News from Population Matters.
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World Wildlife Day: 5 ways you can help forest species
World Wildlife Day, falling on March 3rd every year, is a UN initiative that aims to celebrate wild species and raise awareness of their plight. This year’s theme, ‘Forests and…
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To save biodiversity, we must transform our food systems
A major new analysis highlights that current food production and consumption patterns are the biggest driver of biodiversity loss, and proposes three key actions to turn the tide and create…
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Humanity headed towards ‘ghastly future’: Urgent warning from top scientists
An important new study warns that the world is failing to grasp the gravity of our environmental crises, and that without urgent action on the underlying causes, population and consumption…
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What COVID-19 has taught us about our relationship with nature
As 2020 draws to a close, humanity is reflecting on a particularly difficult year. For most of us, it was a year of social isolation, anxiety and loneliness. For many,…
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Earth Overshoot Day: Five ways we can move the date
Every year, Earth Overshoot Day marks the day when humanity has consumed all the resources that the planet can produce over the entire year. This year it falls on 22…
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Eating the planet: what our diets and population growth mean for the environment
A new report reveals that global adoption of current food consumption patterns in G20 countries would ruin our chance of meeting climate and sustainability targets, exceeding the planetary boundary for food-related emissions…
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Population growth and environmental destruction fuel deadly diseases
Our growing population and resulting overexploitation of nature are facilitating the emergence and spread of infectious diseases like COVID-19. Population Matters’ Communications Officer, Olivia Nater, investigates how relentless deforestation, habitat encroachment, wildlife trade, consumption…
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Larger population, larger people: humanity will require 80% more food by 2100
A new study shows that increases in average human height and weight, alongside population growth, could cause global food demand to soar. The study, published in PLOS ONE, looked into…
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Organic agriculture could increase climate emissions without changes in population and diet
A new study shows that converting all farmland in England and Wales to organic agriculture could increase greenhouse gas emissions because meeting the food demands of the UK population would…
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Despite economic growth, billions won’t have enough fruit and veg by 2050
A new Lancet study analysing the gap between future fruit and vegetable supply and recommended consumption levels found that even under the most optimistic socioeconomic growth scenarios, there won’t be…