Sentences with phrase «new global biodiversity»
(+ Do you expect IPCC AR6 will have new global biodiversity figures?)»
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The new report will highlight untapped opportunities for both business and society, stemming from five risks: Resistance to Lifesaving Medicine, Accelerating Transport Emissions, Loss of Ocean Biodiversity, Global Food Crisis and A Generation Wasted.
«Global biodiversity catastrophes are not about death but about the pruning of evolutionary branches on the tree of life at a rate much higher than the sprouting of new shoots,» added co-author Ivo Duijnstee, an adjunct assistant professor of integrative biology.
However, in a new paper published in Proceedings of the National of Sciences USA (PNAS) scientists from the University of Helsinki, Faculty of Science, show that key environmental parameters, namely climate - related primary productivity, biodiversity, and pathogen stress have strong influence on the global pattern of population densities of ethnographically documented hunter - gatherers.
Economist and Scientific American columnist Jeffrey Sachs argues in the same issue of Science that a new global treaty addressing biodiversity is needed — one that is paired explicitly to poverty alleviation.
As climate change and biological invasions continue to impact global biodiversity, scientists at Colorado State University and the University of Colorado - Boulder have recently published work that suggests that the way organisms move to new areas, or range expansion, can be impacted directly by evolutionary changes.
The methods established in the new study can be used in future for applied purposes — for example for local protection measures, for environmental assessments by authorities, or to integrate the long - term effects of road building into scenarios of the World Bank regarding global biodiversity changes.
New research into the impact of climate change has found that warming oceans will cause profound changes in the global distribution of marine biodiversity.
«While urbanization has caused cities to lose large numbers of plants and animals, the good news is that cities still retain endemic native species, which opens the door for new policies on regional and global biodiversity conservation,» said lead author and NCEAS working group member Myla F. J. Aronson, a research scientist in the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersnew policies on regional and global biodiversity conservation,» said lead author and NCEAS working group member Myla F. J. Aronson, a research scientist in the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources at Rutgers, The State University of New JersNew Jersey.
Throughout the history of life, new groups of species have flourished at the expense of earlier ones and global biodiversity has varied dramatically over geologic time.
This collection of marine microbial genomic, the first in the world on a global scale, will provide new clues about a reservoir of biodiversity yet to explore, considering that it could imply the discovery of tens of millions of new genes in the coming years.
To help him spend the # 6 million made available for the new Darwin Initiative on global biodiversity over the next three years, Britain's environment secretary Michael Howard this week announced the formation of an advisory committee.
Marine protected areas (MPAs) are an increasingly popular strategy for protecting marine biodiversity, but a new global study demonstrates that widespread lack of personnel and funds are preventing MPAs from reaching their full potential.
A new study finds that major gains in global biodiversity can be achieved if an additional 5 % of land is set aside to protect key species.
«The establishment of new shark and ray sanctuaries such as this is exactly the reason we partnered with FIU to roll out the Global FinPrint surveys,» said James Deutsch, director of Biodiversity Conservation for Paul Allen.
The ROM is the largest field research institution in the country, and a world leader in research areas from biodiversity, palaeontology, and earth sciences to archaeology, ethnology and visual culture - originating new information towards a global understanding of historical and modern change in culture and environment.
In particular, the new «Planetary Boundaries» paper, forthcoming in Nature, makes the case that humanity has overshot the global carrying capacity in a variety of key areas, including GHGs [greenhouse gases], nitrogen, phosphorus, fresh water, land use, and biodiversity.
A new report from TEEB (The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity), conducted by Trucost, highlights the scale of the problem: unpriced natural capital (i.e. that which is not taken into account by the global market) was worth $ 7.3 trillion in 2009, equal to 13 percent of that year's global economic output.
Edward B. Barbier proposes creating a new Global Agreement on Biodiversity (GAB) modeled after the 2015 Paris Climate Change Accord.
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Rather it's a nod to discussions about to start at United Nations headquarters in New York, as world leaders and their representatives gather to discuss first the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and then global biodiversity, before getting down to the main tranche of the General Assembly.
The likely loss of natural chemicals that might have life - saving value in advancing the development of new medicines should be added to the list of consequences of global warming, ocean acidification, and loss of biodiversity.
They will provide ecologists and land managers with new and better information to support biodiversity conservation, wildfire risk assessment, and timber production while helping climate scientists and others to better understand the role that U.S. forests play in the global carbon cycle.»
Bee population declines aren't new - we've steadily gone from 6 million captive hives in 1947 to about 2.5 million today - but the rate of decline has never been higher, and the situation is far worse for wild bees, threatening global biodiversity.
The biodiversity of Arctic and Antarctic regions is being affected in different ways by global warming, new research shows...
He proposed a list of new tasks for the water research and management community: develop global water assessment capabilities on a par with the current IPCC assessments for climate; expand monitoring and models; introduce a regular reporting system similar to that of the IPCC; carry out a comprehensive freshwater biodiversity survey to act as a benchmark; provide technical tools such as databases, scenarios and conflict research to reconcile competing water uses; and expand the focus on local basics and watersheds to a global basis.
«David Attenborough Backs «Last Chance» Push to Study Australian Biodiversity» (The Guardian) «The Australian Academy of Science and its New Zealand counterpart, the Royal Society Te Apārangi, are launching a 10 - year plan to study and name unknown species, warning that a sound understanding of biodiversity is critical in the face of a global extinction crisiBiodiversity» (The Guardian) «The Australian Academy of Science and its New Zealand counterpart, the Royal Society Te Apārangi, are launching a 10 - year plan to study and name unknown species, warning that a sound understanding of biodiversity is critical in the face of a global extinction crisibiodiversity is critical in the face of a global extinction crisis....»
The IPCC has already concluded that it is «virtually certain that human influence has warmed the global climate system» and that it is «extremely likely that more than half of the observed increase in global average surface temperature from 1951 to 2010» is anthropogenic.1 Its new report outlines the future threats of further global warming: increased scarcity of food and fresh water; extreme weather events; rise in sea level; loss of biodiversity; areas becoming uninhabitable; and mass human migration, conflict and violence.