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Changing How We Farm Might Protect Wild Mammals—and Fight Climate Change

Civil Eats

First of all, farmland reduces mammals’ natural habitats and diminishes their ability to find shelter as well as food and prey, explained Koen Kuipers, a researcher at Radboud University in the Netherlands. By diversifying the system, you provide a lot more habitat for these natural pollinators to pollinate crops,” said Singh-Varma.

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Agrivoltaic solar farms offer "shocking" benefits beyond producing energy

Agritecture Blog

But solar projects are increasingly being refused planning permission and faced with pushback from rural communities and farmers, who are worried that PV arrays will " blight " the local landscape and take fertile farmland out of production. Colorado State University researchers are using semi-transparent solar panels.

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