- The world’s species are playing musical chairs: how will it end?
Plant biodiversity is doing well; fewer than 10 native species have gone extinct, and there are now 4,000 plant species on the islands, up from 2,000 before human settlers And there are more than
- Why aliens might already know that humans exist - BBC
In April, Isaacson calculated whether some of these transmissions, up to 20 kilowatts, might reach other stars as they wash over the remote spacecraft and continue their journey into space He
- Plants - Biological Diversity
The total number of described plant species hovers around 250,000 Our information on plant species numbers is far from perfect The International Union for the Conservation of Nature's Red List estimates that about 54 percent of evaluated plant species (not nearly all the plants on Earth) are threatened: 10,584 out of 19,738
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- Worldometer - real time world statistics
is projected to reach 9 billion in 2037, and 10 billion in 2060 has doubled in 40 years from 1959 (3 billion) to 1999 (6 billion) is currently (2025) growing at a rate of around 0 85% per year, adding around 70 million people per year to the total growth rate reached its peak in the late 1960s, when it was at 2 09%
- Biodiversity Hotspots - Education
Biodiversity hotspots make up only about 2 5% of Earth’s land surface, yet they are home to more than half of the world’s plants and 43% of land vertebrates Most plants in a biodiversity hotspot are endemic, meaning they are not found anywhere else on Earth
- Here are our top facts about the Amazon | WWF
And incredibly, a new species of animal or plant is discovered in the Amazon every other day on average 3 The Amazon is home to 47 million people, including more than 2 million indigenous people More than 400 different indigenous groups live in the Amazon, which is more than anywhere else on
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