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From microbes to meerkats, the wealth of species on Earth is the glue that holds the cycles of life together: producing food, regulating climate, building soil, maintaining ecosystems and more. Tropical forests are some of the most diverse ecosystems on the planet, and scientists estimate that they have only described a small percentage of the […]

Financial giants ramp up pressure on negotiators at COP15 with call for clear mandate in treaty requiring finance sector to align activities with nature goals

Financial giants ramp up pressure at COP15 with call for clear mandate in treaty requiring finance sector to align activities with nature goals.

In the past 50 years, more than 85pc of wetlands have been lost.

A process is underway that seeks to offer best practices for the transparency of environmental impacts.

After last week’s clear challenge to the SUR pesticide reform, this week the guns are blazing between MEPs and Commissioners pushing the reform. And in a familiar pattern in EU law-making, many Ministers are backing the business-as-usual block. Will we be reporting on the SUR until there are no more puns to be made? It seems that's just what many politicians, with thier persistent pesticide proposals, want to enSURe. Ashley Parsons and Oliver Moore report. After last week’s clear challe...

A failure to consider the human dimensions of biodiversity conservation could undermine progress at the upcoming UN biodiversity negotiations (CBD COP15). Processes set up to recognise the voices and rights of Indigenous People and local communities must be gender sensitive, so women and girls are not left behind

African researchers are marshalling their arguments for COP27 to assert that what Africa can do to tackle climate change must be informed by its specific conditions, for which solutions tailored for Europe, Asia or America will not work. Their research will bolster the continent’s climate chang...

The threats resulting from climate warming and loss of nature are no longer theoretical, but a brutal reality.