July 16, 2019
Stories tagged "biodiversity"
June 24, 2019
How to Save Local Wildlife this Pool Season
By Madison Pravecek We are well past Memorial Day which means one thing for those of us in the Northern Hemisphere: pool season! While you may be really excited to use your personal or community pool, for many small animals pools can be quite treacherous. When frogs,...June 12, 2019
Plant Extinction is Happening 500x Faster Than Before the Industrial Revolution
While we cover animal species extinctions a lot in ODP, but plants are also struggling to survive in a world that’s rapidly being altered by climate change. According to a new study published in the journal Nature Ecology and Evolution, 600 plant extinctions...May 30, 2019
Shrinking Protected Areas Causing Biodiversity Concerns to Rise
A new report from Conservation International published today in Science documents that governments have removed more than 500,000 square kilometers from protected areas and downgraded the protection for an additional 1.65 million square kilometers, the majority of...May 9, 2019
Tweet of the Week: Eric Holthaus on the courage to take action
We need to move past the “we’re screwed” narrative on climate change and ecosystem collapse. Fast. A dead world is not our destiny. Yes, the odds are against us as long as we stay on our current path. But we can and must radically change that path. We can do this, and...May 8, 2019
Mainstream reactions to UN biodiversity report
After a major United Nations scientific report on biodiversity was released on Monday, the hope was that its release could spark a “Paris moment” and bring a coordinated global effort to tacking the extinction of species much like the Paris Climate...May 5, 2019
New Report Hopes to Spark “Paris Moment” for Biodiversity
A major United Nations scientific report on biodiversity will be released later today, after a week of negotiations on the final text written by 400 leading scientists from 130 nations assessing the state of Nature — and its impact on humanity — across the...February 1, 2019
A Call for 30% Protection by 2030 Is Uniting Green Groups
There is a call for another “new deal” growing globally — this one a New Deal for Nature — and twelve of the largest international environmental groups are united behind it. They launched their campaign yesterday, with a powerful message...January 24, 2019
Salty runoff creating “chemical cocktails” in drinking water
Last Week we wrote about the detriment that road salt can have on waterways, plants, and animals and how runoff is causing dead zones in lakes. It turns out that the story doesn’t stop there and all that salt is actually reacting with soil and water pipes to...April 20, 2018