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  • A global zoning scheme is proposed to limit the environmental costs of road building while maximizing its benefits for human development, by discriminating among areas where road building would have high environmental costs but relatively low agricultural advantage, areas where strategic road improvements could promote agricultural production with relatively modest environmental costs, and ‘conflict areas’ where road building may have large agricultural benefits but also high environmental costs.

    • William F. Laurance
    • Gopalasamy Reuben Clements
    • Irene Burgues Arrea
    Research
    Nature
    Volume: 513, P: 229-232

  • Reducing agricultural emissions during times of increasing food demand is a challenge. Research, using the UK as an example, now shows the technical mitigation potential of increasing agricultural yields, reducing farmed area and restoring habitats.

    • Anthony Lamb
    • Rhys Green
    • Andrew Balmford
    Research
    Nature Climate Change
    Volume: 6, P: 488-492

  • High-yield farming systems have the potential to spare non-farmed land for other uses (such as nature conservation), but raise concerns about their other environmental impacts (such as greenhouse gas emissions and soil erosion). This study argues such impacts should be measured per unit of production and shows that viewed this way, some land-efficient systems have less impact than lower-yielding alternatives.

    • Andrew Balmford
    • Tatsuya Amano
    • Rowan Eisner
    Research
    Nature Sustainability
    Volume: 1, P: 477-485

  • Understanding the impacts of government interventions intended to support rural development — such as strengthening land rights or boosting commercial agriculture — is crucial for designing better policies. Two recent studies highlight some of the complexities in measuring outcomes for people and forests.

    • Ben Phalan
    • Reem Hajjar
    News & Views
    Nature Plants
    Volume: 3, P: 1-2

  • Efforts by conservation scientists to draw public attention to the biodiversity crisis are increasingly met with denialist rhetoric. We summarize some of the methods used by denialists to undermine scientific evidence on biodiversity loss, and outline pathways forward for the scientific community to counter misinformation.

    • Alexander C. Lees
    • Simon Attwood
    • Ben Phalan
    Comments & Opinion
    Nature Ecology & Evolution
    Volume: 4, P: 1440-1443

  • Deforestation increases the odds of a species being threatened by extinction, and this effect is disproportionately strong in relatively intact landscapes, suggesting that efforts are needed to protect intact forest landscapes and prevent a new wave of extinctions.

    • Matthew G. Betts
    • Christopher Wolf
    • Taal Levi
    Research
    Nature
    Volume: 547, P: 441-444