Biodiversity loss

Radical, wholesale change is needed right this second and cannot be delayed

2021 was a year where tropical forests featured more prominently in global headlines than normal thanks to rising recognition of the role they play in addressing climate change and biodiversity loss. The following is a brief look at some of the major rainforest storylines from 2021. Previous year-in-reviews: 2020 | The 2010s | 2019 | […]

Goal to “halt and reverse” biodiversity loss by 2030 – a headline aim of the COP15 biodiversity summit – could take 80 rather than eight years to achieve, say conservationists

Based on a 1990s study, there is a relationship between economic growth and biodiversity loss. Because of practices in “developing” economies, pollution is a necessary evil in order to become “developed”.

There are now only about 3,000 of California's southern sea otters left. A new study shows that, if they can be returned to San Francisco Bay, their population can be tripled. But, first, they’ll need some help getting past the great white sharks.

Pollution scenarios and anthropogenic warming are familiar examples of human-caused stress on the environment. But human-driven loss of biodiversity itself robs ecosystems of essential players and services, damaging ecosystem function. Ecoss research examined the effects of various environmental stressors on plant growth and decomposition, two crucial processes in any ecosystem. Measuring the rate of species …

The global biodiversity crisis is more apparent than ever before, with a new study revealing that 44% of the Earth requires conservation intervention to avoid irreversible levels of biodiversity loss. Read the full post here!

Although temperate forests are found in many latitudes between the polar circles and the tropics, the temperate rain forests are restricted to small areas where rainfall levels lay between 200 and 400 cm. Farming, mining, hunting, logging and urbanization are some of the human activities that have affected negatively this biome, resulting in biodiversity loss, pollution, deforestation and habitat loss and fragmentation. Home to many endangered and endemic species, temperate rainforests are…

A dire United Nations report, based on thousands of scientific studies, paints an urgent picture of biodiversity loss and finds that climate change is amplifying the danger to humanity.

Biodiversity is essential to the existence and proper functioning of all ecosystems.