Farming within Earth's limits is still possible—but it will take a Herculean effort
The way we currently produce and consume food takes a big toll on the environment.
Agriculture
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Page 16: Research news on ecosystem management
Ecosystem management is an integrative, adaptive method for planning and implementing interventions in ecological systems to sustain or restore their structure, function, composition, and services over the long term. It emphasizes system-level objectives, such as maintaining biodiversity, ecological integrity, and resilience, rather than optimizing single components or outputs. Methodologically, it combines ecological modeling, long-term monitoring, stakeholder involvement, and scenario-based decision analysis within an adaptive management cycle of hypothesis-driven actions and iterative evaluation. Ecosystem management explicitly incorporates spatial heterogeneity, cross-scale ecological processes, and uncertainty, and often uses tools such as GIS-based landscape analysis, environmental indicators, and decision-support systems to guide management actions and evaluate trade-offs among competing ecological and socio-economic goals.
Central Asia faces 'extreme unsustainability' as land and biosphere limits breached, study warns
A new study delivers a stark warning that Central Asia has overshot its environmental safety limits concerning land footprint and biosphere integrity. The study, led by Prof. Duan Weili from the Xinjiang Institute of Ecology ...
Earth Sciences
Jul 1, 2025
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Restoring kelp forests by culling sea urchins makes financial and ecological sense, according to study
Restoring underwater kelp forests by culling overgrazing sea urchins would deliver significant financial benefits, a new study has found.
Ecology
Jul 1, 2025
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Mapping barriers to natural climate solutions
Conservation, restoration, and ecosystem management can reduce greenhouse gas emissions or increase carbon dioxide sequestration, in what are frequently referred to as "natural climate solutions." Such natural climate solutions ...
Environment
Jun 24, 2025
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Climate change may make prescribed fires rarer, but increases their air quality impacts
Prescribed burns are important for land management and preventing wildfires, but a new study finds these managed fires are also significant contributors to air pollution in the southeastern United States—particularly in areas ...
Environment
Jun 18, 2025
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'Guerrilla rewilding' aims for DIY conservation—but it may do more harm than good
Ever since modern environmentalism took off in the 1960s, people have tried to undo the damage humans have caused to nature. Efforts have ranged from reducing threats, to restoring habitats, to reintroducing vanished species—and ...
Environment
Jun 18, 2025
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Blueprint integrates rewilding and agriculture to tackle biodiversity crisis
Setting aside at least 20% of agricultural landscapes for rewilding and adopting wildlife friendly practices on remaining farmland could reverse biodiversity declines while maintaining food production. That is according to ...
Ecology
Jun 17, 2025
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A data-driven model to help avoid ecosystem collapse
Tipping points are the death of ecosystems. So scientists watch as warning signs gradually worsen until an ecosystem reaches the point of no return, when animal populations suddenly collapse. While tipping points can sometimes ...
Ecology
Jun 16, 2025
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Same ecosystem, different fix: Study finds restoration requires localized approaches, not universal methods
As the world focuses on repairing damaged ecosystems, especially with the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration and new EU Nature Restoration law in place, a new study sounds a clear message: when it comes to restoring nature, ...
Ecology
Jun 11, 2025
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Assessment tool identifies ecologically equivalent areas to guide restoration projects
With successive records of high temperatures around the world and an increase in extreme weather events, the ecological restoration of degraded areas and the new markets associated with it, such as carbon and biodiversity, ...
Environment
Jun 10, 2025
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