The latest UN biodiversity summit opens in Colombia; here’s ... - UN News
3 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
5 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...
As UN conference nears, countries have made little progress ... - PBS
3 days ago · WATCH: Historic deal to protect ocean biodiversity reached at UN conference. The two-week meeting in Cali, Colombia, will also focus on efforts to raise hundreds of billions of dollars to protect ...
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.
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...
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...
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...
COP27: Protecting biodiversity is protecting the Paris Agreement - UN News
Nov 16, 2022 · For many years the climate crisis and the biodiversity crisis have been treated as separate issues, but the reality – as highlighted on Wednesday at COP27– is that there is no viable route to...