#footprint — Public Fediverse posts

With #milk produced by precision #fermentation, its land #footprint could be 96% lower than with #cows milk. The land could e.g. be used for #rewilding, incl. restoration of #forests & #peatland. Given that fermentation is around since a long time and can be… www.sciencealert.com/radical-over... +

Radical Overhaul to Milk Produ...

"Land management categories should be disaggregated in emissions reporting and targets".
"Targets should acknowledge the need for Geological Net Zero, meaning one tonne of CO₂ permanenty restored to the solid Earth from every tonne still generated from fossil sources."
"By adding to cumulative emissions, any entity, country or corporation adds to the total passive carbon sink that needs protection for the foreseeable future."

Allen et al. (2024). https://rdcu.be/d9Rnm

#accounting #accountability #accountancy #fossilFuels #climateChange #carbon #carbonSinks #carbonSink #footprint #targets

"Earth’s forests reached a tipping point. They had grown dense, lush canopies at the start of one of Earth’s most intense episodes of greenhouse warming. But those canopies began to thin."
"The structure of a forest – and importantly its canopy – controls the amount of light that reaches the forest floor, the temperature, water habitat and amount of carbon the forest can store, making it one of the clearest indicators of ecosystem function."
"Forest canopies opened, exposing the ground to more sunlight and altering the movement of water through the landscape."
"As temperatures climbed, heat and drought overwhelmed the benefits of higher carbon dioxide levels. The canopy rapidly thinned as trees died, and it remained much thinner for over 100,000 years."
"Ancient soils gave way to coarser river deposits".

Regan E. Dunn writes: https://theconversation.com/ancient-forests-took-100-000-years-to-recover-from-the-last-global-warming-period-similar-to-today-wyoming-fossils-reveal-what-happened-289462

#forests #ecology #climateChange #degradation #droughts #deforestation #forest #carbon #carbonSinks #carbonSink #footprint #soil

I am starting a thread on global land loss 🧵

#sediments #mining #climate #rivers #deforestation #soil #carbon #causality #land #footprint #dataViz

I am starting a thread on global land loss 🧵

#sediments #mining #climate #rivers #deforestation #soil #carbon #causality #land #footprint #dataViz

With 17 Mha of UK land used for #agriculture and 11 Mha agricultural land abroad linked to food & feed #imports, the land #footprint of these imports should be an important focus when evaluating #environment consequences of UK food consumption: doi.org/10.1371/jour... #FoodSecurity #Trade #LandUse

Global land footprint of UK fo...

"The authors report that the occurrence of extensive deforestation in tandem with climate change will cause the remaining rainforest to lose resilience at global-warming levels of or slightly higher than 1.5 °C — rather than 4 °C — above pre-industrial levels".

Wunderling, N., Sakschewski, B., Rockström, J. et al. "Deforestation-induced drying lowers Amazon climate threshold." (2026). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10456-0

#droughts #deforestation #landGrab #landUse #landUseChange #forests #forest #carbon #carbonSinks #carbonSink #footprint #Brazil #beef #cattle #Amazon #Amazonia #climateChange

2/ This is a short summary of the plan and how it is supposed to work.

Currently it is German only, but an English translation will follow.

https://hot-climate-topics.net/2026/05/18/millions4-earth/

#millions4earth #footprint #handprint #climateprotection #climatecatastrophy #CO2 #massextinction .

The time has come. We're starting. When will we reach 1,000? When 10,000? When a million?
Sign the #MegaPetition here with #HandPrint and #FootPrint and #Gamification.
We're bringing #ClimateProtection back into people's minds! Everything will be fine. Or at least less bad. Let's go!

https://millions4.earth/m/IFLYQYSP?lang=en

#millions4earth

"Cascading transition risks towards degraded ecosystems in the #Amazon biome[:] The large majority of the simulated transitions is caused by spatial knock-on effects from increasing drought intensities, leading to long-ranging and self-propelling cascades on scales of hundreds to thousands of kilometres."

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10456-0

#droughts #deforestation #landGrab #landUse #landUseChange #forests #forest #carbon #carbonSinks #carbonSink #footprint #Brazil #Mercosur #beef #cattle #Amazonia

#Agriculture is a key driver of #landuse change and terrestrial #carbon & biodiversity loss. But its environment #footprint can be reduced by sustained #productivity growth: Globally, historic crop improvement (1961-2015) resulted net in less #cropland expansion, lower GHG #emissions, and more plant & animal species being saved from extinction (plus the higher #yields generally lowered commodity prices of staple crops): https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2404839122 #biodiversity #foodsecurity

Mapped - Human Impact Across The World
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https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/human-impact-world-map/ <-- shared technical article
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https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2016.67 <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #global #spatialanalysis #weighted #humanimpact #world #infrastructure #development #building #food #agriculture #farming #navigation #spatiotemporal #buildings #urban #suburban #populationdensity #croplands #pasture #roads #transportation #factors #parameters #inputs #metrics #impacts #impactassessment #footprint #humanfootprint #weighting #normalisation #multifaceted #multiplefactoranalysis #MFA #footprint
#VisualCapitalist