Environment, hydrometeorology and ecosystems

Impact of agricultural land use in Central Asia: a review

Central Asia is geopolitically and strategically important because of its geographic position. The Central Asian states Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan are situated in the heart of the Eurasian continent and form a trade link between China, the Middle East, and Europe. Upon entering into membership in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, this region has …

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Biodiversity

Recarbonization of global soils

The implementation of proven Soil Organic Carbon (SOC)-centred Sustainable Soil Management (SSM) practices for maintaining carbon rich soils (peatlands, black soils, permafrost, etc.) and for sequestering more carbon in soils with such potential (croplands and degraded soils), would address the challenge of compensating global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Soil organic carbon sequestration has been shown …

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Climate change

New paper: Consistency of satellite climate data records for Earth system monitoring

Researchers from the ESA Climate Change Initiative tackle the issue of consistency between satellite-based Climate Data Records (CDRs), in a new paper published today [3 July,2020] in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. https://journals.ametsoc.org/bams/article/doi/10.1175/BAMS-D-19-0127.1/348541/Consistency-of-satellite-climate-data-records-for

Trade, markets and food

Progress report 1987

Asian Vegetable Research and Development Center

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