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Experts call for solutions to be enforced immediately to halt global population collapses
The “fates of humans and insects are intertwined”, scientists have said, with the huge declines reported in some places only the “tip of the iceberg”.
The warning has been issued by 25 experts from around (...)
Scientist Brad Lister returned to Puerto Rican rainforest after 35 years to find 98% of ground insects had vanished.
“We knew that something was amiss in the first couple days,” said Brad Lister. “We were driving into the forest and at the same time both Andres and I said: ‘Where are all the (...)
The number of vertebrates (mammals, birds, fish and reptiles) declined by more than 60 percent between 1970 and 2014, according to a report released by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and the Zoological Society of London.
Complex multi-cellular life has existed for around 500 million years. (...)
In a new study showing that the timing of species’ natural events is failing to synchronize, “everything is consistent with the fact it’s getting warmer”.
The warming of the Earth over the past several decades is throwing Mother Nature’s food chain out of whack and leaving many species struggling (...)
Birds are not just diverse, vivid and extraordinary. They can also save our souls – let’s protect them.
For most of my life, I didn’t pay attention to birds. Only in my 40s did I become a person whose heart lifts whenever he hears a grosbeak singing or a towhee calling, and who hurries out to see (...)
Dozens of species have seen their numbers decline, in some cases by two-thirds, because insects they feed on have disappeared.
Bird populations across the French countryside have fallen by a third over the last decade and a half, researchers have said.
Dozens of species have seen their (...)
Authors of report on bird declines say intensive farming and pesticides could turn Europe’s farmland into a desert that ultimately imperils all humans
The “catastrophic” decline in French farmland birds signals a wider biodiversity crisis in Europe which ultimately imperils all humans, leading (...)
Three-quarters of flying insects in nature reserves across Germany have vanished in 25 years, with serious implications for all life on Earth, scientists say.
The abundance of flying insects has plunged by three-quarters over the past 25 years, according to a new study that has shocked (...)
The Head of Conservation for BirdLife Europe & Central Asia explains how intensive agriculture has made farmland birds one of the most threatened bird groups in Europe.
Once upon a time, they were all around us – sights and sounds as familiar as the dusky skies their flocks danced in or the (...)
A new understanding of subspecies, such as Reichenow’s Helmeted Guineafowl, can help conserve the birds. William Warby/Flickr
Earth is home to an estimated 1 trillion species . To date, only about 1.2 million have been identified and described scientifically . There’s good reason to increase (...)
Living Planet Index shows vertebrate populations are set to decline by 67% on 1970 levels unless urgent action is taken to reduce humanity’s impact.
The number of wild animals living on Earth is set to fall by two-thirds by 2020, according to a new report , part of a mass extinction that is (...)
Natural capital is a dangerous illusion that masks the way capitalist growth undermines conservation itself..
An increasingly popular line of argument is that, by turning nature into capital, it is possible to reconcile a capitalist growth economy with conservation . In this way, proponents (...)
Experts warn there may be no unspoilt places left within a century as report shows an area twice the size of Alaska has been lost since 1993.
Humans have destroyed a tenth of Earth’s remaining wilderness in the last 25 years and there may be none left within a century if trends continue, (...)
US weather agency says bleaching is now the most widespread on record and is likely to continue for unprecedented third year
The coral bleaching event sweeping the globe and destroying vast tracts of valuable coral reef is now officially the most widespread in recorded history, and is likely (...)
WASHINGTON — All the world’s seas are bedeviled by global warming, pollution and overfishing, but the Mediterranean and the 20-plus nations that ring it face another threat: A rising flood of invasive marine species flowing through the Suez Canal.
On Aug. 6, 2015, over the objections of (...)
Scientists have been warning for decades that human actions are pushing life on our shared planet toward mass extinction. Such extinction events have occurred five times in the past, but a bold new paper finds that this time would be fundamentally different. Fortunately, there’s still time to (...)
Study reveals rate of extinction for species in the 20th century has been up to 100 times higher than would have been normal without human impact.
The modern world is experiencing a “sixth great extinction” of animal species even when the lowest estimates of extinction rates are considered, (...)
This contribution is an expanded version of a workshop presentation in the ecology stream at the Historical Materialism conference in London in November 2014. In this presentation I want to advance four propositions that may be controversial:
• That biodiversity is the planet’s most valuable (...)
ON Friday we humans observed V-E Day, the end to one part of a global catastrophe that cost the planet at least 60 million lives. But if we were fish, we would have marked the day differently — as the beginning of a campaign of violence against our taxonomic classes, one that has resulted in (...)
Marine defaunation: Animal loss in the global ocean
REVIEW
Douglas J. McCauley,*, Malin L. Pinsky, Stephen R. Palumbi, James A. Estes, Francis H. Joyce, Robert R. Warner
For Author Affiliations see the original
SUMMARY
BACKGROUND
Comparing patterns of terrestrial and marine defaunation (...)
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