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7 Inspiring Climate Change Solutions

Katherine E Kerlin — April 22, 2024 - 9:06am

Plastic made from cheese whey? Growing food with pistachio shells? Wildfire-proof housing? Seven inspiring 51�ԹϺ�� Davis research projects seek climate solutions for California and beyond.

Coming Back to Soil

Katherine E Kerlin — May 03, 2022 - 1:09pm

Soil Life, a project between 51�ԹϺ�� Davis and the Natural Resources Conservation Service, aims to educate people about the necessity of soil to support and sustain life and empower young people with solutions to some of our greatest global challenges.

Carbon Payments Play Pivotal Role in Forest Protection Program

Katherine E Kerlin — February 23, 2022 - 8:00am

When pay-to-conserve programs don’t come through with payments, they don’t conserve, indicates a case study by the University of California, Davis, of a REDD+ Readiness program on the island of Pemba, off the coast of Tanzania.

Unfold Podcast, Episode 5: Is Rock Dust a Climate Change Solution?

Katherine E Kerlin — October 20, 2020 - 9:00am

Agriculture is responsible for 24 percent of our global greenhouse gas emissions. Despite this, 51�ԹϺ�� Davis researchers say agriculture holds huge potential to be one of the biggest solutions to climate change. Carbon farming may hold the key. The newest episode of Unfold examines how scientists are adding rock dust to crops to see if it can sequester carbon while also increasing yields for farmers.

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Almond Orchard Recycling a Climate-Smart Strategy

Katherine E Kerlin — April 01, 2020 - 12:19pm

Recycling trees onsite can sequester carbon, save water and increase crop yields, making it a climate-smart practice for California’s irrigated almond orchards, finds a study from the University of California, Davis.

Whole orchard recycling is when old orchard trees are ground, chipped and turned back into the soil before new almond trees are planted.

$4.7M to Study Storing Greenhouse Gases in Soil

Katherine E Kerlin — January 16, 2019 - 3:23pm

California leads the nation in reducing greenhouse gas emissions, but reductions alone will not be enough to reach the targets set by the 2015 Paris climate agreement. To do that, greenhouses gases like carbon dioxide will need to be removed from the atmosphere on a monumental scale.