Biodiversity Loss
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What is a 'mass extinction' event? and is the Earth currently facing one?
•It will take several millions of years to restore the Earth's species to what they were prior to when human began changing the planet.
Climate breakdown is increasing the economic value of polar seas — beware the business opportunists
•Antarctic Ocean is the fourth-largest ocean and accounts for more than one-third of heat gain in the past 50 years.
Indigenous and local communities are key players in preventing the sixth mass extinction
Karthikeyan Hemalatha •Local communities are an important part of preserve the country’s natural, ecological diversity.
British govt to start a project to study nitrogen pollution in India and South Asia
Sunderarajan Padmanabhan •Nitrogen pollution is an emerging environmental problem linked with air pollution, biodiversity loss.