Household action can play major role in climate change fight - study
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Encouraging people in North America and Sub-Saharan Africa to adopt a low-carbon lifestyle could help to cut global household emissions of planet-warming carbon dioxide by up to two-fifths, a new study reveals.
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ITHACA, N.Y. - People have assumed climate change solutions that sequester carbon from the air into soils will also benefit crop yields.
But a new study from Cornell University finds that most regenerative farming practices to build soil organic carbon – such as planting cover crops, leaving stems and leaves on the ground and not tilling – actually reduce yields in many situations.
New research reveals mountain glaciers across the globe will not recover for centuries – even if human intervention cools the planet back to the 1.5°C limit, having exceeded it.
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