May 2, 2023 | Biodiversity
Perspective One: Oceanic disruption causing ecosystemic catastrophes Plastic pollution is a major contributor to the emergence of large-scale resource deprivation in marine ecosystems. The most significant evidence of the negative impacts of plastic pollution is...
Apr 30, 2023 | Biodiversity
The easy part – formulating goals and setting targets – is done. Now it’s on the parties (this time) to deliver on their high-aiming promises. In 2018, the UN Environment Programme’s Global Biodiversity Outlook 5 report plainly laid bare that...
Mar 9, 2023 | Biodiversity
Lacking the fanfare and media reach of COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh, the Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP15) that was held in Montreal just weeks later was a more lowkey affair. Created at the Rio Earth Summit in 1992, the...
Mar 6, 2023 | Biodiversity
Tropical Rainforests and Climate Change Over the past 50 years, climate change has become an increasingly important issue and is recognized as a major threat to our future. Climate change is defined as a significant change in global and regional climate patterns...
Feb 21, 2023 | Biodiversity
How is the Boreal Forest a carbon sink? As a refresher, an ecosystem is a carbon sink when it absorbs more “carbon” (in many different forms but usually CO2 from the atmosphere) than it releases. Boreal Forests are an excellent carbon sink as the very cold...
Feb 6, 2023 | Biodiversity
The Boreal Forest Ecosystem Located south of the world’s tundras and north of many mixed forest zones, the northern regions of Canada, the United States and Russia account for 93% of the Taiga biome [7]. Due to the harsh conditions, there is a low diversity of...
