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05/17/2023 SOURCE: www.universiteitleiden.nl

If we do nothing, more plants will go extinct

A wide range of plant species is essential to our earth because of the different materials and foods these plants provide. But plant diversity has decreased drastically in recent decades. PhD candidate Kaixuan Pan explains what we can do to increase it once again.

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How plant-based diets not only reduce our carbon footprint, but also increase carbon capture

Almost 100 billion tons of CO₂ could be pulled out of the atmosphere by the end of the century. That is, if high-income countries switch to a plant-based diet. The double carbon profit of returning farmland to its natural state would equal about 14 years’ worth of agricultural emissions, researchers…

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Bacteria stunt with established plant-soil feedback theory

‘What I find most alluring about soil life is that you can steer it,’ researcher Martijn Bezemer of the Institute Biology Leiden (IBL) reveals. ‘You can ask: What do you want? And then I can transform the soil into something you need. At least, that is what we thought.’

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If we do nothing, more plants will go extinct

How plant-based diets not only reduce our carbon footprint, but also increase carbon capture

Bacteria stunt with established plant-soil feedback theory

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