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Environment Tropical forests can regrow within 20 years on some abandoned farmland. In the tropics, trees are cleared to make way for farmland that is abandoned once the soil is no longer ...
Abandoned farmland is growing fast. Despite increases in cultivated areas in many developing and tropical regions, the amount of land under agriculture globally has been in decline since 2001.
Lai Chi Wo is one of Hong Kong’s oldest settlements — and one of its most biodiverse. Abandoned in the last century, it became a ghost town. Now, a project is bringing in new residents, and ...
Farmland is often a battleground in the fight against climate change. Solar panels and energy crops are pitted against food production, while well-intended policy choices can create incentives for ...
Since May, he’s been taking a 112 acre field alongside the Raritan River in Somerset County that’s been New Jersey farmland since the 1600s and turning it back into a forest.
Much the same has been happening in Europe, where forest cover is now up to 43 percent, often from naturally recolonizing farmland rather than planting. Italy, for instance, has grown its forest ...
As abandoned farmland returns to natural forests, many communities are benefiting, as foraging, processing, and selling these products offer an economic alternative where large-scale timber ...
Abandoned in the last century, it became a ghost town. Now, a project is bringing in new residents, and promoting sustainable living. This 300-year-old farming village was abandoned in the 1960s.
Surrounded by forest-covered mountains cloaked in mist, a patchwork quilt of green farmland and steel-blue waves breaking on mangrove-strewn mudflats, Lai Chi Wo does not look like it belongs in ...
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Surrounded by forest-covered mountains cloaked in mist, a patchwork quilt of green farmland and steel-blue waves breaking on ...
Lai Chi Wo is one of Hong Kong’s oldest settlements — and one of its most biodiverse. Abandoned in the last century, it became a ghost town. Now, a project is bringing in new residents, and ...
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