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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

Raw Story  

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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Humanity is on track to cause one million species to go extinct, according to UN report
2 years, 5 months ago

Humanity is on track to cause one million species to go extinct, according to UN report

Salon  

Even as American politicians uselessly quibble over whether climate change is real and how humanity should address it, the natural world does not need humanity to humansplain to them that the Earth is becoming uninhabitable. According to a recent report by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, a United Nations body, one million animal and plant species …

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The world is facing a trillion-dollar invasive species problem
3 years, 9 months ago

The world is facing a trillion-dollar invasive species problem

Live Mint  

Disease-carrying mosquitoes, crop-ravaging rodents, forest-eating insects and even the domestic cat are all "exotic" intruders whose cost to humanity and the environment is vast and growing, according to a sweeping study published Wednesday. Researchers in France estimate that invasive species have cost nearly $1.3 trillion dollars to the global economy since 1970, an average of $26.8 billion per year. But …

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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 …

Global Climate Change Report Ipbes
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 …

Global Climate Change Report Ipbes
The Rapid Decline Of The Natural World Is A Crisis Even Bigger Than Climate Change
5 years, 9 months ago

The Rapid Decline Of The Natural World Is A Crisis Even Bigger Than Climate Change

Huff Post  

Nature is in freefall and the planet’s support systems are so stretched that we face widespread species extinctions and mass human migration unless urgent action is taken. “Land degradation, biodiversity loss and climate change are three different faces of the same central challenge: the increasingly dangerous impact of our choices on the health of our natural environment.” Around the world, …

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