A new study using NASA-German satellite data has uncovered a startling decline in Earth's freshwater resources since May 2014. From 2015 to 2023, satellite measurements revealed that the average amount of freshwater stored on land—including surface water and underground aquifers—was 290 cubic miles lower than the 2002-2014 average. The study utilised data from the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment satellites, …
Drastic changes in land and sea use, overexploitation of species, high pollution levels and climate change has led to an average decline of 68% in the global vertebrate population between 1970 and 2016. The decline in the population of the wildlife species signifies that the average proportional change in animal population sizes and not absolute numbers of individual wildlife lost, …
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