Tag: United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity

A Quarter of Freshwater Fish Are at Risk of Extinction, a New Assessment Finds

A global update from the leading authority on the status of species shows that climate change is compounding other threats to plants and animals.

Countries Adopt a Sweeping Agreement to Protect Nature

Delegates meeting in Canada, aiming to halt a dangerous decline in biodiversity, agreed on a deal to place 30 percent of the planet under protection.

No One Wants to Say ‘Put Down That Burger.’ But We Really Should.

If current eating and farming trends continue, the world will clear at least one and a quarter more Indias worth of land by 2050.