New research shows that US irrigation helps farmers grow more food on less land, reducing greenhouse gas emissions by a significant amount. Without irrigation, replacing lost crop yields would require converting natural ecosystems to farmland, releasing an estimated 6.86 gigatons of greenhouse gases, equivalent to about 363 years of current US irrigation emissions.
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