Environmental pressures are mounting globally. Air and water pollution claim millions of lives annually, biodiversity loss is ...

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On May 22, the world celebrated the International Day for Biological Diversity, at a time when the disappearance of species is at the highest rate in human history.

Harvard’s 2025 commencement speaker, “Luanna” Yurong Jiang, worked for a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) entity with extensive ...

The outcomes range significantly depending on the specifics of any given piece of land, its original level of biodiversity and how it was used prior to the PV system being installed. While some ...

Companies facing high levels of biodiversity risk could have a material effect on long-term portfolio performance. Specifically, we looked at land use and biodiversity risk. Biodiversity loss can ...

Essentially, all it means is having a variety of living things. There are three main levels of biodiversity scientists typically refer to, according to the Smithsonian, including species ...

Figure 6 High-level influence diagram of the social, technological, and ecological components (blue squircle) of urban resilience (orange squircle) and how they are influenced by both human well-being ...

An area with an MSA of 0% will have completely lost its original biodiversity (or will be exclusively colonised by invasive species) whereas an MSA of 100% reflects a level of biodiversity, equal to ...

The views expressed are those of the authors, not necessarily Mongabay. This level of biodiversity loss is both tragic and dangerous for the future of our planet, since biodiverse ecosystems ...