1/30/2024 0 Comments Environmental issues![]() It can reduce the demand for other habitat-harming energy sources such as hydropower, and the evaporative cooling water offers makes the panels more efficient. ![]() For one, it saves land resources that might otherwise be covered with solar panels. The approach offers a number of benefits to biodiversity. In recent years the notion of siting them on water rather than land has taken off dramatically, with more than 300 installations in place around the world today. One of the big challenges for solar power is finding a place to put large arrays of photovoltaic panels. Read on for this year’s top picks, and see our coverage of previous years’ horizon scans here or at the bottom of this page. To this end, a group of scientists and conservation practitioners led by William Sutherland, professor of conservation biology at the University of Cambridge, each year creates and publishes a “horizon scan” of global trends with impacts for biodiversity. ![]() So, what can we do to reduce future harm? One big thing is to identify emerging threats and opportunities to protect biodiversity and proactively shape policies and actions to prevent harm early on. According to the World Economic Forum, nature plays a key role in generating more than half of global GDP. And that’s bad news not only for the creatures themselves, but for those of us (that would be all of us) who rely on them for food, to produce oxygen, to hold soil in place, to cleanse water, to beautify our world and so much more. In 2020 alone, scientists declared more than 100 species to be extinct. November 29, 2021-It’s no secret that the diversity of life around us is plummeting fast. From Ensia (find the original story here) reprinted with permission.
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