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Brazil has an abundance of wildlife, including many mammal species found nowhere else on Earth. Most of Brazil’s 701 native mammal species provide services that benefit people, such as helping forests grow, fertilizing fisheries, curbing sickness, and supporting pollination. However, according to a new study in Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation, more than half of […]
Anyone who follows the tragedy of climate change in (relative) slow motion knows that, as in the real-time tragedy of Covid-19, there is a perverse te
PARIS, FRANCE -- Unless nations dramatically improve on carbon cutting pledges made under the 2015 Paris climate treaty, the planet's richest concentrations of animal and plant life will be irreversibly ravaged by global warming, scientists warned Friday. An analysis of 8,000 published risk assessments for species showed a high danger for extinction in nearly 300 biodiversity "hotspots", on land and in the sea, if temperatures rise three degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels, they reported in the journal Biological Conservation. Earth's surface has heated up 1 C so far, and the Pa...
Last modified on Fri 9 Apr 2021 04.20 EDT Unique island species including lemurs and the Galapagos giant tortoise could be at high risk of extinction if the planet warms by more than 3C above pre-industrial levels, new research warns. Analysis of 270 biodiversity hotspots suggests almost half of endemic marine species and 84% of endemic mountain species will face extinction if the planet warms by more than 3C, which if current trends continue could happen in 2100. However, keeping the global temperature rise to 1.5C – the target limit set by the Paris Agreement – would reduce the risk of ...
Biodiversity ‘hot spots’ devastated in warming world 120 PARIS, April 9, 2021 (BSS/AFP) – Unless nations dramatically improve on carbon cutting pledges made under the 2015 Paris climate treaty, the planet’s richest concentrations of animal and plant life will be irreversibly ravaged by global warming, scientists warned Friday. An analysis of 8,000 published risk assessments for species showed a high danger for extinction in nearly 300 biodiversity “hot spots”, on land and in the sea, if temperatures rise three degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels, they reported in the journa...