Abandoned farmland has been increasing, with a billion acres — an area half the size of Australia — lost globally. Ecologists are increasingly pointing to the potential of these lands and of degraded forests as neglected resources for rewilding and for capturing carbon.
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Peter Townsend was just 14 miles from completing a crossing of the Atlantic last week when he felt an unusual tremor run through the hull of his 47ft yacht, the Jubilate Mare. “You first feel a bump of the boat, as if you’ve run aground, or touched something,” says the British sailor. “Then we saw about five or six orcas.”