Biodiversity and Climate Change

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Climate crisis | The Guardian
View In: Biodiversity and Climate ChangeNature is under threat as never before, but what does that actually mean? We explain what is at stake – and why action at Cop15 is more crucial than everDespite humanity’s many technological advances, we can only manage a well-informed guess at the true extent of life on Earth: 8.7 million species, accordin...

Climate crisis | The Guardian
View In: Biodiversity and Climate ChangeA million animal and plant species are perilously close to extinction. Their fate and ours are intimately connectedIn an essay entitled The Sense of Wonder, the American conservationist Rachel Carson suggested two questions to make us think more deeply about our natural environment. “What if I had neve...

Counter Punch
View In: Biodiversity and Climate ChangeWhat is it about a bunch of high-ranking people getting together at a Conference of the Parties (COP) at some major metropolitan center with plenty of 4-star and 5-star hotels in order to figure out how to save the planet, but it never works! More The post Montreal Biodiversity COP15 December 2022 appeare...

Alternet.org
View In: Biodiversity and Climate ChangeA survey published this week analyzing bug splat on U.K. motorists' license plates found that the nation's flying insect population has declined by nearly 60% over the past 17 years, indicating a “terrifying” loss of biodiversity among the planet's most numerous class of species.“There is a growing amoun...

Inside Climate News
View In: Biodiversity and Climate ChangeIf greenhouse gas pollution remains unchecked, global warming could trigger the most catastrophic extinction of ocean species since the end of the Permian age, about 250 million years ago, scientists warned in a new study today. During the end-Permian Extinction, researchers estimate up to 90 percen...