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The privatization of collectively used rangelands results in fragmentation of land use in pastoral areas. This affects pastoralists’ grazing strategies and results in new institutional arrangements for addressing changing social-ecological systems. Two main systems of grazing management have emerged in the pastoral regions of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau that offer new perspectives on addressing rangeland fragmentation.

Nearly 59m hectares of forests have regrown since 2000, showing that regeneration in some places is paying off An area of forest the size of France has regrown around the world over the past 20 years, showing that regeneration in some places is paying off, a new analysis has found. Nearly 59m hectares of forests

In Kenya, the area of optimal tea-growing conditions will be reduced by more than a quarter by 2050 Your morning cup of tea may never taste the same again if global heating increases and the climate crisis intensifies, according to research. Some of the world’s biggest tea-growing areas will be among the worst hit by

BloombergNEF forecasts result of falling cost of making batteries as well as dedicated production lines Electric cars and vans will be cheaper to produce than conventional, fossil fuel-powered vehicles by 2027, and tighter emissions regulations could put them in pole position to dominate all new car sales by the middle of the next decade, research

Energy experts believe weaning fossil-fuel industries off the rebate would push heavy industry towards using renewables Weaning fossil-fuel industries off diesel fuel rebates could save taxpayers $7.8bn a year, a move energy experts say would accelerate heavy industry’s pivot towards using renewables. Winding back old schemes like the diesel excise rebate was the next best

Publication date: September 2021 Source: Ecological Economics, Volume 187 Author(s): Yingkai Fang, Frank Asche

The European continent contains substantial areas of semi-natural habitats, mostly grasslands, which are among the most endangered habitats in Europe. Their continued existence depends on some form of human activity, for either production or conservation purposes, or both. We examined the share of semi-natural grasslands within the general grassland areas in boreal Europe. We reviewed