A few years—or sometimes even just a few weeks—can be all it takes for a plant or animal to acquire "endangered species" status. For instance, when a new road is built through a forest, the chainsaws come out and a rare ...
Ecology
Jan 12, 2023
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A major biodiversity conference, recently concluded in Montreal, Canada, was billed as the event that will decide the "fate of the entire living world." All well then that the meeting closed with what has been hailed as a ...
Ecology
Dec 22, 2022
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Climate change is one of the main drivers of species loss globally. We know more plants and animals will die as heatwaves, bushfires, droughts and other natural disasters worsen.
Ecology
Dec 19, 2022
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Negotiators at a United Nations biodiversity conference Saturday have still not resolved most of the key issues around protecting the world's nature by 2030 and providing tens of billions of dollars to developing countries ...
Environment
Dec 17, 2022
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Governments should embrace the realities of shifting biodiversity rather than "investing in futile efforts to return the natural world to its historic state," a new study argues.
Ecology
Nov 29, 2022
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A venomous snake normally found only in the eastern states has been detected in South Australia for the first time, near the border with NSW and Victoria.
Plants & Animals
Oct 10, 2022
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Heat waves linked to climate change have already led to mass deaths of birds and other wildlife around the world. To stem the loss of biodiversity as the climate warms, we need to better understand how birds respond.
Plants & Animals
Sep 29, 2022
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The countless benefits of native forests include the capacity of tree biomass to store large amounts of carbon, which can counterbalance greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere. A paper published in the journal Science ...
Environment
Sep 13, 2022
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Hydropower developments should avoid flooding forests to minimize biodiversity loss and disruptions to ecosystems in Amazonian forest islands, new research from the University of East Anglia (UEA) finds.
Ecology
Aug 26, 2022
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You would have heard Australia's environment isn't doing well. A grim story of "crisis and decline" was how Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek described the situation when she launched the State of the Environment Report ...
Ecology
Jul 29, 2022
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