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A comprehensive multi-model study published in Science, led by the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) and the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU), reveals that global biodiversity decreased by 2% to 11% solely due to land-use changes in the 20th century.

On December 3, 2019, the Pacific island state of Vanuatu made an audacious proposal: Make ecocide—the destruction of nature—an international crime. “An

Labour’s shadow environment secretary has stated that the Party would deliver on the UK’s commitment to protect at least 30% of the land and sea by 2030, in the same week that investors published new benchmarking tools to assess corporate approaches to nature and biodiversity.

World Conservation Monitoring Centre

<p>Global biodiversity has declined between 2% and 11% during the 20th century due to land-use change alone, according to a large multi-model study published in <em>Science</em>. Projections show climate change could become the main driver of biodiversity decline by the mid-21st century. </p> <p>The analysis was led by the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) and the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) and is the largest mo...

Mt. Pleasant city commissioners are moving forward with a proposed ordinance to allow natural landscaping after a discussion Monday night about an added proposal that failed to get support. Commissioners didn’t agree with Mt. Pleasant Police Chief Paul Lauria’s proposed addition that would require residents to register and submit plans to the city that would […]

Planting millions of trees in natural grassland is largely ineffective in the battle against global warming because it adds little or no additional carbon storage.

Taking the pulse of the climate and environmental crises facing the planet, and what is being done about them.

The only hope for human civilization lies in a radical, abrupt, and probably violent transformation of that very civilization.

The California Fish and Game Commission on Thursday formally recognized the Mohave desert tortoise as endangered.