contributes to it. · Land ...

We've crossed the land use change planetary boundary, but ...

According to experts, we have passed the planetary boundary for land systems change — the human-caused loss of forest — and risk ...

Land use, land-use change, and forestry - Wikipedia

The period since 1950 has brought "the most rapid transformation of the human relationship with the natural world in the history of humankind". Almost one-third ...

Global land use changes are four times greater than ... - PubMed

We estimate that land use change has affected almost a third (32%) of the global land area in just six decades (1960-2019) and, thus, is around four times ...

Land is a Critical Resource, IPCC report says

GENEVA, Aug 8 – Land is already under growing human pressure and climate change is adding to these pressures. At the same time, ...

Changes in land use and management led to a decline in Eastern ...

We find that this carbon sink is declining, mainly driven by changes in land use and land management, but also by increasing natural disturbances.

Interactions of land-use cover and climate change at global level

In recent decades, deforestation raised substantially. While the worldwide deforestation rate in 1990–2000 was 3 million hectares per year, it reached 6 million ...

Land Use Effects on Climate: Current State, Recent Progress, and ...

The pathways through which changes in vegetation cover impact climate have been well understood [6]. On the global scale, impacts of LULCC ...

Human impact on global land four times greater than previously ...

From deforestation to agricultural expansion, and from land abandonment to urbanisation, over the last 60 years 43 million sq km of land has ...

Earth has lost a third of arable land in past 40 years, scientists say

The world has lost a third of its arable land due to erosion or pollution in the past 40 years, with potentially disastrous consequences as global demand for ...