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Land-use change for healthy New Zealanders and a healthy environment

Schematic outline of the process followed to create and test the two scenarios to achieve a healthy diet. Credit: Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand (2022). DOI: 10.1080/03036758.2022.2137532 Changing what we farm, and where, could provide all New Zealanders with a healthy diet with benefits to our water, climate, and the national economy, finds new research from two National Science Challenges.…

Climate change and land-use changes increase likelihood of flood events

A year has passed since the flood disaster in the Eifel region, where the flood damaged or destroyed over 100 bridges. Credit: Dominik Kuhn The German government estimates the total losses resulting from the disastrous floods in July 2021 at 32 billion euros. In two studies, one of which is currently available in Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, researchers at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have…