Human - Wikipedia It took over two million years of human prehistory and history for the human population to reach one billion and only 207 years more to grow to 7 billion [150] The combined biomass of the carbon of all the humans on Earth in 2018 was estimated at 60 million tons, about 10 times larger than that of all non-domesticated mammals [142]
Ecosystem restoration: India holds great promise during the . . . Owing to its diverse physical and climatic conditions, it accounts for nearly 8% of the recorded species with approximately 47,000 plant species and over 100,000 animal species However, the pressure on ecosystems and biodiversity is also immense, as India, within 2 4% of the world’s land area, supports 18% of the global human population and
Five Years Counting: Gulf Wildlife in the Aftermath of the . . . development in many species of fish, including mahi-mahi, Gulf killifish and bluefin and yellowfin tuna • Spotted seatrout, also known as speckled trout, spawned less frequently in 2011 in both Louisiana and Mississippi than in previous years • Both 2010 and 2011 had the lowest numbers of juvenile red snapper seen in the eastern Gulf fishery
China points the way to biodiversity protection - Nature More than 90% of terrestrial ecosystem types, together with 85% of key wild animal populations, are now protected in China; some populations of rare and endangered wild species are gradually
Climate change: global temperature | NOAA Climate. gov The roughly 2-degree-Fahrenheit (1-degree-Celsius) increase in global average surface temperature that has occurred since the pre-industrial era (1850-1900 in NOAA's record) might seem small, but it represents a significant increase in heat energy circulating through all parts of the Earth system, including the oceans, frozen landscapes, and
Unsustainable and illegal wildlife trade | WWF The trade involves hundreds of millions of wild plants and animals from tens of thousands of species To provide a glimpse of the scale of wildlife trafficking, there are records of over 100 million tonnes of fish, 1 5 million live birds and 440,000 tonnes of medicinal plants in trade in just one year Why is wildlife trade a problem?