The 2023 megafires burnt more than 84 million hectares of desert and savannah in northern Australia. That’s larger than the whole of NSW, or more than three times size of the UK.
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Labour, yields, and biodiversity are all elements of agriculture that need to be balanced.
Hungry for development and industry investment, the Northern Territory government is putting one of the world’s last intact tropical ecosystems at risk. Scientists are calling for better protections.
Atmospheric dust storms often follow wildfires and have serious impacts on human health and ecology.
Maintaining ecological balance in savannas is essential
It sounds like a mammoth plan, but bringing back large herbivore species to Europe could help mitigate ecosystem collapse.
One-fifth of Earth’s land could be restored to wilderness by reintroducing animals and improving management.
Geographers are documenting slave-built infrastructure, from railroads to ports, in use today. Such work could influence the reparations debate by showing how slavery still props up the US economy.
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Associate Professor, Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning, University of California, Berkeley
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Professor, Department of Ecology of Tropical Agricultural Systems, University of Hohenheim
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Professor of Conservation Biology, Charles Darwin University
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Systems Agronomist, Cirad
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University of Hohenheim
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Key Biodiversity Areas Secretariat, Cambridge Conservation Institute, University of Cambridge
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Associate Professor of Physical Geography, University of Plymouth
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Associate professor, University of Gothenburg
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Director, Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn
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Research Ecologist, University of Leeds
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Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Galway
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Professor, Department of Botany, Rhodes University
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Professor of Ecology, Charles Darwin University
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Postdoctoral Researcher, National Zoo and Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute
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Senior research fellow, Charles Darwin University