What Losing 1 Million Species Means for the Planet — and Humanity • The Revelator

A new UN report finds that at least 1 million species are at risk of extinction. Will this finally be enough to motivate worldwide action?
The United Nations this week released a powerful report on the state of nature around the planet. Among its disheartening conclusions, the report — by hundreds of experts from 50 countries — estimates that a staggering 1 million species are at risk of extinction in the next few decades due to human-related causes.

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Konstanz becomes first German city to declare climate emergency

I am very proud of my Alma mater.



Konstanz becomes first German city to declare climate emergency

Southern German city declares ‘climate emergency’

I am so proud of my Alma mater to follow the UKs example.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/southern-german-city-declares-climate-emergency/2019/05/03/32f25b9a-6da5-11e9-bbe7-1c798fb80536_story.html

Food safety: Dung beetles and soil bacteria reduce risk of human pathogens -- ScienceDaily

Food safety regulations increasingly pressure growers to remove hedgerows, ponds and other natural habitats from farms to keep out pathogen-carrying wildlife and livestock. Yet, this could come at the cost of biodiversity. New research encourages the presence of dung beetles and soil bacteria at farms as they naturally suppress E. coli and other harmful pathogens before spreading to humans.

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UK Parliament declares climate change emergency - BBC News

This is leadership needed from every government!



MPs have approved a motion to declare an environment and climate emergency.

This proposal, which demonstrates the will of the Commons on the issue but does not legally compel the government to act, was approved without a vote.



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PFAS found in Saline during investigation across River Raisin watershed - mlive.com

Michigan officials are investigating PFAS contamination in a second watershed that feeds into Lake Erie.

The chemicals were found last summer in Saline, southwest of Ann Arbor, where the city’s wastewater treatment plant was discharging them to a tributary of the River Raisin.

That’s also near a contaminated industrial site, located just steps from the Saline River, that has even higher levels of the unsafe chemicals in groundwater- and they’re possibly moving into the river, officials say.

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WHO: New report calls for urgent action to avert antimicrobial resistance crisis

CAFOS such as the ones we have in Lenawee County are one big culprit for this danger!

International organizations unite on critical recommendations to combat drug-resistant infections and prevent staggering number of deaths each year

29 April 2019 Joint News Release  New York

UN, international agencies and experts today released a groundbreaking report demanding immediate, coordinated and ambitious action to avert a potentially disastrous drug-resistance crisis.

If no action is taken - warns the UN Ad hoc Interagency Coordinating Group on Antimicrobial Resistance who released the report – drug-resistant diseases could cause 10 million deaths each year by 2050 and damage to the economy as catastrophic as the 2008-2009 global financial crisis. By 2030, antimicrobial resistance could force up to 24 million people into extreme poverty.



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