The latest UN biodiversity summit opens in Colombia; here’s ... - UN News
4 days ago · The UN biodiversity summit known as COP16 officially opened in Colombia on Monday, ... Manuel Rodríguez Becerra, told UN News that one of the main challenges is to ensure that countries make more significant progress on their action plans. “Only 20 per cent of countries have presented these national plans two years [after] COP15, where this ...
Biodiversity News -- ScienceDaily
2 days ago · Learn about the loss of biological diversity - biodiversity - in forests, rainforests, aquatic environments and open land. What are the biodiversity hotspots? Read about biodiversity...
Global loss of wildlife is ‘significantly more alarming’ than ...
May 22, 2023 · CNN — The global loss of wildlife is “significantly more alarming” than previously thought, according to a new study that found almost half the planet’s species are experiencing rapid population...
Biodiversity - Latest research and news | Nature
Oct 16, 2024 · Biodiversity is the variation in living forms and can be measured in ways that include the number of species, functional variety of species, evenness of species distribution or genetic diversity.
Biodiversity faces its make-or-break year, and research will
Jan 19, 2022 · Biodiversity is being lost at a rate not seen since the last mass extinction. But the United Nations decade-old plan to slow down and eventually stop the decline of species and ecosystems by 2020...
Animals Are Running Out of Places to Live - The New York Times
Dec 9, 2022 · Biodiversity, or all the variety of life on the planet — including plants, invertebrates and ocean species — is declining at rates unprecedented in human history, according to the leading...
Break free from pollution, climate chaos and ‘biodiversity ... - UN News
Jun 4, 2024 · Failure to curb runaway pollution, climate chaos and biodiversity destruction are clear for all to see. Healthy, fertile lands are transforming into deserts, thriving ecosystems into dead zones...
Conservation slowing biodiversity loss, scientists say - BBC
Apr 25, 2024 · Conservation actions are effective at reducing global biodiversity loss, according to a major study. International researchers spent 10 years looking at measures, from hatching Chinook salmon to...
Global Biodiversity Is in Crisis, but There Is Hope for Recovery
Sep 23, 2019 · The Earth is facing a dual crisis of rapid climate change and unprecedented biodiversity loss. A recent UN report on biodiversity estimates the global rate of species extinction is currently tens to hundreds of times higher than it …
COP15 ends with landmark biodiversity agreement - UNEP
Dec 20, 2022 · The United Nations Biodiversity Conference (COP15) ended in Montreal, Canada, on 19 December 2022 with a landmark agreement to guide global action on nature through to 2030. Representatives from 188 governments have been gathered in Montreal for the past two weeks for the important summit.