Sentences with phrase «loss of biodiversity»

Also, the researchers plea for more effort to prevent land degradation and loss of biodiversity from happening.

We can address most of the causes of loss of biodiversity only through prosperity and modern mitigation practices.

That may also result in significant loss of biodiversity, possibly including important food species.

«These estimates reveal an exceptionally rapid loss of biodiversity over the last few centuries, indicating that a sixth mass extinction is already under way,» the researchers wrote in the study.

As climate change has become a more prominent public concern, some scientists have worried that it might distract attention from related environmental problems, such as the global loss of biodiversity.

Understanding these patterns will help us to prepare for, and hopefully prevent, climate - related loss of biodiversity.

It's not a real loss of biodiversity — but in our minds, it is.

The primary drivers of loss of biodiversity on land are well recognized to be habitat conversion / destruction, invasive species and now climate change.

I can not believe that any human being would not be concerned at the tragic loss of biodiversity the would result from rapid climate change.

For many land - use sectors, the mitigation hierarchy is an effective way to manage the possible loss of biodiversity that comes with development.

This is an observation that spans all aspects of global depletion related to food choice, including the topic of loss of biodiversity and extinction of species.

The staggering loss of biodiversity in recent decades prompted researchers in 2015 to argue that the Anthropocene marks the third stage in the evolution of Earth's biosphere, following on from the microbial stage 3.5 billion years ago and the Cambrian explosion 650 million years ago.

I really hope M. Night Shyamalan doesn't sh*t the bed with this movie like he did with his last 3 or 4 because this movie could be the kind of pop culture flashpoint that draws attention not only to climate change, but the other scary, hyperspeed transitions going on in the biosphere right now, such as loss of biodiversity, mass migrations of invasive species, and the generally more toxic environment around us.

Deforestation in these areas has severe consequences for loss of biodiversity.

«Warming greater than 2 degrees Celsius above 19th - century levels is projected to be disruptive, reducing global agricultural productivity, causing widespread loss of biodiversity and — if sustained over centuries — melting much of the Greenland ice sheet with ensuing rise in sea levels of several meters,» the AGU declares in its first statement in four years on «Human Impacts on Climate.»

«Species are going to have to move in response to climate change, and we can act to both facilitate movement and create an environment that will prevent loss of biodiversity without a lot of pain to ourselves,» said Jenny McGuire, a research scientist in the School of Biology at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

For the last three years, around 550 researchers, including experts from the Planbureau voor de Leefomgeving (Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency), Leiden University and the University of Twente, have been working on providing insight into the effects of land degradation and the corresponding loss of biodiversity.

10 Ecosystem collapse Images of slaughtered elephants and burning rain forests capture people's attention, but the big problem — the overall loss of biodiversity — is a lot less visible and a lot more serious.

Nevertheless, even the most ardent supporter of rewilding should admit that it is human beings who bear direct moral responsibility for the ongoing loss of biodiversity in our world.

With the world on the verge of another food crisis (corn, wheat, and soybean prices are soaring again), extreme weather patterns becoming more pronounced, carbon emissions on the rise, loss of biodiversity accelerating, we desperately need some «win - win» strategies in our quest to make the world more sustainable.

We can no longer afford the massive loss of biodiversity and reduction in carbon sinks when ecosystems are converted into cropland.

They argue that these actions, combined with effective education programs that give citizens the knowledge and resources to deal with exotic plants, animals, and other species in their regions, will prevent the further loss of biodiversity caused by invasive species.

«Many of these other durian species are in this part of the world, and sadly some are endangered due to the increasing loss of biodiversity,» said co-lead author Dr. Teh Bin Tean, deputy director of the National Cancer Centre Singapore, in the press release.

Sachs made his remarks yesterday at a symposium hosted by the institute on how to improve agriculture to address the mounting challenge of feeding the world while combating climate change and stopping the wholesale loss of biodiversity, among other interrelated issues.

The result is a severe loss of biodiversity.

Rapid loss of biodiversity in recent times indicates that a sixth mass extinction event is underway on the Earth, whereby the average rate of vertebrate species loss is now up to 1000 times higher than background rates [1].

Worldwide, Bd has been implicated in the decline or extinction of at least 200 amphibian species, and some biologists peg it as the driving force behind the largest disease - caused loss of biodiversity ever recorded.

Synopsis Does loss of biodiversity generally increase or decrease disease agent transmission?

Human progress (and the resulting climate change, destruction of ecosystems, loss of biodiversity etc.) seems to be operating on its own momentum and our ability to exert influence on the outcome of the situation is debatable at best and only realistic in the long - term.

via LSU News More on the Importance of Biodiversity Agriculture Needs a Fundamental Rethink in the 21st Century More Bird Species Means Fewer West Nile Cases Loss of Biodiversity: Top 10 Signs of a Modern Mass Extinction Averting «Livestock Meltdown»: Biodiversity Key To Global Food Security Alternative Economy Needed for Biodiversity?

The world is facing an unprecedented loss of biodiversity and yet we continue to waste precious time,» Anne Bell of Ontario Nature said.

«These are sort of preliminary results that would suggest that there's going to be a big loss of biodiversity from climate change,» Wiens says.

Like Miller, Burdick and Raymundo, Rumney warned of the extreme loss of biodiversity that comes with the disappearance of reefs.

Slowing deforestation yields direct benefits such as slowing soil erosion, the destruction of natural habitats, and reducing loss of biodiversity.

Kerry ten Kate directs Forest Trends» Biodiversity Initiative and is also the Director of the Business and Biodiversity Offsets Programme (BBOP): a consortium of over 70 companies, banks, government agencies and NGOs working for no net loss of biodiversity in the context of development projects.

While I agree that corals have a capacity to adapt to warming waters, it is my firm view that the rate of adaption will be too slow to prevent major loss of biodiversity at current levels and trends in -LSB-...]

The Guardian reports, «The dramatic decline in butterfly numbers indicates a wider loss of biodiversity, with other insects such as bumblebees, hoverflies, spiders and moths, as well as many plants and birds, disappearing along with the loss of traditional grassland.»

[82] Future warming is projected to have a range of impacts, including sea level rise, [83] increased frequencies and severities of some extreme weather events, [83] loss of biodiversity, [84] and regional changes in agricultural productivity.

In a research paper on biodiversity released today for Copenhagen Consensus 2012, Salman Hussain and Anil Markandya find that there will be a significant loss of biodiversity over the next 40 years.

Loss of biodiversity from species extinctions will have a major impact on the planet and could effect the planet as much as climate change or pollution do, according to a new study.

Industrial Agriculture's Negative Effects The report didn't go into wider - ranging effects of the industrial agriculture dominant in the US, such as loss of biodiversity, fertilizer run - off, etc. (and whether industrial agriculture is really the best method of raising food, the UN doesn't think so, and I suppose that's all a bit beyond the research brief here) but at least corn ethanol fares a bit better in this study than in previous estimates.