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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

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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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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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