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===== Agricultural liming in the US is a large CO₂ sink, say researchers ===== | |||
[https://phys.org/news/2025-07-agricultural-liming-large.amp by Goldachmidt Conference 10/7/25 PHYS ORG] | |||
The team, from the Yale Center for Natural Carbon Capture at Yale University, show that the addition of acidity, in the form of atmospheric pollution and fertilizers, is the main driver for CO2 emissions from soils. By calculating emissions based on acid inputs, they show how emissions may be being underestimated in some cases, and the potential for lime to reduce emissions is being overlooked. | |||
===== Fig trees convert atmospheric CO₂ to stone, research reveals ===== | |||
[https://phys.org/news/2025-07-fig-trees-atmospheric-stone-reveals.amp by European Association of Geochemistry 8/7/25 PHYS ORG] | |||
Some species of fig trees store calcium carbonate in their trunks—essentially turning themselves (partially) into stone, new research has found. The team of Kenyan, U.S., Austrian, and Swiss scientists found that the trees could draw carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere and store it as calcium carbonate 'rocks' in the surrounding soil. | |||
===== 'Right size, right place' approach required for climate adaptation plans ===== | |||
[https://phys.org/news/2025-06-size-approach-required-climate.html by University of Glasgow 27/6/25 PHYS ORG] | |||
Sophisticated computer modeling of the Clyde by researchers at the University of Glasgow suggests that urban planners will need to adopt a "right size, right place" approach to tidal flood management in the years to come. | |||
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===== 'Right size, right place' approach required for climate adaptation plans ===== | |||
[https://phys.org/news/2025-06-size-approach-required-climate.html by University of Glasgow 27/6/25 PHYS ORG] | |||
Sophisticated computer modeling of the Clyde by researchers at the University of Glasgow suggests that urban planners will need to adopt a "right size, right place" approach to tidal flood management in the years to come. | |||
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===== Diet for a hotter climate: five plants that could help feed the world ===== | |||
[https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/aug/20/ancient-crops-climate-crisis-amaranth-fonio-cowpeas-taro-kernza by Cecilia Nowell 20/8/22 The Guardian] | |||
Over the course of human history, scientists believe that humans have cultivated more than 6,000 different plant species. But over time, farmers gravitated toward planting those with the largest yields. Today, just three crops – rice, wheat and corn – provide nearly half of the world’s calories. | |||
===== Regenerative agriculture ===== | |||
[https://www.dailykos.com/groups/regenerative%20agriculture by nailkeg 16/7/22 DAILY KOS] | |||
Regenerative agriculture is a conservation and rehabilitation approach to food and farming systems. It focuses on topsoil regeneration, increasing biodiversity, improving the water cycle, enhancing ecosystem services, supporting biosequestration, increasing resilience to climate change, and strengthening the health and vitality of farm soil. | |||
===== Agrivoltaics pairs solar panels with farming, solving multiple climate-caused problems ===== | |||
[https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/7/21/2111772/-Agrivoltaics-pairs-solar-panels-with-farming-solving-multiple-climate-caused-problems by April Siese 21/7/22 DAILY KOS] | |||
Oregon State agriculture professor Chad Higgins explains how solar panels have already helped the university’s research farm crops amidst the current heat wave gripping more than 100 million Americans. “What they do is what we do when we’re out in the sun: we sweat,” Higgins told OPR. | |||
|'''Adding Rock Dust to Soil Can Capture Carbon''' | |||
[[File:LC3M-basalt-spreading-Energy-Farm-Illinois.jpg|center|thumb| [https://e360.yale.edu/features/how-adding-rock-dust-to-soil-can-help-get-carbon-into-the-ground?fbclid=IwAR0a3-HCFxXL1GobAqnprWxO7tOcNfLc-dKs5vJwTzpe-POBl-6Oa8WtVeU BY SUSAN COSIER • SEPTEMBER 2, 2021 Yale Environment360]]] The hemp field experiments go beyond testing which amendments increase yields and sequester carbon and examine how much rock dust should be applied for best results. Some sections got 20 tons of rock dust per acre, while others got 40, allowing the researchers to get a more fine-tuned picture of the relationship between the dust, the soil, and the crops. The research adds to a growing body of scientific work showing the potential for these soil amendments to become one of the many measures needed to help solve our climate crisis. | |||
=====Largest Farm to Grow Crops Under Solar Panels Proves to Be a Bumper Crop for Agrivoltaic Land Use===== | |||
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https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/agrivoltaics-of-solar-power-and-farming-are-a-big-success-on-this-boulder-farm/?fbclid=IwAR2ALVAfvTZo8u-RCd9A6GO6-6uhp285hVPGFtPjZNk53AMBhPy9rqO6ptY by Andy Corbley Nov 2021] | |||
Exciting researchers, farmers, and solar businesses, alike, is the fact that when planting crops under solar panel arrays, the plants grow better and need less watering, while the panels produce more electricity. | |||
=====‘Dangerous blindspot’: why overlooking blue carbon could sink us===== | |||
[https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/nov/06/dangerous-blindspot-why-overlooking-blue-carbon-could-sink-us by Karen McVeigh 11/16/2021] | |||
When the ambitious plan to allow sea water to flood over the Steart peninsula in Somerset was completed in 2014, critics called it a waste of money. Floods had recently blighted the nearby area, and some local people argued the £20m spent on creating a new 250-hectare (617-acre) salt marsh would have been better spent on other flood-prevention projects. | |||
=====The Enormous Hole That Whaling Left Behind===== | |||
[https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/11/whaling-whales-food-krill-iron/620604/?utm_source=Nature%20Briefing&utm_campaign=d16d818218-briefing-dy-20211104&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c9dfd39373-d16d818218-42787455&fbclid=IwAR0f3VME2PIaArSkNIo3orMqlAbMy6clFuTfyzy4n-rpGcs3B6LGWU2it98 by Ed Yong 11/31/2021 The Atlantic] | |||
Their iron-rich poop acted like manure, fertilizing otherwise impoverished waters and seeding the base of the rich food webs that they then gorged upon. When the whales were killed, those food webs collapsed, turning seas that were once rain forest–like in their richness into marine deserts. | |||
But this tragic tale doesn’t have to be “another depressing retrospective,” Savoca told me. Those pre-whaling ecosystems are “still there—degraded, but still there.” And his team’s study points to a possible way of restoring them—by repurposing a controversial plan to reverse climate change. | |||
=====[[Ocean CO2 Capture-William Hall|Ocean CO2 Capture by William Hal]]l===== | |||
Supplying these trace elements in micronutrient quantities seems to be sufficient to make these areas literally bloom. It remains to the 'farmers' to seed the fertilized areas with optimum mixes of phytoplankton and zooplankton to maximize the carbon captured; and then to add and manage suitable suites planktivores and higher order predators to package the captured carbon in fecal pellets and carcases that will rapidly sink to the ocean floor before the captured carbon can be recycled into CO₂. | |||
=====This 2-Acre Vertical Farm Is Managed by AI and Robots and Uses 99% Less Land===== | |||
[https://mymodernmet.com/plenty-vertical-farm/?fbclid=IwAR3NNqnFa0kZrmcvbHd5Ivei7Db_Yl6h7XiwdyRu8Y1ru_JJvnpqZF3_BFU My Modern Met Samantha Pires on December 29, 2020] | |||
The company’s farm is yielding enough produce to fill 720 acres of typical farm land, but they are doing it with just two acres of vertical farming. Plenty says their farm produces around 400 times more food per acre than the traditional farm. Aside from the impressive food production, they are also managing production with robots and artificial intelligence. | |||
=====An ancient people with a modern climate plan===== | |||
[https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2020/11/24/native-americans-climate-change-swinomish/?arc404=true Washington Post] | |||
By Jim Morrison NOVEMBER 24, 2020 | |||
The tribe has responded with an ambitious, multipronged strategy to battle climate change and improve the health of the land and the water and the plants, animals and people who thrived in harmony for generations. In 2010, the Swinomish became one of the first communities to assess the problems posed by a warming planet and enact a climate action plan. An additional 50 Native American tribes have followed, creating climate strategies to protect their lands and cultures, ahead of most U.S. communities. | |||
The Swinomish see the tasks beyond addressing shoreline risk and restoring habitats. They look at climate adaptation and resilience with the eyes of countless generations. They recognize that the endangered “first foods” — clams, oysters, elk, traditional plants and salmon — are not mere resources to be consumed. They are central to their values, beliefs and practices and, therefore, to their spiritual, cultural and community well-being. | |||
=====California and Australia look to Indigenous land management for fire help ===== | |||
September 01, 2020 · 12:45 PM EDT By Anna Kusmer | |||
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Hankins says he has contemplated the benefits of cultural burning — a form of traditional fire management passed down through generations among Indigenous people in fire-prone landscapes — for most of his life. | |||
The practice entails carefully burning areas during the wet season to reduce flammability and vulnerability in advance of fire season. Burning also helps improve soil quality, spurs the growth of certain plant species and creates more productive landscapes. | |||
Hankins found international inspiration back in 2003, when he flew over northern Australia, on his way to do some dissertation research, and saw small fires — set carefully and intentionally. | |||
It was the first time he had seen Indigenous burning practices done on a landscape scale. “I could do that in California,” he thought to himself. | |||
=====Coating seeds in these microbes superpowers plants’ carbon capture abilities===== | =====Coating seeds in these microbes superpowers plants’ carbon capture abilities===== | ||
