Tuesday, May 07, 2019

Humanity Faces a Biodiversity Crisis. Climate Change Makes It Worse.

People are destroying the world’s natural wealth so fast that society must change radically to meet development goals, the UN says in a landmark scientific report.
On Indonesia's Borneo Island, vast tracts of species-rich forests have been cleared for production of palm oil. A new UN report warns of a devastating loss to biodiversity as global warming, deforestation, unsustainable food production and other threats continue. (Credit: BAY ISMOYO/AFP/Getty Images) Click to Enlarge.
Saving natural systems, the biodiversity report said, "requires urgent and concerted efforts fostering transformative change."

 Read more at Humanity Faces a Biodiversity Crisis. Climate Change Makes It Worse.
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