Tag: biodiversity
Climate change is depleting plant nutrition, threatening herbivores from grasshoppers to...
Rising CO2 levels are driving faster plant growth but reducing nutrient density, with alarming impacts across ecosystems.gian
European energy giants conceal nearly half of their biodiversity damage
New research reveals how major energy companies in Europe are hiding the ecological destruction caused by their operations, with nearly 50 percent of adverse impacts going unreported in official sustainability documents.
Turning the tide: How global conservation efforts are curbing biodiversity loss
A decade-long scientific study reveals significant success in conservation actions worldwide, offering hope amidst the biodiversity crisis.
Republicans spearhead Congress’s assault on endangered species with 2024 bill riders
Endangered wildlife faces a new threat as Congress's 2024 bill riders, largely driven by Republicans, push species closer to extinction.
Amazon’s alarm: The rainforest’s role in pandemic outbreaks and planetary health
Amazon at the crossroads: deforestation and climate change fuel disease risks.
Wildfires aren’t just a threat to people—they’re killing off Earth’s biodiversity
Cataclysmic wildfires have increased in intensity and frequency due to climate change.
Environmental leaders from 185 countries launch biodiversity protection fund
“As we confront the critical challenge of halting and reversing biodiversity loss around the world, working together has never been more important."
Agreement made to increase protection of biodiversity at COP15
Are governments "finally starting to forge a peace pact with nature?”
Meet the industry lobbyists fighting efforts to solve the biodiversity crisis
"This research sheds new light on an area of lobbying that has largely been able to slip under the radar and should act as a wake-up call to policymakers ahead of the U.N.'s upcoming biodiversity conference," said InfluenceMap's program manager.
Global forest area declined by 60% since 1960, study finds
More monitoring, preservation, and reforestation globally is necessary to maintain forested land and prevent major biodiversity loss.
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Musk reinstates DOGE staffer who resigned over racist posts after Trump administration defends him
Musk and Trump officials dismiss racist posts as trivial while attacking journalists who exposed them.
America’s nuclear gamble: The dangerous push to resume atmospheric testing
Experts warn of catastrophic fallout as calls grow to restart nuclear weapons tests abandoned since 1963.
Elon Musk’s team decimates Education Department arm that tracks national school performance
Schools and districts across the country rely on research from the IES and contractors such as the American Institutes for Research to guide best practices in classrooms.
22 Republican Attorneys General sue New York over climate change Superfund Act
Legal challenge seeks to block state’s effort to make fossil fuel companies pay for climate damages.
How a worker cooperative is mitigating the stray animal crisis in Texas
Houston’s Pet Care Co-op empowers humans and helps animals survive.