Halting global biodiversity loss is central to the Convention on Biological Diversity and United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, but success to date has been very limited. A critical determinant of success in achieving these goals is the financing that is committed to maintaining biodiversity; ...
We propose that habitat destruction and biodiversity loss associated with biotic homogenization can increase the incidence and distribution of infectious diseases affecting humans. The clearest connection between biotic homogenization and infectious disease is the spread of nonindigenous vectors and pathogens. ...
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This is a great opportunity for China to collaborate with the UN Statistics Commission to accelerate rollout of such auditing to the whole world to improve understanding and management of our valuable ecosystems and biodiversity. 2.2.2.5 Essential Life Support Areas An initiative supported by National ...
NAIROBI, June 21 (Xinhua) -- The international community is inching closer to agreeing on a binding framework to reverse biodiversity loss, tame the climate crisis and promote sustainable development, senior UN officials said on Tuesday. Speaking at the fourth meeting of the open-ended working gro...
Data for national and subnational statistics of drained or converted areas, regional wetland percentage loss estimates, and gridded reconstruction of drained area per land use and cumulative—as well as natural wetland area—are available at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7293597. Code availabili...
d, Summary of global validation statistics for categories of time, season, region, elevation, observation time lag and total elevation change, with density distributions of measurements for ICESat (light grey) and IceBridge (dark grey). Mean elevation differences, subject to snow-cover biases, are...
ThinkOrSwim is a blog focusing on the inter-related crises involving climate change, sustainability, resource depletion, energy and biodiversity loss. Email ***@mac.com Twitter Followers 42.7K Frequency 7 posts/year Since Nov 2007 Domain Authority 29 Read Now Get Email Contact 33. Climate Cha...
The Anthropocene is characterized by unparalleled human impact on other species, potentially ushering in the sixth mass extinction. Yet mitigation efforts remain hampered by limited information on the spatial patterns and intensity of the threats driving global biodiversity loss. Here we use expert-deriv...
Quantifying the dynamics of land use change is critical in tackling global societal challenges such as food security, climate change, and biodiversity loss. Here we analyse the dynamics of global land use change at an unprecedented spatial resolution by