Global drought hotspots report catalogs severe suffering, economic damage in 2023-2025
UN Convention to Combat Desertification, Bonn Food, water, energy crises, human tragedies in 2023-2025 detailed in sweeping analysis Fuelled by […]
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Rangelands’ ‘silent demise’ threatens climate, food, wellbeing of billions
UN Convention to Combat Desertification, Bonn Bonn/Ulaanbaatar – Degradation of Earth’s extensive, often immense natural pastures and other rangelands due to
Sand and dust storm frequency increasing in many world regions: UN
United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification, Bonn Two billion tons of sand and dust, equal in weight to 350 Great
Invasive Alien Species: Major Global Threats to Nature, Economies, Food Security, Human Health
IPBES, Bonn, Germany Key role in 60% of global plant and animal extinctions; Annual costs now >$423 Billion – have
World “at a crossroads” in management of droughts, up 29% in a generation
United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), Bonn Humanity is “at a crossroads” when it comes to managing drought and
Chronic land degradation: UN report offers stark warnings, remedies
United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), Bonn The way land resources – soil, water and biodiversity – are currently
UN: 500 million live in 19 African nations deemed water insecure
United Nation University Institute for Water, Environment & Health 1st assessment of water security in Africa is based on 10
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50% more wildfires foreseen by 2100; Governments are not prepared: UN
UN Environment Programme Even the Arctic, previously all but immune, faces rising wildfire risk; Wildfires and climate change are “mutually
In the news, 2021: Our clients’ most noted science news releases of the year
Terry Collins & Assoc., Toronto Of the 18 science news releases produced in 2021, 16 were environment-themed: food waste, e-waste,
IPBES/IPCC: Tackling the biodiversity and climate crises together, and their combined social impacts
IPBES, Bonn (Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform On Biodiversity And Ecosystem Services) Unprecedented changes in climate and biodiversity, driven by human activities,