gady-i-płazy: Climate change in Washington

Evidence: 100 • authority: 72

Climate change for Washington State, in the United States, has major implications on the quality of factors like health, agriculture, air quality, sea levels, and wildlife. Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions continue to rise in concentration, destroying the ozone layer and leading to uncharacteristic rises and falls in temperature that continue the cycle of GHG production in attempts at mitigating the temperature changes. Increased temperatures cause annual snowmelt peaks and glacial melt to occur earlier in the year, resulting in reduced water availability in the summertime. Crops and brush become drier and more flammable, increasing the number of wildfires and destroying the habitats of anima…

Evidence: 68 • authority: 72

There are numerous effects of climate change on agriculture, many of which are making it harder for agricultural activities to provide global food security. Recent research has found that climate change is likely to exacerbate the existing environmental impacts of agriculture by lowering crop productivity, reducing the effectiveness of agrochemicals, increasing soil erosion and pest pressures, and thereby driving greater use of land, water and inputs. Rising temperatures and changing weather patterns often result in lower crop yields due to water scarcity caused by drought, heat waves and flooding. These effects of climate change can also increase the risk of several regions suffering simul…

Evidence: 63 • authority: 92

Challenges to food security in a changing environment: a community-based participatory research study in Casamance, Senegal (West Africa).. Introduction Environmental change is accelerating across West Africa, placing increasing pressure on communities whose livelihoods depend on smallholder and subsistence farming. In Senegal's Casamance region, shifting rainfall patterns, rising temperatures, soil salinization, and deforestation are undermining food production and altering culturally significant landscapes, including sacred forests. While ecological changes are well documented, fewer studies examine how local communities interpret these transformations and how these perceptions relate to…

Evidence: 56 • authority: 72

Evidence: 51 • authority: 72

Agricultural practices have been found to have a variety of effects on the environment to some extent. Animal agriculture, in particular meat production, can cause pollution, greenhouse gas emissions, biodiversity loss, disease, and significant consumption of land, food, and water. Meat is obtained through a variety of methods, including organic farming, free-range farming, intensive livestock production, and subsistence agriculture. The livestock sector also includes wool, egg and dairy production, the livestock used for tillage, and fish farming. Animal agriculture is a significant contributor to greenhouse gas emissions. Cows, sheep, and other ruminants digest their food by enteric ferme…

Evidence: 51 • authority: 72

Present-day climate change includes both global warming—the ongoing increase in global average temperature—and its wider effects on Earth's climate system. In a broader sense, climate change also includes previous long-term changes to Earth's climate. The modern-day rise in global temperatures is driven by human activities, especially fossil fuel (coal, oil and natural gas) burning since the Industrial Revolution. Fossil fuel use, deforestation, and some agricultural and industrial practices release greenhouse gases. These gases absorb some of the heat that the Earth radiates after it warms from sunlight, warming the lower atmosphere. Earth's atmosphere now has roughly 50% more carbon dioxi…

Evidence: 46 • authority: 88

Evidence: 46 • authority: 92

Food systems transformation would reshape global agriculture.. Food systems are a major contributor to exceeding planetary boundaries 1-3 and poor quality diets are a key mortality risk globally 4 . Projected population and income growth could exacerbate these challenges 5 . In response, there are calls for transformation towards healthy and sustainable food systems 6-8 . However, the scale and distribution of the impacts of this transformation on agriculture are underexplored. Here we show that, by 2050, the transformation of food systems towards healthy diets (adoption of the EAT-Lancet reference diet), improved productivity and halving of food waste results in a fundamental restructuring…

Evidence: 46 • authority: 72

Effects of climate change are well documented and growing for Earth's natural environment and human societies. Changes to the climate system include an overall warming trend, changes to precipitation patterns, and more extreme weather. As the climate changes it impacts the natural environment with effects such as more intense forest fires, thawing permafrost, and desertification. These changes impact ecosystems and societies, and can become irreversible once tipping points are crossed. Climate activists are engaged in a range of activities around the world that seek to ameliorate these issues or prevent them from happening. The effects of climate change vary in timing and location. Up until…

Evidence: 45 • authority: 88

Evidence: 45 • authority: 88

Evidence: 45 • authority: 92