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Could Abandoned Agricultural Lands Help Save the Planet?

By Richard Conniff – YaleEnvironment360 – December 10, 2019
People have lived in Castro Laboreiro, where northern Portugal borders Spain, long enough to have built megaliths in the mountainous countryside and a pre-Romanesque church, from 1,100 years ago, in the village itself. But the old rural population has dwindled away, leaving behind mostly elders yearning for their vanishing culture. Read full story here.