Bamboo can help us fight both climate change and poverty
Bamboo is ideal for numerous industrial and household purposes. It is also a nearly limitless resource.
Bamboo is ideal for numerous industrial and household purposes. It is also a nearly limitless resource.
Photo: Pixabay/Kanenori To limit the impacts of climate change, we will need to cut back drastically on global emissions of CO2. Yet that alone won’t be enough. We’ll also need to remove vast quantities of carbon from the atmosphere, stresses
One major challenge is a profound decrease in the amount of arable land available to be cultivated.
Human-caused deforestation disrupts and harms the environment so much that severe droughts are inevitable.
The new UN deal may force us to reconsider the usefulness of such meetings altogether.
Experts have predicted that blizzards will get more severe due to a warming planet that changes weather patterns.
Photo: Pixabay/ottawagraphics When many people think of forests, they think of trees that serve a variety of crucial functions from acting as carbon sinks to providing wildlife habitats. Yet in regrowing forests we will need to focus on more than