By Ruth Kamnitzer Five years ago, the COVID-19 pandemic served as a wake-up call. Since then, health experts worldwide have ...

Conservation shifts harmful land use elsewhere, worsening biodiversity loss in more vulnerable regions globally.

Biodiversity loss has accelerated at an alarming rate in recent decades, driven largely by human activities such as clearing forests to grow crops or harvest timber.  While countries often degrade ...

Food systems are presently the biggest driver of environmental degradation and biodiversity loss. They cause 80% of deforestation and the degradation of many other precious habitats such as wetlands ...

A new global report highlighting the urgent action required to prevent further loss of ... Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) focuses on the underlying causes of the world's ...

The World Economic Forum estimates that “half of global GDP—$44 trillion—is dependent on nature to some extent,” and predicts that biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse could cause a ...

Such biodiversity “leakage” is a major problem with conservation and rewilding projects, particularly schemes in higher-income, industrialised countries that tend to have lower biodiversity ...

In doing so, it has resulted in significant biodiversity loss. The pursuit of global food productivity has also led to the homogenization of landscapes, replacing once-complex food webs with ...

The large scale deforestation, reckless cutting of hills, illegal mining, poor management of waste, falling groundwater table ...

Attend to get informed about the Biodiversity COP 16. What can we expect to come out of it? How are activists influencing decision makers around the world to protect the web of life that's keeping us ...

Instead, it requires understanding of how these factors interact with climate and other environmental changes to drive overall biodiversity loss ... can address the root causes of biodiversity ...