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World's Land Slipping in Quality http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1240337559
Nearly 25 percent of land around the world is in bad shape and getting worse, according to a new study, and human activities are to blame.
It's the first study to directly measure the extent of human-induced global land degradation. The phenomenon describes a decline in the quality of soil and vegetation that the land can't recover from on its own.... One and a half billion people currently live in degraded areas. And as soils decline, people reach a point where they can't grow enough food to feed themselves. They move on, leaving the dead land behind....The scientists calculated that all of the vegetation that has been lost from the world's degraded land would have removed an extra billion tons of carbon out of the atmosphere if it were still healthy and green.
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