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Destruction of forests and grasslands is biggest cause of biodiversity loss
November 11, 2022

New research into the causes of the devastating global biodiversity crisis has found that the conversion of natural forests and grasslands to intensive agriculture and livestock is the biggest cause.

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Land clearing and climate change put half the world's wilderness areas at risk
November 4, 2022

A world-first study projects that climate change and land clearing will profoundly change half of the world’s remaining wilderness areas by 2050 unless governments act immediately to protect them. Governments must act now to protect the world’s remaining wilderness areas, which are set to be

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Lifting the clouds on land clearing and biodiversity loss. Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain
Lifting the clouds on land clearing and biodiversity loss
July 1, 2021

QUT researchers have developed a new machine learning mathematical system that helps to identify and detect changes in biodiversity, including land clearing, when satellite imagery is obstructed by clouds.

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Creating cement for the border wall’s base creates dust and uses up an enormous amount of water from impoverished desert aquifers, up to 710,000 gallons of water per mile of wall by some measures. PHOTOGRAPH BY ADRIANA ZEHBRAUSKAS, THE NEW YORK TIMES/REDUX
The U.S. border wall is tearing through wilderness, right under our noses
November 6, 2020

In Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Arizona, you can find more than 30 species of cactus, including the saguaro, desert giants that tower over the landscape and live for centuries...This UNESCO Biosphere Reserve lies right on the United States-Mexico Border, previously demarcated only by

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WWF-Australia says the proposal to allow landholders to clear up to 25 metres from their fence line will fragment forests and make it even harder for koalas to get around. Photograph: Lisa Maree Williams/Getty Images
Bush and koalas found to be threatened by 'gratuitous' NSW land-clearing plan
October 28, 2020

Tens of thousands of hectares of bush could be at risk under a New South Wales government proposal to allow rural landholders to clear up to 25 metres of land from their property’s fence line, analysis by WWF-Australia shows...The proposal, which was not one of the 76 recommendations from th

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