Biodiversity loss in all species and every ecosystem linked to humans – report

Photo: Dead fish on the shore of Middle Branch, near Port Covington in Baltimore Harbor. Photo credit: Jim Pickerell – U.S. NARA / Wikimedia. Public Domain. Article by Phoebe Weston. The Guardian – March 26, 2025. Research article: Nature.

Humans are driving biodiversity loss among all species across the planet, according to a synthesis of more than 2,000 studies. The exhaustive global analysis leaves no doubt about the devastating impact humans are having on Earth, according to researchers from the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag) and the University of Zurich. The study – which accounted for nearly 100,000 sites across all continents – found that human activities had resulted in “unprecedented effects on biodiversity”, according to the paper, published in Nature. […]

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