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Accuracy at risk as governments reject specialist mapping tools
Governments are not using the latest mapping technology to report key environmental data about tropical forests to the UN, say researchers.
Hydropower without the environmental impact
Scientists have analysed data from nearly three million rivers across the globe to identify where hydropower stations could be sited with limited environmental impacts.
Forest restoration - 'balance nitrogen-fixing trees with other species'
Reforestation projects could be made more effective with the findings of new research into the constraints on nitrogen fixation among plants.
'Decade of action' to restore world's forests
Leading researchers, including University of Leeds academics, want to see a decade of “global action” to restore the world’s lost and depleted forests.
If I could change one thing for COP27... industrial agriculture
By Dr Jenny Hodbod, Lecturer of Environment and Development, Sustainability Research Institute, School of Earth and Environment