UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) says pace of urbanization in Africa and Asia contributing to climate change and planting trees could improve air quality, cut risk of floods and heatwaves and halt land degradation
“The eroded areas are especially dangerous, directly affecting residential areas, administrative areas, education and healthcare facilities,” the report said
The meeting comes as the United Nations warns more must be done to meet targets for limiting carbon emissions
Friday's demonstrations come days before emergency UN summit on global warming
Greta Thunberg brings her campaign for urgent action on climate change to the US Capitol
Systems in which humans and environment are linked and interact 'are on a very worrying trajectory, threatening the very existence of humanity,' group chairman says
Some 50 million people downstream rely for a living on river's waters, along with fish and sediment it washes their way; researchers and environmental advocates say dam could block both
Fires across the Brazilian Amazon have sparked an international outcry for preservation of the world's largest rainforest
Fires are mostly set to clear land for farming, ranching or logging; critics of Brazil's president say ranching and mining interests eager to expand their holdings have been emboldened by his oft-stated desire to increase regional development
However, more research is needed, the UN agency said, of the estimated 5 ounces of plastics ingested each week
New report on warming and land presents grim, hungry future
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