Biodiversity, the variety of life on Earth, is in crisis. From bees in Colorado to Hawaiian honeycreepers and Australian bushfires, climate change and human activity are pushing species to extinction ...

Instead, we need measures that urgently address the underlying causes of both climate change and biodiversity loss. Clearly, false solutions won’t be our way out of such a mess. At best, corporations ...

A new study into the effects of biodiversity loss and human activity on global pathogens has experts sounding the alarm. Neil Vora, senior director of One Health at Conservation International, told ...

“At its worst, we could see some conservation actions cause net global harm,” Balmford ... where deforestation and biodiversity loss accelerate to meet export demands.

But the relationship between the two is nuanced. “Current pop science thinking is, one thing drives another, so biodiversity loss always causes more disease,” says Cole Brookson, a Ph.D ...

The report examines five key crises—climate change, biodiversity loss, food insecurity ... incentives to invest in economic activities that cause direct damage to nature (approx $5.3 trillion ...

“Our separation and domination of nature and people, the concentration of wealth and power, and also the prioritization of very short-term, immediate and material benefits” are the underlying causes ...

The report argues that transformative change addresses the underlying causes of biodiversity loss, and should be underpinned by values of equity and justice to minimize tradeoffs and unintended ...

Earlier, agricultural exports were estimated to cause 20 to 30 percent of biodiversity loss in the tropics. Now, researchers from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and the ETH Zurich have ...

November 7 - The linear fossil-based economy of the industrial era has reached its limits. As the COP16 biodiversity conference has brought sharply into view, our planet is rapidly losing the ...

Credit: Matthias Kleespies/Goethe-Universität Frankfurt As far as the causes of global biodiversity loss are concerned, there are evidently perception gaps among students of environment-related ...

This leaves growers in the dark about what the major cause of food loss is and at what stage of farming the waste happens most. By shedding light on both these areas, the Global Farm Loss Tool ...