News Headline
If agriculture advances north under climate change, the emissions cost will be huge
Source
Anthropocene
Publication Date
2020-02-14
Under future climate change, the northern reaches of the planet will become more suitable for farming, which could help us to feed a growing global population in decades to come. But, researchers warn, as agriculture inches into these new lands, it also threatens to release vast amounts of carbon dioxide from the soil – potentially upending the climate progress we’ve achieved by that point.