“Species which are not charismatic have been politically overlooked,” said Rounsevell. “Over 70 percent of freshwater species and 61 percent of amphibians have declined [in Europe], along with 26 percent of marine fish populations and 42 percent of land-based animals ... It is a dramatic change and a direct result of the intensification of farming,” he said.

This destruction is also driving mass human migration and increased conflict. Decreasing land productivity makes societies more vulnerable to social instability, says the report, which estimates that in around 30 years’ time land degradation, together with the closely related problems of climate change, will have forced 50 to 700 million people to migrate.

https://earthmaven.io/sustainablehuman/old-story/the-rapid-decline-of-the-natural-world-is-a-crisis-bigger-than-climate-change-M0uScCLStU-3n02SNlOOAQ/

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BBC Climate Change The Facts (2019)
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The sheared-flow stabilized Z pinch has demonstrated long-lived plasmas with fusion-relevant parameters. We present the first experimental results demonstrating sustained, quasi-steady-state neutron production from the fusion Z-pinch experiment, operated with a mixture of 20% deuterium/80% hydrogen by pressure. Neutron emissions lasting approximately 5  μs are reproducibly observed with pinch currents of approximately 200 kA during an approximately 16  μs period of plasma quiescence. The average neutron yield is estimated to be (1.25±0.45)×105  neutrons/pulse and scales with the square of the deuterium concentration. Coincident with the neutron signal, plasma temperatures of 1–2 keV and densities of approximately 1017  cm−3with 0.3 cm pinch radii are measured with fully integrated diagnostics.

Permafrost collapse is accelerating carbon release
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yessssss - The Salk Institute’s Harnessing Plants Initiative (HPI) is an innovative, scalable and bold approach to fight climate change by optimizing a plant’s natural ability to capture and store carbon and adapt to diverse climate conditions. We believe that our approach can help draw down and store more carbon and that we can—combined with other global efforts—mitigate the disastrous effects of climate change while providing more food, fuel and fiber for a growing population. https://www.salk.edu/harnessing-plants-initiative/

The Salk Institute was funded $35 million for this work! By The Audacious Project, which has supported other projects that are very aligned with a solarpunk future as well 🙂 Such as: https://audaciousproject.org/ideas/2018/woods-hole-oceanographic-institution

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