As plant/animal diversity wanes, is microbial life changing too? A perilously ‘profound ignorance’
The Rockefeller University Unknown direction and pace of change in microbial — including viral — biodiversity may have deep consequences […]
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UNEP synthesis of scientific assessments provides blueprint to secure humanity’s future
UN Environment Programme, Nairobi Meeting ramped-up climate and biodiversity targets, cutting deadly pollution and achieving SDGs needs an all-society push
Study proves bits of DNA in seawater correlate to the weight of netted fish
The Rockefeller University, NY / Monmouth University, NJ New tool will help census oceans, monitor fish, track shifting marine life;
Escaping the ‘Era of Pandemics’: experts warn worse crises to come; offer options to reduce risk
IPBES, Bonn (Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services) Highlights: Intergovernmental council on pandemic prevention; risk drivers include deforestation,
Nature: Humanity at a crossroads, UN warns in new Global Biodiversity Outlook report
UN Convention on Biodiversity, Montreal Global Biodiversity Outlook 5 report outlines 8 major transitions needed to slow, then halt nature’s
DNA surprises surfacing in the Atlantic: Species far from their usual southern homes
The Rockefeller University Programme for the Human Environment, New York DNA scientists sampling the New Jersey shore bottle the changing ranges of
Humanity’s greatest risk: Cascading impacts of climate, biodiversity, food, water crises: scientists
Future Earth, Stockholm, Sweden Survey reveals common concern of global scientists: interlinkages between crises; Part of Our Future on Earth,
Scientists quantify global volcanic CO2 venting; estimate total carbon on Earth
Deep Carbon Observatory, Carnegie Institution, Washington DC Scientists update estimates of Earth’s immense interior carbon reservoirs, and how much carbon
Earth Commission to identify risks, guardrails, targets for the entire planet
Future Earth, Stockholm, Sweden First holistic attempt to identify scientific risks, guardrails — akin to a 2C rise for climate —
Nature’s dangerous decline ‘unprecedented,’ species extinction rates ‘accelerating’
IPBES, Bonn (Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services) Current global response insufficient; ‘transformative changes’ needed to restore and protect
Found Nemo, Dory with DNA in the seas; Experts prescribe way ahead for new ocean science
The Rockefeller University, Program for the Human Environment, New York Organizers of 1st National Conference on Marine Environmental DNA call for
UN warns of rising levels of toxic brine as desalination plants meet growing water needs
UNU-INWEH, Hamilton Canada World’s ~16,000 desalination plants discharge 142 million cubic meters of brine daily — 50 percent more than
Life in deep Earth totals 15 to 23 billion tonnes of carbon — hundreds of times more than humans
Deep Carbon Observatory Washington DC Deep Carbon Observatory collaborators, exploring the ‘Galapagos of the deep,’ add to what’s known, unknown,
Marine species quickly revealed by new ‘Go Fish’ tool, highlights potential of emerging eDNA science
Rockefeller University, New York, Program for the Human Environment Experts convene for 1st US National Conference on Marine Environmental DNA,
DNA reveals evolution’s secrets; humans, like most species, show tiny genetic difference
Rockefeller University, New York Far from special: Humanity’s tiny DNA differences are ‘average’ in animal kingdom Paper offers new insights
Global forests expanding: Reflects wellbeing, not rising CO2, experts say
University of Helsinki, Finland Study finds virtually no correlation between higher levels of atmospheric CO2 and nations’ forest expansion/decline; difference
Worsening worldwide land degradation now ‘critical,’ undermining well-being of 3.2 billion people
IPBES, Bonn 26 March, 2018 Main cause of species loss; driver of the migration of millions of people by 2050
IPBES: Biodiversity and nature’s contributions continue dangerous decline, scientists warn
IPBES, Bonn 23 March 2018 Human well-being at risk; Landmark reports highlight options to protect and restore nature and its vital
Ontario town’s 10-year, $2.7 million effort to save endangered turtles offers global lessons, template
Long Point Causeway Improvement Project, Long Point, Canada 89 percent fewer turtles venture onto Lake Erie’s Long Point Causeway A newly
Scientists track fish migration using DNA in water samples
Rockefeller University, Program for the Human Environment, NY Naked DNA in water tells if fish have arrived Scientists demonstrate harmless,
Exploring vast ‘submerged America,’ marine scientists discover 500 bubbling methane vents
Nat’l Ocean Exploration Forum – New York 19 Oct 2016 Five hundred vents newly discovered off the US West Coast, each
Galapagos: Wind turbines replace millions of liters of diesel since 2007, meet 30% of energy needs
Global Sustainable Electricity Partnership, Montreal World’s top utilities hand over project keys, chart path for Ecuador’s famously biodiverse archipelago to