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Climate change solutions not always good for biodiversity
2 months, 3 weeks ago

Climate change solutions not always good for biodiversity

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Some approaches to tackling global warming can have unintended knock-on consequences for nature and the protection of biodiversity, say scientists urging a more coordinated effort on these challenges. The IPBES and the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warned in 2021 that a siloed approach risked "actions which, inadvertently, prevent the resolution of one or the other problem, or even …

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Up to 850,000 animal viruses could be caught by humans, unless we protect nature: UN report
4 years, 2 months ago

Up to 850,000 animal viruses could be caught by humans, unless we protect nature: UN report

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The report says an estimated 1.7 million currently undiscovered viruses are thought to exist in mammal and avian hosts. A major report released today says up to 850,000 undiscovered viruses which could be transferred to humans are thought to exist in mammal and avian hosts. Without preventative strategies, pandemics will emerge more often, sp The report says, on average, five …

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Treat nature right or future pandemics will wreck more havoc than COVID-19 did says UN panel
4 years, 2 months ago

Treat nature right or future pandemics will wreck more havoc than COVID-19 did says UN panel

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Seventy percent of emerging diseases — such as Ebola, Zika and HIV/AIDS — are zoonotic in origin, meaning they circulate in animals before jumping to humans. “There is no great mystery about the cause of the Covid-19 pandemic — or any modern pandemic,” said Peter Daszak, president of the Ecohealth Alliance and chair of the IPBES workshop that drafted the …

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地球未来很“凄惨”？100万个物种正遭受灭绝威胁
5 years, 8 months ago

地球未来很“凄惨”？100万个物种正遭受灭绝威胁

China Daily  

一份由联合国生物多样性和生态系统服务政府间科学政策平台发布的报告显示，如今在全世界800万个物种中有100万个正因人类而遭受灭绝威胁，全球物种灭绝的“平均速度已经数十甚至数百倍于千万年前”。 A view of Yangshuo in Guilin city, Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region. 这份具有里程碑意义的报告描绘的灰暗图景显示因全球人口增长而遭受破坏的地球，人类无止境的消费正在毁掉大自然。 insatiable ：adj.贪得无厌的；不知足的 The global rate of species extinction "is already tens to hundreds of times higher than it has been, on average, over the last 10 million years," according to the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, a UN committee, whose report was written by …

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地球未来很“凄惨”？100万个物种正遭受灭绝威胁
5 years, 8 months ago

地球未来很“凄惨”？100万个物种正遭受灭绝威胁

China Daily  

一份由联合国生物多样性和生态系统服务政府间科学政策平台发布的报告显示，如今在全世界800万个物种中有100万个正因人类而遭受灭绝威胁，全球物种灭绝的“平均速度已经数十甚至数百倍于千万年前”。 A view of Yangshuo in Guilin city, Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region. 这份具有里程碑意义的报告描绘的灰暗图景显示因全球人口增长而遭受破坏的地球，人类无止境的消费正在毁掉大自然。 insatiable ：adj.贪得无厌的；不知足的 The global rate of species extinction "is already tens to hundreds of times higher than it has been, on average, over the last 10 million years," according to the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, a UN committee, whose report was written by …

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UN holds first global study of nature and human race: 100,000 species on path to extinction
5 years, 8 months ago

UN holds first global study of nature and human race: 100,000 species on path to extinction

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With many species on Earth dying, the UN has released a study that was three years in the making. Hidden impacts “We need to recognise that climate change and loss of Nature are equally important, not just for the environment, but as development and economic issues as well,” Watson said. “But our goal is to make sure that governments and …

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