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Biodiversity / Biodevastation
Stories about Biodiversity and Biodevastation.
Sea Level Acceleration
Solar Ends Growth
Capitalism Created The Climate Catastrophe
By:
Vijay Prashad
Around the World in Drought
Paper Straws are not Enough
Mass Death of Sequoias Is the Harbinger of Earth Systems Collapse
By:
Bruce Melton, TRUTHOUT
Climate change is killing giant sequoias in numbers that portend ecological disaster unless radical action is taken to reverse the impacts of the climate crisis. Sequoias, once deemed “unburnable,” began to be widely destroyed by fire in 2015, and then in 2020 and 2021, California fires tripled in area covered.
Breakdown of the Marine Food Web
By:
Robert Hunziker
For the first time, a significant loss at the base of the marine food web has been detected. The Scottish research vessel Capepod reported the findings in equatorial waters of the Atlantic Ocean.
Greenland Threatens
Will Egypt Drain the World's Second Largest Wetland?
By:
Robert Hunziker
“With 35% loss globally since 1970, wetlands are our most threatened ecosystem, disappearing three times faster than forests. Wetlands’ services for climate mitigation, adaptation biodiversity, and human health outweigh all other terrestrial ecosystems.” (Source: Wetlands are Being Lost at Alarming Rates, Global Wetland Outlook, 2021)
Sudd is Africa’s largest freshwater wetland at roughly 3,500 square miles in an otherwise dry region of South Sudan. It’s under threat by a megaproject named Jonglei Canal that has the potential to devastate this ecological gem.
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