UN Environment Programme, Nairobi Meeting ramped-up climate and biodiversity targets, cutting deadly pollution and achieving SDGs needs an all-society push for sustainabilityShifting world views and
The Rockefeller University, NY / Monmouth University, NJ New tool will help census oceans, monitor fish, track shifting marine life; “eDNA makes the ocean a
IPBES, Bonn (Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services) Highlights: Intergovernmental council on pandemic prevention; risk drivers include deforestation, wildlife trade; tax high pandemic-risk
UN Convention on Biodiversity, Montreal 11-month-old Sumatran orangutans. (c) Joel Sartore/National Geographic Photo Ark, natgeophotoark.org Global Biodiversity Outlook 5 report outlines 8 major transitions needed
The Rockefeller University Programme for the Human Environment, New York DNA scientists sampling the New Jersey shore bottle the changing ranges of marine life predicted a decade ago;
Future Earth, Stockholm, Sweden Survey reveals common concern of global scientists: interlinkages between crises; Part of Our Future on Earth, 2020, a 50-page synthesis of
Deep Carbon Observatory, Carnegie Institution, Washington DC Scientists update estimates of Earth’s immense interior carbon reservoirs, and how much carbon Deep Earth naturally swallows and
Future Earth, Stockholm, Sweden First holistic attempt to identify scientific risks, guardrails — akin to a 2C rise for climate — to create targets for land,
IPBES, Bonn (Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services) Current global response insufficient; ‘transformative changes’ needed to restore and protect nature; opposition from vested interests
The Rockefeller University, Program for the Human Environment, New York Organizers of 1st National Conference on Marine Environmental DNA call for official US Government marine eDNA
UNU-INWEH, Hamilton Canada World’s ~16,000 desalination plants discharge 142 million cubic meters of brine daily — 50 percent more than previously estimated; Enough in a
Deep Carbon Observatory Washington DC Deep Carbon Observatory collaborators, exploring the ‘Galapagos of the deep,’ add to what’s known, unknown, and unknowable about Earth’s most
Rockefeller University, New York, Program for the Human Environment Experts convene for 1st US National Conference on Marine Environmental DNA, a far-reaching, potent complement to
Rockefeller University, New York Far from special: Humanity’s tiny DNA differences are ‘average’ in animal kingdom Paper offers new insights into evolution; as with humans,
University of Helsinki, Finland Study finds virtually no correlation between higher levels of atmospheric CO2 and nations’ forest expansion/decline; difference mirrors the UN Human Development
IPBES, Bonn 26 March, 2018 Main cause of species loss; driver of the migration of millions of people by 2050 In landmark 3-year assessment report,
IPBES, Bonn 23 March 2018 Human well-being at risk; Landmark reports highlight options to protect and restore nature and its vital contributions to people Biodiversity —
Long Point Causeway Improvement Project, Long Point, Canada 89 percent fewer turtles venture onto Lake Erie’s Long Point Causeway A newly completed project in a remote
Rockefeller University, Program for the Human Environment, NY Naked DNA in water tells if fish have arrived Scientists demonstrate harmless, economical new way to log
Nat’l Ocean Exploration Forum – New York 19 Oct 2016 Mysterious purple orb — likened to a disco ball — may prove to be a new-to-science
Global Sustainable Electricity Partnership, Montreal World’s top utilities hand over project keys, chart path for Ecuador’s famously biodiverse archipelago to meet 70 percent of fast-rising
IPBES, Bonn / Office of the Science Advisor to the Prime Minister of Malaysia 26 Feb 2016 Assessment Details Options for Safeguarding Pollinators Kuala Lumpur