📖@IPBES Assessment Report on Pollinators, Pollination and Food Production covers changes in animal pollination as a regulating ecosystem service that underpins food production and its contribution to gene flows and restoration of ecosystems.
👉ipbes.net/assessment-reports…
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'For 10,000 years humanity has thrived and grown on a remarkably stable planet. In a single lifetime, we have pushed the Earth over the edge.'
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Breaking Boundaries: The Science of @OurPlanet feat. David Attenborough @jrockstrom, @IPBES & more, is now available on @netflix
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Meet the largest flower on Earth...
The rafflesia arnoldii is a holoparasite of vines that has no stems, no leaves, and no roots, smells like rotting flesh and can weigh up to 22 lb.
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Via @ScienceChannel
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'#BiodiversityLoss has been eclipsed by #ClimateChange on the global agenda but the two issues are closely linked, have similar impacts on human welfare and need to be tackled urgently'
📰@kanupriyakapoor via @Reuters #BiodiversityClimateScience 🦋🌡️💡
reuters.com/business/environ…
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‘A new study suggests that portions of the #Amazon rainforest are now emitting more carbon dioxide than they absorb – a troubling sign for the fight against #ClimateChange’
@jswatz via @nytimes
nytimes.com/2021/07/14/clima…
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💭#DYK that sea turtles can be herbivores, carnivores, omnivores, gelatinivores or spongivores?
Leatherback Sea Turtles are referred to as gelatinivores because their diet consists of jellies and other soft-bodied invertebrates
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Via @OceanDiversity
nitter.vloup.ch/Oceandiversity2/…
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The @FoodSystems Pre-Summit will convene global actors to transform our #FoodSystems and deliver progress on the #GlobalGoals.
Get involved to watch sessions & engage in discussions about better food systems 🌎
🗓️ 26 – 28 July
▶️ bit.ly/unfss-ps
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If we go on with ‘business-as-usual’, we will continue to fray the fabric of life — biodiversity 🕸
The #post2020 framework is a chance to galvanize action and transform our world for the benefit of all.
Learn more w/@UNBiodiversity➡️cbd.int/post2020
#COP15 #ForNature
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🐛Walk into the weekend like a velvet worm🐛
These soft-bodied, many-legged panarthropods called velvet worms or onychophoras, have a fluid-filled body cavity that acts as a hydrostatic skeleton and shoots a white glue to ensnare prey
Via @ScienceChannel
Science Channel
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BREAKING: #G20 Environment Ministers issue Communique from Naples: g20.org/wp-content/uploads/2…
Specific mention of importance of scientific contributions of IPBES #PandemicsReport & @IPBES @IPCC_CH Co-sponsored w/shop report on #BiodiversityClimateScience
#SciencePolicy #Impact
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‘As temperatures rise and pollution increases, wildfires, floods and extreme winds have battered many parts of the world in the last six months’
Take a look at the #ClimateCrisis around the world - in pictures ⛈️🔥❄️🌡️
Compiled by @jplimmer via @guardian
theguardian.com/world/galler…
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Human beings aren't our world's only artists
Some of the 🌏's most beautiful masterpieces are created under the sea
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@BCCEarth shines a spotlight on "#nature's greatest artist"—the puffer fish
Mike Hudema
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💭 #DYK beavers are naturally clean animals?
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These rodents need to groom their fur daily to keep it waterproof. They can excrete an oily substance (castor) that they use in the grooming process, and to mark their territory.
Via @ScienceChannel
Science Channel
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Changing consumption patterns can help limit #BiodiversityLoss & #ClimateChange
This includes:
♻️reducing loss & waste
🥗shifting diets to more #PlantBased options
Every Action Counts.
#ForNature
Learn more with @UN
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Hi Marissa - thanks & apologies for any confusion. As with most @IPBES forms, you need to login with an IPBES website username to access this (or register first if not yet issued one). Much more here: ipbes.net/sites/default/file…
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Rivers are often damaged by...
🟤pollution
🔵overfishing
🟢over-extraction of water for agriculture, industry & energy
The UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration is an opportunity to make a difference for freshwater ecosystems.
Join #GenerationRestoration
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The #post2020 framework is a chance to galvanize action and transform our world for the benefit of all.
Learn more w/@UNBiodiversity➡️cbd.int/post2020
#COP15 #ForNature
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🚨Call for nomination of experts🚨
🔄#NexusAssessment (interlinkages among biodiversity, water, food & health)
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🌱#TransformativeChangeAssessment (underlying causes of biodiversity loss & determinants of transformative change)
Apply by 13 September👉ipbes.net/sites/default/file…
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'Climate change & the unprecedented loss of species currently underway result from a similar suite of human-driven causes
Solutions that take both issues into account have the best chance of success'
📰@johnccannon @mongabay #BiodiversityClimateScience
news.mongabay.com/2021/06/sc…
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Plastic pollution has a devastating impact on biodiversity
Up to 5 trillion single-use plastic bags are used every year, polluting the ocean & the environment
Bringing your reusable bag to markets can help reduce plastic pollution #ForNature
Learn more w/ @UN
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