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About
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Contributors
Parfait Gasana is an economics-trained data and research analyst from the Chicago area with passionate interests in public infrastructure, energy, environment, empirical methods, and data analytics. Active on GitHub, Gitlab, and StackOverflow communities, he is also an avid reader of global environment news and creates environment-themed data projects usually in R, Python, and SQL databases.
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Sites
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Follow the latest Environment news, videos, and analysis from ABC News.
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The latest news from The Associated Press on climate change, threats to biodiversity and renewable energies.
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All the latest content about Environment from the BBC.
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Encyclopedia article on biodiversity loss.
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News and blog articles about the environment and information on current environmental issues and topics affecting planet earth.
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A digital platform still dedicated to publishing quality, science-based content on environmental issues, causes, and solutions.
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Latest environmental news, opinion and analysis from the Guardian
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Latest stories about the environment
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Read about the latest headlines covering global warming, recycling, conservation efforts, pollution and more from NBCNews.com
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Breaking news on the environment, climate change, pollution, and endangered species from NPR.
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Earth Overshoot Day marks the date when humanity has used all the biological resources that Earth regenerates during the entire year.
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News and features on our changing environment from PBS.
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Environment news from an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest.
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Find latest environment news from every corner of the globe at Reuters.com
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Source for the latest research news
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Millennium Alliance for Humanity and the Biosphere (MAHB) is a meeting place for global civil society — citizens concerned with the interconnections among the greatest threats to human well-being: this is the human predicament.
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An original, independent voice in environmental journalism, E360 is an online magazine that publishes opinion, analysis, reporting, and debate on global environmental issues.
Data
Global
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An international network and data infrastructure funded by the world’s governments and aimed at providing anyone, anywhere, open access to data about all types of life on Earth
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The world’s most authoritative biodiversity data for your world-shaping decisions
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Primer on models of biodiversity and ecosystem function with additional resources
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Map of Life assembles and integrates different sources of data describing species distributions worldwide. These data include expert species range maps, species occurrence points, ecoregions, and protected areas from providers like IUCN, WWF, GBIF, and more.
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NASA Earth observation data are a key component of research into the causes behind changes in biodiversity and the impacts of these changes.
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Provides access to global spatial data to generate insight and impact for conservation and sustainable development
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Editorial management system controlled by taxonomic and thematic experts that provides an authoritative and comprehensive list of names of marine organisms.
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Regional
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Australian Antarctic Data Centre (AADC) has developed a terrestrial biodiversity database that captures all recorded species observations and their locations from the Antarctic and subantarctic.
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Open Access to Australia’s biodiversity data
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Continental and conterminous US ecoregions maps and GIS datasets for spatial analysis
Plants
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The most comprehensive database of conservation assessments of plants
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An international collaborative programme that has as a primary aim to make available digitized data of the world’s flora gathered from the past 250 years of botanical exploration and research
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Global overview of the diversity of plant species
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Animals
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AntWeb is the world’s largest online database of images, specimen records, and natural history information on ants.
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Web portal for case studies, Important Bird and Biodiversity Areas (IBAs), country profiles, and case studies regarding bird species.
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Dataset contains time-series of population abundance data for vertebrate species spanning years between 1970 and 2021.
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Validated collection of published data on the composition of soil fungal communities in terrestrial environments including soil and plant-associated habitats and made them publicly accessible through a user interface
Land
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ArcGIS app to explore the world’s 800+ terrestial ecoregions classified in 14 different biome types
Videos
IPBES - Diverse values and valuation of nature Assessment
Greenpeace: Biodiversity loss from land use
OECD: The Impact of Nitrogen Pollution
Royal Society: Why is Biodiversity Important?
World Bank: Biodiversity: Putting Nature at the Core of Development Efforts
WWF: Untangled: Biodiversity Loss