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Phys.org on MSN.com · 4d

Satellite data and DNA reveal 50-year decline in Greek mountain tea diversity

Increased vegetation growth in European mountains, driven by climate and land-use changes, reduces the genetic diversity of medicinal plants, suggests a new study using satellite data and genetic analyses on Greek mountain tea.
Icon for www.colorado.eduCU Boulder News & Events · Nov 29, 2023

Global farm decline threatens biodiversity, food supply

His analysis showed the amount of farmland won’t decrease, but rather surviving farms will double in size, resulting in less biodiversity, crop diversity and, potentially, a smaller food supply.
Icon for www.msn.comMSN · 28d

The effects of biodiversity decline in Cyprus

research and share solutions to global environmental issues, explored the effects of Biodiversity Decline in Cyprus. What did they discover? How does it impact upon our future? Biodiversity ...
Icon for www.msn.comMSN · 13d

Ambitious changes to Canadian conservation law are needed to reverse the decline in biodiversity

Canada's biodiversity is in decline. Globally, climate change ... They contain no mechanisms for translating Canada's commitments under the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework into legal or programmatic action. Nothing on the horizon suggests ...
Manila Standard · 14d

Dangerous decline

METEOROLOGISTS and climatologists are agreed the Earth, with an estimated 8.21 billion people by this date, is facing an ecological crisis. This crisis is
Icon for www.sciencedaily.comScience Daily · Apr 3, 2025

Animal behavioral diversity at risk in the face of declining biodiversity

Drastic declines in biodiversity due to human activities present ... However, shrinking global animal populations pose a challenge to what we can still hope to learn." Adaptability to challenges ...
Climate Home News · 13d

System change is our only way out of the climate and biodiversity crises

To tackle the climate crisis, we must change the system—not just the symptoms. Here's why systemic change is our only way forward.
Icon for www.sciencedaily.comScience Daily · 27d

Declining insect biodiversity in the tropics

"Most studies of insect declines are from modified landscapes in Europe and North America," said Professor Louise Ashton, corresponding author of the review. "However, most insect biodiversity is ...
Mongabay News on MSN.com · 10d

Whales and dolphins at risk as report reveals ecological decline in Gulf of California

Lorayne Meltzer has lived along the Gulf of California for 30 years. As an ecologist and director of a binational field station, she’s supported many scientists in their research into this biodiverse region of northwestern Mexico.
Icon for www.iol.co.zaIndependent Online · 27d

New framework aims to assess global insect biodiversity changes

The Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework set an ambitious ... scale of actions will be required to reverse historical declines,” he explained. The initiative, part of the Global ...
Icon for mg.co.zaMail & Guardian · 18d

Experts say insect decline is real, but evidence remains fragmented and biased

“The Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework set an ambitious ... scale of actions will be required to reverse historical declines.” Hui is part of a team of scientists working on ...
Icon for biologicaldiversity.orgCenter for Biological Diversity · Nov 21, 2024

Analysis: Industrial Animal Ag Incompatible With Global Climate Agreements

The analysis looked at the Paris Agreement, the Sustainable Development Goals, the Methane Pledge and the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework. It found that across nearly every goal and target, industrial animal agriculture is incompatible with ...
Icon for en.mercopress.comMercoPress · Aug 26, 2023

Global fund for nature restoration and biodiversity conservation

The international community ratified a new global fund aimed at ramping up critical nature restoration and biodiversity conservation, at a gathering in Vancouver. Canada and Britain said they ...
Icon for www.manilatimes.netmanilatimes · 17d

Canadians Compete in 2025 City Nature Challenge to Track Global Biodiversity

"This is a massive international effort to track and showcase global biodiversity at a time when wildlife and people are remerging after a long winter,” said James Pagé, species at risk and biodiversity specialist for the Canadian Wildlife Federation (CWF).
The Star · 10d

The Heart of Borneo: Sabah and Sarawak’s vital role in global biodiversity and climate resilience

BORNEO, home to diverse flora and fauna species and the third largest island globally spanning approximately 74 million hectares, with Sabah and Sarawak representing about one third of its total area.
Icon for www.environmental-finance.comEnvironmental finance · Nov 10, 2022

Biodiversity Finance Reference Guide: May 2023 Full Report (English)

Recent updates to the guide also map indicative investment activities to the targets in the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (Global Biodiversity Framework). This guide benefited from inputs from the public and private sector, academia ...
Icon for www.thestar.com.myThe Star · 10d

Biodiversity is climate resilience: Malaysia’s path to a greener, stronger future

In the face of rising global temperatures, unpredictable weather patterns, and increasing ecological fragility, biodiversity’s role in bolstering climate resilience has never been more crucial.
Icon for phys.orgPhys.org · 13d

Ambitious changes to Canadian conservation law are needed to reverse the decline in biodiversity

Canada's biodiversity is in decline. Globally ... for translating Canada's commitments under the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework into legal or programmatic action.
Icon for www.thestar.comToronto Star · 18d

Canadians Compete in 2025 City Nature Challenge to Track Global Biodiversity

OTTAWA, Ontario, April 17, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Canadians coast to coast will compete against more than 700 cities in a record 70 countries in the 10th annual City Nature Challenge from April ...
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Opinion: Ambitious changes to Canadian conservation law are needed to reverse the decline in biodiversity

Canada’s biodiversity is in decline. Globally ... for translating Canada’s commitments under the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework into legal or programmatic action.
Icon for www.business-reporter.co.ukbusiness-reporter.co.uk · Oct 31, 2024

How finance can be part of the solution to the world’s biodiversity crisis

flood and disease control and regulation of air and water pollution – are in decline. Although the biodiversity crisis has often been overshadowed by climate change on the global stage, the tide is turning. In 2022, the Kunming-Montreal global ...
Icon for www.ubs.comUBS · Mar 17, 2024

Bloom or bust

In 2022, the world agreed a “Paris Agreement for nature”—the Global Biodiversity Framework—with the goal of reversing biodiversity loss by 2030. The first step to achieving the 2030 goal is effective measurement. Successfully reversing biodiversity ...
SciTechDaily · 6d

$66,000,000 Problem: Mysterious Parasite Devastates Global Fish Farms

Researchers in the Amazon have discovered new genetic mechanisms in fish parasites that could lead to vaccines, potentially safeguarding fish farming and biodiversity. Researchers in the Amazon are in
AGDAILY · 4d

When insects hit the windshield, science starts talking

Though many talk of anecdotal “windshield phenomenon” observations, ecologists caution against oversimplifying the global insect decline narrative.
Icon for www.smithsonianmag.comSmithsonian Magazine · Feb 28, 2014

Biodiversity Decline

Fifty years ago, the Amazon comprised 14 percent of the Earth's surface. Now, it covers just 6 percent. National Treasure: Revealing the Stunning 2.33-Carat Winston Red Diamond 8 Mind-Boggling ...
Icon for www.traffic.orgTraffic · Mar 27, 2023

social and behavioural change

Global Assessment identified direct overexploitation as the second most significant cause of biodiversity decline, threatening a million species with extinction. Human values and behaviours were recognised as at the root of all indirect drivers of threat ...
Icon for www.reuters.comReuters · Dec 23, 2022

The future of biodiversity

A U.N. conservation deal reached in December 2022 could start reversing the wilderness decline and help species to survive. The most diverse group of organisms on the planet are in trouble ...
Icon for www.jpost.comThe Jerusalem Post Blogs · 22d

Swiss study finds human activity causes 20% drop in global biodiversity

Human activities are causing a decline in global biodiversity, according to a synthesis study published in the journal Nature. Researchers compiled data from around 2,100 studies, comparing ...
Icon for www.un.orgwebtv.un.org · 4d

Search the United Nations

We all depend on pollinators and it is, therefore, crucial to monitor their decline and halt the loss of biodiversity ... and gaining global fame for its quality. But the production of Yemeni ...
Icon for www.eurekalert.orgEurekAlert! · 25d

Caspian Sea decline threatens endangered seals, coastal communities and industry

The researchers say policymakers and conservationists need to take a dynamic approach to biodiversity ... Sea level decline appears unavoidable, even with action to reduce global greenhouse ...
Icon for www.worldbank.orgWorld Bank · 28d

The World Bank Group at COP16 on Biodiversity

The World Bank Group is attending the Conference of the Parties (COP16) on Biodiversity in Cali, Colombia to support the unprecedented ambition enshrined in the goals of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (KMGBF). A decades-long leader on ...
SciTechDaily · 8d

The Great Insect Apocalypse: Why Are Bugs Vanishing?

A new paper highlights over 500 interconnected factors contributing to the global decline of insect populations. Insects are vanishing at a concerning pace across the globe, and scientists are striving to understand why.
Icon for www.smithsonianmag.comSmithsonian Magazine · Apr 25, 2017

Biodiversity Decline

Fifty years ago, the Amazon comprised 14 percent of the Earth's surface. Now, it covers just 6 percent. E.O. Wilson on Mapping Diversity of Life on Earth The National Museum of Natural History ...
Icon for www.eurekalert.orgEurekAlert! · 26d

European bird declines linked to range of climatic conditions experienced

Human-induced climate change has increasingly been identified as a major threat to global biodiversity. However ... recent population declines of many widespread species suggest other factors may be involved, with the breadth of climatic conditions ...
Icon for www.unesco.orgUNESCO · 26d

Western Pacific nations launch new push to protect ocean biodiversity

the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, and the Agreement on the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Marine Biological Diversity of Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction—commonly known as the BBNJ Agreement. The treaty is the first legally ...
Icon for wwf.panda.orgPanda · Oct 14, 2022

Call for ambitious global biodiversity framework on World Wetlands Day

If we are to accelerate climate action then we must reverse the decline of natural wetlands ... urge Contracting Parties to the Convention to consider a more ambitious global biodiversity framework and adopt measures like those outlined in the Emergency ...
Icon for www.wsj.comWall Street Journal · May 25, 2015

Risks of biodiversity loss pose a global threat

Biodiversity has a huge impact on business and industry. The United Nations estimates that annual global economic losses due to deforestation and land degradation alone, were between $2 trillion ...
Icon for www.the-scientist.comThe Scientist · May 6, 2019

Global Biodiversity Assessment Reports “Unprecedented” Declines

In a report by the United Nations–backed panel named the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, researchers report that 1 million species are threatened with extinction. Global biodiversity is declining at ...
Icon for www.nature.comNature · Dec 9, 2021

Causes and Consequences of Biodiversity Declines

I hypothesize that global ecosystem changes are currently destabilizing species interactions (Figure 5) and that this will lead to future declines in biodiversity, ecosystem functioning ...
Icon for wwf.panda.orgPanda · Feb 28, 2024

Biodiversity trends in tropical and temperate areas are starkly different.

The global tropical index shows a decline of around 61% between 1970 and 2008. The global temperate index shows an increase of around 31% over the same period (WWF/ZSL, 2012).
Icon for www.nature.comNature · Jul 5, 2015

Biodiversity 2010: the tip of the iceberg

The United Nations event focuses on plants and animals, but the majority of the biodiversity on this planet is unseen. Bacteria, archaea and viruses are the predominant forms of life on the planet ...