Climate change could become the main factor in biodiversity loss by the middle of this century. This is confirmed by a study, published on April 25 in the journal Science, led by researchers from the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) and Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU). The research, which references several models, not only predicts the loss but also looks back: global biodiversity has decreased between 2% and 11% during the 20th century solely due to land use change. According to the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), land use change is considered the biggest … Continue reading Climate Change to Overtake Land Use as Top Threat to Biodiversity by 2050