If current eating and farming trends continue, the world will clear at least one and a quarter more Indias worth of land by 2050.
Tag: Biodiversity
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Those Adorable Endangered Creatures Are Not the Point
We treat conservation as an altruistic pursuit — a special interest championed by a passionate few — but it’s also a selfish cause.
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An App for Naturalists Offers a Shared Sense of Reality
As civil discourse online and off increasingly proves elusive, a website devoted to identifying plants and animals may be teaching humans how to get along.
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Why We Should All Be Chasing Acorns
Oaks are keystone plants, the central life form upon which so many other species in the ecosystem depend.
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The 2022 Living Planet Index Is Out. Here’s How to Understand It.
The latest update to an important assessment found that populations had declined by an average of 69 percent since 1970. But that might not mean what you think.