More than 1 in 10 species could be lost by the end of the century, study warns

No new study (🇬🇧), researchers say 6% of plants and animals will disappear by 2050, rising to 13% by the end of the century. In the worst case scenario of global warming, they estimate that 27% of plants and animals could disappear by 2100.

The research comes when talks at the largest conference on biodiversity in a decade – the COP15 – reach a critical point in Montreal. More than 100 environment ministers from around the world are discussing this decade's goals to protect the biodiversity from the earth.

Governments begin negotiations for an agreement on biodiversity

Ministers from around the world began this Thursday (15) trying to bring together positions to close an agreement that will save nature in the next decade, after intense and difficult negotiations at the UN Conference on Biodiversity (COP15), in Montreal, Canada.

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Coal consumption breaks record in 2022

Global consumption of coal, the largest source of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in the world, will record a new record in 2022, driven by increased demand in Europe, says a report from the International Energy Agency (IEA). The institution predicts that global consumption of the energy source will increase by 1,2% annually, exceeding 8 billion tons.

Belo Monte and fears of an environmental catastrophe

Dead fish and a pool of water where the Xingu River, a tributary of the Amazon, used to flow. The water dried up because of the gigantic dam at the Belo Monte hydroelectric plant. River dwellers, indigenous people and environmentalists say that the construction of the immense dam changed the ecosystem, bringing impacts that may be irrecoverable for the region. They expect President-elect Lula to fulfill his promess to do a better job protecting the Amazon than Jair Bolsonaro, even though he was responsible for the Belo Monte project getting off the ground.

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