💥#BREAKING from #BusinessNatureSummit💥
European Business Statement calls for scaling up action #ForNature, to integrate biodiversity as strongly as climate into the EU Green Deal🇪🇺 & recovery plans, and to follow recommendations of @IPBES & @IPCC_CH 🌿
epe-asso.org/en/ebns-2021-bu…
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As nature declines, so does its contributions to people.
When it comes to soils, for the past 50 years, formation, protection, and decontamination of soils and sediments have been in decline.
For #WorldSoilDay, learn more with @IPBES #GlobalAssessment: ipbes.net/global-assessment
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Ice flows captured in one single view✨❄️
Explore this map showing the movement of ice on the Greenland ice cap, capturing the dynamism of the ice by showing it as flow lines.
@spatialanalysis & @oliveruberti based on data from @NASA
@RGS_IBG 👉
rgs.org/geography/geovisuali…
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Many changes in the climate system become larger in direct relation to #GlobalWarming incl. increases in frequency & intensity of hot extremes, heat waves, precipitation, droughts, tropical cyclones & reduction in sea ice & more
⛈️@IPCC_CH #ClimateReport ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/
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Soils host 1/4 of our planet's biodiversity. Yet, soil pollution puts this at risk.
It starts by reducing #soils’ biodiversity, which weakens the soil structure and its ability to resist erosion.
Learn more w/@FAO
#WorldSoilDay
Food and Agriculture Organization
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📢The external review period of the draft scoping report of the @IPBES #BizBiodiversity assessment is open until 13 December📢
👉Register to review the draft scoping report ipbes.net/registration/busin…
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What are the main threats to animal & plant species extinction in the #Americas?🔍
🐸#Invasive & other problematic species
🦠Genes & diseases
🚜Agriculture & aquaculture
🏭Biological resource use
🌎📖@IPBES Regional Assessment on #Biodiversity: ipbes.net/assessment-reports…
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Our food doesn’t have to come at nature’s expense.
New research from @nature_org highlights how local #FoodSystems could help heal the planet.
nature.ly/3bWd4Sn #GrowPositive
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Soil biodiversity drives many essential processes to food production and soil and water purification.
For #WorldSoilDay, explore The State of Knowledge of Soil Biodiversity by @FAO, @theGSBI, @UNBiodiversity & @EU_Commission 💧🪱🍄🐛
fao.org/documents/card/en/c/…
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How to develop heat-tolerant cultivars of lentils?🌡️
Lentils are an important cool-season crop, with productivity threatened by global warming
Kumar et al. @icarindia identify genes expressed under heat stress via RNAseq or transcriptome analysis
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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"Greenland had quite a year." 🇬🇱❄️
"By the end of the melt season, the ice sheet lost more ice than it gained – for the 25th year in a row."
📰@KashaPatel @Independent
independent.co.uk/climate-ch…
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Up to 90% of living organisms live or spend part of their lifecycle in soils, according to @FAO🐜
Soil #biodiversity is a key to healthy soils🌾
Ahead of #WorldSoilDay on December 5th, learn more about the benefits of healthy soils
➡️ fao.org/soils-portal/soil-bi…
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What is a #OneHealth approach?
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One Health leverages work across the #AnimalHealth, human health & environmental health landscapes & is often used as a guiding principle for pandemic prevention policy options
@IPBES #PandemicsReport: ipbes.net/pandemics #WHASpecial
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Our planet supports an incredible diversity of species.
🐾🐄🐸🐛🙋🦑🐝🕷️🐘🐧🐠🐦🦈🐌
Explore the composition of the living world in terms of biomass via
🎨@markabelan / @Sheril_
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Happy #InternationalJaguarDay! 🐯📅
Today, we celebrate the Americas’ largest wildcat as a potent symbol of the need for conservation and #SustainableDevelopment & of the centuries-old cultural heritage of Central and #SouthAmerica 🌎
internationaljaguarday.org
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Join the European #BusinessNatureSummit virtually on 30 November and 1 December 2021, feat. Anne Lariguauderie, @IPBES Executive Secretary
#ForNature businessnaturesummit.virtual…
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'Conserving and restoring our planet's unique web of life is not only vital for reasons of ethics and common sense, but also for economics.'
—HRH The Prince of Wales 🌱🌍
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💭#DYK that the pink oyster mushroom or pleurotus djamor has a shelf life of only about a day?
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This member of the Pleurotaceae family is an edible mushroom that has a meaty and chewy texture.
Via @ScienceChannel
Science Channel
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