Where is the threshold of environmental change that biodiversity can withstand before it is destabilized and collapses planetwide?

Where is the threshold of environmental change that biodiversity can withstand before it is destabilized and collapses planetwide?

Biodiversity. When you hear this word, what do you picture? Iconic animals like African elephants, gray wolves and humpback whales? Or multicolored coral species that make up a reef system? Or bacteria and microbes that regulate nutrients in the soil, or oxygen-releasing phytoplankton that live in the ocean’s sunlit zones? While biodiversity does embrace all […]

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Scottish wildlife at risk after £100m funding cut, say charities

Scottish wildlife at risk after £100m funding cut, say charities

Public funding for environment bodies in Scotland has plummeted by 40% in a decade, placing already declining wildlife at risk, according to analysis of government budgets. Scottish Environment Link, a coalition of more than 35 wildlife, environment and countryside charities, including the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, WWF and the Scottish Wildlife Trust, […]

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