The Amazon Rainforest generates its own weather. Each day, the forest’s 390 billion trees release approximately 20 billion metric tons of water vapor into the atmosphere through evapotranspiration, ...

At the Food as Medicine Summit in Chicago, surrounded by leaders in healthcare, food systems and policy, one topic stood out to me as both quietly revolutionary and urgently relevant: agroforestry. It ...

Agroforestry, a sustainable land management system that integrates trees with crops or livestock on the same land unit, serves as a crucial nature-based solution to climate change, yet the practice ...

Agroforestry—the integration of trees and shrubs into crop and animal farming systems—has been used since ancient times to produce fruits, nuts, coffee, cocoa and medicinal herbs. Today, new ...

Cows graze in the shade of a silvopasture, an example of agroforestry, that UNH researchers visited this summer to conduct field assessments to help inform the design of the new agroforestry systems ...

Lost crops, reduced fish numbers, low water levels in rivers and difficult access to potable water have all led to a state of disaster declared in many municipalities in the state of Pará. Severe ...

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