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- Written by: Daniel Merino and Nehal El-Hadi
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Whether you are looking at tropical forests in Brazil, grasslands in California or coral reefs in Australia, it is hard to find places where humanity hasn’t left a mark. The scale of the alteration, invasion or destruction of natural ecosystems can be mindbogglingly huge.
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- Written by: Alexandra Zimmermann
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The 196 countries meeting for the UN Convention on Biological Diversity conference (COP15) in Montreal, Canada, have set themselves a formidable challenge: ensuring humanity is “living in harmony with nature” by 2050.
Read more: UN Biodiversity Conference: What Does Living in Harmony with Nature Look like?
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- Written by: Chris D Thomas et al
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Here’s the basic problem for conservation at a global level: food production, biodiversity and carbon storage in ecosystems are competing for the same land.
Read more: New Food Technologies Could Release 80% of the World’s Farmland Back to Nature
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- Written by: Jude Currivan, Ph.D
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One of our most venerable of wisdom traditions, the Chinese I Ching, tells that: ‘in the beginning was the one, the one became two, the two became three – and from the three, ten thousand things were born…’.
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- Written by: Jennie L. Durant
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The extreme weather that has battered much of the U.S. in 2022 doesn’t just affect humans. Heat waves, wildfires, droughts and storms also threaten many wild species – including some that already face other stresses.
Read more: Bees Face Many Challenges And Climate Change Is Ratcheting Up The Pressure