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  2. Environmental impact of agriculture - Wikipedia

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    The negative impact of agriculture is an old issue that remains a concern even as experts design innovative means to reduce destruction and enhance eco-efficiency. [2] Animal agriculture practices tend to be more environmentally destructive than agricultural practices focused on fruits, vegetables and other biomass. The emissions of ammonia ...

  3. Agricultural pollution - Wikipedia

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    If they establish, they become an invasive species that can impact populations of native species [55] and threaten agricultural production. [12] For example, the transport of bumblebees reared in Europe and shipped to the United States and/or Canada for use as commercial pollinators has led to the introduction of an Old World parasite to the ...

  4. Environmental impacts of animal agriculture - Wikipedia

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    Examples of environmental impacts of animal agriculture: Meat production is a main driver of deforestation in Venezuela; Pigs in intensive farming; Testing Australian sheep for exhaled methane production to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture; Farms often pump their animal waste directly into a large lagoon, which has environmental ...

  5. Environmental impact of pesticides - Wikipedia

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    For example, the northern corn rootworm (Diabrotica barberi) became adapted to a corn-soybean crop rotation by spending the year when the field is planted with soybeans in a diapause. [ 107 ] As of 2014 [update] , few new weed killers are near commercialization, and none with a novel, resistance-free mode of action. [ 108 ]

  6. List of environmental issues - Wikipedia

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    Intensive farming — Agricultural subsidy • Barn fires • Environmental effects of meat production • Intensive animal farming • Intensive crop farming • Irrigation • Monoculture • Nutrient pollution • Overgrazing • Pesticide drift • Plasticulture • Slash-and-burn • Tile drainage • Zoonosis

  7. Bad things we do to good trees: Examples abound in North ...

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    The same thing happens when a limb breaks off and falls to the ground and we do no follow-up pruning to clean up the wounds. Those stubs do not heal properly. Decay sets in after a couple of years.

  8. Agricultural waste - Wikipedia

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    Agricultural waste are plant residues from agriculture. These waste streams originate from arable land and horticulture. Agricultural waste are all parts of crops that are not used for human or animal food. Crop residues consist mainly of stems, branches (in pruning), and leaves. [1]

  9. Greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture - Wikipedia

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    The amount of greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture is significant: The agriculture, forestry and land use sectors contribute between 13% and 21% of global greenhouse gas emissions. [2] Emissions come from direct greenhouse gas emissions (for example from rice production and livestock farming). [3] And from indirect emissions.