Food Security
How remote sensing helps us investigate extreme heat's effect on crop productivity
6 min
Climate change refers to long-term alterations in global or regional climate patterns, often driven by human activities like the burning of fossil fuels and deforestation. It can result in rising temperatures, altered weather patterns, sea level rise, and ecological disruptions.
Join Panagiotis Nyktas, a passionate landscape ecologist, as he discusses the impact of climate change on fragile ecosystems.
Learn about the challenges faced by endemic species in Crete’s mountainous regions that represent larger global trends and the urgent need for holistic models to better understand and predict ecosystem dynamics.
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Forests play a vital role in mitigating global warming and preventing biodiversity loss. They cover a third of the Earth, and about 45% are in the tropical zone. Most of our forests are natural, while only a small proportion of forests come from plantations.
Although the rate of deforestation has decreased in the last decade, the percentage of pla…