Climate crisis reducing land’s ability to sustain humanity, says IPCC

The climate crisis is damaging the ability of the land to sustain humanity, with cascading risks becoming increasingly severe as global temperatures rise, according to a landmark UN report compiled by some of the world’s top scientists.

Deforestation in Brazil’s Para state. Stripping land
wholesale, for uses such as cattle farms and coffee
 plantations, can affect the climate which then affects
 the health of the land.

Global heating is increasing droughts, soil erosion and wildfires while diminishing crop yields in the tropics and thawing permafrost near the poles, says the report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Further heating will lead to unprecedented climate conditions at lower latitudes, with potential growth in hunger, migration and conflict and increased damage to the great northern forests.

Read the story from The Guardian by Damian Carrington - “Climate crisis reducing land’s ability to sustain humanity, says IPCC.”