With many regions of the world becoming more arid as a result of the climate change, the crop yield also decreases. New types of crops should therefore be more resistant to aridity.
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Biodiversity is essential for ecosystems to function well and to provide services that are critical for human health, yet it is threatened globally, largely by anthropogenic activity.
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Aerosols are the salt in our climate soup. Step by step climate researchers find out the manyfold ways, in which the tiny particles in the atmosphere affect the formation of clouds and precipitation.
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Since the earliest beginnings of agriculture and livestock farming, humanity has been transforming areas of natural vegetation into cropland and pastures. However, the vegetation covering the continents influences our climate in a variety of ways.
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