Search CheTerraPesti - The earth beneath your feet #101

Found 8 bookmarks

Newest

Thirty years of Italian Land Use Inventory (IUTI), a functional tool for monitoring historical changes in the national landscape

Italy’s land-use record reveals shrinking arable land and grasslands, expanding woodland and urban areas, and confirms IUTI as a reliable national framework for detecting long-term landscape transformation and supporting planning.

Thirty years of Italian Land Use Inventory (IUTI), a functional tool for monitoring historical changes in the national landscape

Technosols and urban metabolism for counteracting land take and re-shaping waste flows

Waste-based technosols emerge as a circular, nature-based response to urban land take and waste accumulation, restoring ecosystem services, supporting greening, and easing pressure on fertile peri-urban land for cities worldwide.

Technosols and urban metabolism for counteracting land take and re-shaping waste flows

Global study finds majority of people worldwide prioritize environmental protection over economic growth

Across 92 countries, nearly 58% of people favored environmental protection over economic growth, revealing broad, diverse public support for shifting priorities toward ecological well-being rather than growth alone when conflicts arise.

Global study finds majority of people worldwide prioritize environmental protection over economic growth

Revealed: the world’s worst mega-leaks of methane driving global heating

Satellite data exposed dozens of giant methane leaks, mostly from oil and gas sites in Turkmenistan, showing poor maintenance drives warming despite many leaks being cheap and easy to fix.

Revealed: the world’s worst mega-leaks of methane driving global heating

Urban trees can absorb more CO₂ than cars emit on some summer days, Munich study shows

Munich data show trees can outweigh traffic CO₂ on some summer days, yet yearly vegetation offsets stay near 2%; grasslands often remain net emitters because soil respiration exceeds uptake citywide.

Urban trees can absorb more CO₂ than cars emit on some summer days, Munich study shows

CFC replacements cause vast ‘forever chemical’ pollution – new research

CFC replacements helped heal the ozone layer, but many degrade into trifluoroacetic acid, a persistent forever chemical now accumulating globally, exposing the environmental costs of one technological fix for another.

CFC replacements cause vast ‘forever chemical’ pollution – new research

Climate change is altering Saharan dust – and Europe is downwind

Rising heat, drier soils, and shifting winds may send more Saharan dust toward Europe, worsening air quality and stressing farming and solar energy, even as some ecosystems receive nutrients regionally.

Climate change is altering Saharan dust – and Europe is downwind

Why do some people eat soil? From a prisoner’s lifeline to a modern tasting menu, the history of geophagy

Geophagy has deep historical roots, serving ritual, medicinal, and survival purposes across cultures; today it survives from pregnancy cravings to gastronomy, though health agencies warn against unsafe soil consumption worldwide.

Why do some people eat soil? From a prisoner’s lifeline to a modern tasting menu, the history of geophagy