Biodiversity

Impacts On Biodiversity: The Amazon & Indonesian Fires

Eric Amazon Rainforest, Biodiversity, Food, Forests October 8, 2019October 3, 2019Amazon fires, Biodiversity, biological resources, Cattle ranching, ecosystem services, extinction, Farming, Indonesian fires, natural medicines, palm plantations

Plant and animal biodiversity is one of the main factors that makes ecosystems function and beneficial for humans. It is defined as “biological diversity in an environment as indicated by numbers of different species of plants and

All Eyes on the Amazon

Meghan Biodiversity, Carbon Sequestration, Current Events September 3, 2019September 24, 2019#actfortheamazon, #prayforamazonia, #prayfortheamazon, Amazon fires, Brazil, Brazillian beef, Cattle ranching, Deforestation, Land clearing, The Amazon Rainforest

By now, we’ve all heard about the wildfires raging in the Amazon rainforest in South America. We’ve heard some pretty terrifying statistics, seen social media go wild, and watched the players on the world political stage enact

How to be more socially minded on social media

Julia Biodiversity, Climate Change, Emissions, Oceans, Sustainability July 26, 2019July 26, 2019Biographic, Cal Academy, clean energy leadership institute, EcoRoots, Goals for Sustainable Development, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, Joel Sartore, jonathan foley, monterary bay aquarium, Plastic Free July, Plastic Tides, seafood watch, UCLA, United Nations

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Looking to spend less time mindlessly scrolling on social media? Want to spend more time learning about environmental issues and how to live a more sustainable life? Make your scrolling meaningful and fill your feeds with these

The Biodiversity Crisis – A Warning from the UN

Ben Biodiversity, Climate Change, Sustainability May 10, 2019July 18, 2019Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Science, IPBES, Sustainability, United Nations

On Monday, a summary of the report from the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES, an intergovernmental body which assesses the state of biodiversity and of the ecosystem services it provides to society, in