Changing landscape: Farm workers packing potatoes in Magodi village near Ahmedabad in India’s Gujarat state. Expanding farmland is transforming the planet’s biodiversity. Photo: AFP
Humans are eating away at their own life support systems at a rate unseen in the past 10,000 years, say scientists.
Humans are “eating away at our own life support systems” at a rate unseen in the past 10,000 years by degrading land and freshwater systems, emitting greenhouse gases and releasing vast amounts of agricultural chemicals into the environment, new research has found.
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