Fires, floods and extreme weather will imperil a third of all life on land in the next 60 years

This forecast does not look good. Archaeologists might need to locate Noah’s lost ark sooner than we think. By 2085, over a third of all land animals’ habitats could be adversely impacted by extreme ...
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Study: 36% of land animal habitats could face multiple extremes by 2085

When wildfires swept through Brazil’s Pantanal wetland in 2020, the flames killed an estimated 17 million vertebrates in a single season. The Pantanal had already been parched by drought, leaving ...
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Colombia, a global biodiversity hotspot, faces rising threats to bird species from expanding human footprint

A new study published in the journal Environmental Research Letters used satellite mapping data to analyze how changes in human footprint on the landscape between 1970 and 2018 overlapped with ...
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Just 3 percent of terrestrial habitat is 'ecologically intact'

April 15 (UPI) --For more than 30 years, conservationists and policy makers have prioritized the protection of wilderness and intact habitat, acreage undisturbed by human activities. More recently, ...
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1/3rd of land animal habitats may face multiple climate extremes by 2085

A third of the habitats currently occupied by land animals across the world could be exposed to multiple climate-driven extreme events such as heatwaves, wildfires, droughts and floods by 2085 if ...

Extreme events could impact 36% of land animal habitats by 2085, says new study

Published in Nature Ecology & Evolution journal, the study, however, highlighted that cutting emissions to net zero could still prevent these impacts ...