N3 Ecosystems & Biodiversity
by main topic: 90
Issues 15
- IssueAmazon rainforest near a tipping point toward savanna1 trends · 1 signals
- IssueBiodiversity loss and the collapse of ecosystem functions0 trends · 1 signals
- IssueEcological decline as a systemic risk to health, economy and resilience3 trends · 0 signals
- IssueEcological risks of gene-edited trees: gene flow, biodiversity loss and water use1 trends · 0 signals
- IssueForest cover alone misreads land system health1 trends · 1 signals
- IssueGenetic material in water and soil as continuous biodiversity monitoring1 trends · 0 signals
- IssueImported pests degrading forests and carbon storage1 trends · 0 signals
- IssueIrreversible loss to people, infrastructure, economies and ecosystems1 trends · 0 signals
- IssueMajor progress on UK air, water and soil pollution1 trends · 0 signals
- IssueOcean life and ocean integrity missing from the boundary framework3 trends · 2 signals
- IssueProtecting seafloor integrity from trawling and mining1 trends · 3 signals
- IssueRange shifts, invasive species and ocean acidification disrupting food chains1 trends · 0 signals
- IssueSeabed mining governance splits between pause and unilateral permitting1 trends · 0 signals
- IssueVirtual Nature1 trends · 0 signals
- IssueWorsening climate change causing extinctions and weakening nature's buffer1 trends · 0 signals
Trends 19
Macroeconomy & Finance 1
Industry & Supply Chains 3
- TrendBiodiversity decline undermining ecosystems, economy and wellbeing11 signals
- TrendEvolving Ecosystems3 signals
- TrendHuman reach extending across the global seafloor2 signals
Trade & Economic Security 1
Climate Change & Adaptation 5
- TrendBiosphere integrity deep in the high-risk zone4 signals
- TrendForest cover below the safe level and declining across biomes2 signals
- TrendOcean acidification pushed past its planetary boundary1 signals
- TrendOcean losing dissolved oxygen1 signals
- TrendUnprecedented global biodiversity loss2 signals
Resources, Food & Water 4
- TrendBiodiversity is declining2 signals
- TrendIndustrial and fertiliser pollution creating coastal dead zones0 signals
- TrendSteep long-term decline of Dutch biodiversity1 signals
- TrendTrend K: Ecological and environmental crisis2 signals
Welfare & Health 4
- TrendClimate, population and overconsumption accelerating biodiversity loss0 signals
- TrendMetal pollutant exposure remaining a global challenge0 signals
- TrendNew forms of pollution adding to a persistent health and equity threat10 signals
- TrendNovel entities released faster than they can be tested12 signals
Other 1
- TrendIntensified nature restoration producing results2 signals
Signals 56
Macroeconomy & Finance 3
Industry & Supply Chains 8
- Signal98 per cent of the biodiversity impact of Finnish consumption occurs outside Finland
- SignalAlgae coatings as a replacement for synthetic textile dyes
- SignalEach nodule mining operation could disturb over 200 square kilometres
- SignalNature investment estimated at $10 trillion of business value and 395 million jobs
- SignalOver 350,000 chemicals and mixtures registered worldwide
- SignalOver 45,000 sites disturbed by mining
- SignalPlastic flows into air, land and water projected to grow over 120% by 2040
- SignalUK consumption linked to 30,656 hectares of tropical deforestation in 2021
Climate Change & Adaptation 7
- Signal2025 bleaching event exposed 84.4 percent of reef area
- SignalForest cover at 64 percent of potential against a 78 percent boundary
- SignalNature-based solutions save 57 billion dollars in flood damage a year
- SignalNew Hampshire governor signs Wildlife Corridors bill into law
- SignalNew study: small extra deforestation could tip the Amazon
- SignalShelf sediments hold about 360 billion tonnes of organic carbon
- SignalSurface aragonite saturation at 2.85, just below the 2.86 boundary
Resources, Food & Water 8
- Signal420 million hectares of forest lost since 1990
- SignalBottom trawling disturbs 1 to 2 percent of the seafloor each year
- SignalHumans appropriate 21 to 30 percent of natural plant productivity
- SignalIndia Launches First-Ever National Guide to Grasslands and Open Natural Ecosystems at UNCCD COP17
- SignalNearly 90 percent of deforestation followed by farming
- SignalPollinators needed by over 75 percent of food crops; 60 percent of farmland lacks biodiversity
- SignalSpecies extinction running 100-1,000 times the natural rate
- SignalStudy urges land-use planning to include hidden soil biodiversity
Geopolitics & Security 1
Democracy & Governance 7
- SignalCanadian appeals court upholds ruling against Chalk River nuclear waste facility permit
- SignalEnvironment Act 2021 sets air, water, waste and biodiversity targets
- SignalEnvironmental groups sue California over missed deadline on white sturgeon endangered species review
- SignalForest estimate and boundary revised by method corrections
- SignalGlobal Biodiversity Framework targets restoring 30% of degraded areas by 2030
- SignalNext IPBES global assessment scheduled for 2028
- SignalSBSTTA-28 side event flags gender data gap in biodiversity monitoring
Welfare & Health 5
- Signal19 to 23 million tonnes of plastic waste enter waters each year
- SignalHuman activity has tripled atmospheric mercury since 1850
- SignalNearly 14 percent of Red List animal species affected by pollution
- SignalNovel Entities boundary judged transgressed on untested releases
- SignalUK urban NO2 and particulates down since the 1990s but ozone rising
Other 17
0-3 years 17
- Signal0.5 to 3 percent of ocean oxygen lost in five decades
- Signal42,100 species at risk of extinction; monitored wildlife down 69%
- Signal60 percent of ice-free land beyond local EcoRisk boundaries
- Signal75% of land and 66% of ocean significantly altered since 1970
- Signal91 percent of an expected 2.2 million marine species undescribed
- SignalA million European wildfowl die yearly from lead ammunition
- SignalAbout one million plant and animal species at risk of extinction
- SignalAll 19 Red List species groups declining; species count up 13% since 1990
- SignalAlmost 10% of plastic litter ends up in the ocean
- SignalAverage wildlife populations down roughly 69 to 73 per cent
- SignalExtinction rate above 100 per million species-years against a boundary of 10
- SignalGlobal vertebrate population index fell an average 73 percent from 1970 to 2020
- SignalMicroplastics near Everest and pollutants in Arctic animals
- SignalNational Nature Network behind schedule but adding nature land
- SignalNearly one in six British species threatened with extinction
- SignalNo square metre of Baltic seafloor left unaltered
- SignalOver 950 UK species associated with ash trees threatened by dieback
Objects with this as a secondary topic 86
Macroeconomy & Finance 4
- Signal44 trillion dollars of economic value depends on nature
- SignalGlobal Witness: banks channeled $31 billion in sustainability-linked loans to deforestation-linked palm oil firms
- IssueUnderinvestment where value is long-term, diffuse or hard to monetise1 trends · 0 signals
- TrendUndervalued nature and ecosystem collapse becoming costly0 signals
Industry & Supply Chains 3
Trade & Economic Security 2
Climate Change & Adaptation 19
0-3 years 13
- SignalAntarctic melt rate said to have tripled in five years and hazard exposure to have doubled in forty
- SignalArctic ice volume reported at a record low in 2018
- SignalChina's landmark Ecological and Environmental Code takes effect to drive green modernization
- SignalConCourt ends Shell's Wild Coast oil and gas lifeline in victory for coastal communities
- IssueEarth outside its safe operating space with seven of nine boundaries transgressed8 trends · 0 signals
- TrendEnvironmental risks losing perceived importance while climate inaction stays first0 signals
- TrendLand carbon sink weakening and stagnating1 signals
- SignalLand carbon uptake stagnant since around 2000
- TrendOcean heat uptake accelerating1 signals
- SignalOcean heat uptake rising by 0.15 W/m2 per decade
- SignalPermafrost holds 2.5 times atmospheric carbon while shipping may darken ice
- SignalTrawling may release 160 to 400 million tonnes of carbon a year
- SignalUS Forest Service Moves to Rescind 25-Year-Old Roadless Rule Protecting National Forests
11-30 years 4
Other 2
- IssueModels trained on the past get worse as the climate stops resembling it1 trends · 0 signals
- IssueRising risk of crossing Earth-system tipping points and cascades1 trends · 1 signals
Resources, Food & Water 19
0-3 years 14
- SignalAbout 69% of UK land used for agriculture
- TrendClimate change enabling new plant pathogens and invasive species0 signals
- SignalCrop diversity shrank 75% in the 20th century
- SignalFarm runoff and untreated sewage lead UK river pollution
- SignalFonterra has invested in Vivici, which claims 87% less water than cattle-derived whey protein
- SignalGlobal Footprint Network cited: resources used 1.75 times faster than regeneration
- SignalGrand Rapids has destroyed landfill PFAS since 2023 and Daikin processed 170,000 gallons in a field trial
- SignalMalawi, Mozambique and Tanzania sign agreement establishing Ruvuma River Basin Commission
- SignalMicroplastics and nanoplastics are defined by size and reported in human blood, lungs and placentas
- TrendNitrogen and phosphorus flows far beyond safe levels2 signals
- SignalOver 200 quarantine pests listed, six established in Great Britain
- SignalPopulation doubled and GDP rose tenfold in fifty years; ecological deficit since 1970
- SignalRegenerative Organic Certified becomes a verification marker for nutritional quality claims
- SignalTwo thirds of assessed marine stocks fished sustainably, with regional outliers far higher
4-10 years 4
- SignalBamboo Industry Becomes China's Institutionalized Plastic Substitute, Reaching $7.75 Billion in 2025
- TrendClimate and trade intensifying plant pest outbreaks9 signals
- IssueReading the living fraction of soil at scale1 trends · 0 signals
- TrendTechnology 4: PFAS treatment moves from containment to destruction of the carbon-fluorine bond2 signals
Other 1
- IssueSonic Sweep1 trends · 0 signals
Geopolitics & Security 3
- IssueArctic governance fractures as competition replaces cooperation1 trends · 0 signals
- IssueGovernment: sequencing frontier access faster than frameworks adapt1 trends · 0 signals
- SignalUS executive order claims unilateral deep seabed mining licences
Democracy & Governance 10
- IssueBiodiversity litigation against corporations and governments1 trends · 0 signals
- IssueFragmented and contested governance of the seabed1 trends · 3 signals
- SignalHigh Seas Treaty entered into force in January 2026
- IssueInternational environmental regimes moving toward boundary-based governance0 trends · 3 signals
- SignalKunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework being implemented
- SignalOver 40 states call for a deep-sea mining moratorium
- SignalTrump Administration Pauses Big Bend National Park Border Wall Construction After Bipartisan Backlash
- SignalUK pledges over 200 million pounds on deforestation and 100 million to the World Bank
- SignalUN Global Plastics Treaty negotiations
- IssueUnequal access to clean environments prompting litigation1 trends · 0 signals
Cities & Housing 3
- TrendDevelopers are designing projects around the land's ecology instead of clearing it first2 signals
- IssueDiversifying and multi-layered land use under concentration and depopulation0 trends · 0 signals
- IssueTrade-off between urban agglomeration gains and rural hollowing out1 trends · 1 signals
Welfare & Health 11
- SignalA third of chemical structures unknown and 95 percent never measured
- SignalAir pollution named the greatest UK environmental public health threat
- IssueAir pollution raising chronic disease burden in older people1 trends · 0 signals
- SignalAntibiotics above safe thresholds in 6 million km of rivers
- SignalAvian influenza in US dairy cattle since 2024; year-round in Dutch wild birds since 2021
- IssueFlying blind on the Earth-system effects of chemicals and materials1 trends · 1 signals
- SignalGreen and blue space access could save the NHS 2.1 billion pounds a year
- SignalMeteorology-driven Causal Nowcasting of Fugitive Landfill Emissions Enables Proactive Public Health Response
- IssueNovel chemical mixtures and endocrine disruptors as new health challenges1 trends · 0 signals
- SignalPFAS found in human and animal blood worldwide
- TrendRising zoonotic spillover and viral zoonoses2 signals
AI & Computing 2
Bio & Health Tech 2
- IssueAquatic Breakthroughs1 trends · 0 signals
- IssueDesigner Cells1 trends · 0 signals
Energy & Climate Tech 3
- Signal37.5 percent of solar and wind projects delayed or cancelled amid environmental concerns and local opposition
- IssueEnergy for AI and AI for energy, including digital environmental impact assessment1 trends · 0 signals
- IssuePlanned siting to reconcile renewable expansion with nature conservation0 trends · 2 signals
Space & Mobility 3
- Signal140 million debris pieces and rising Kessler Syndrome risk
- Signal3,000 decommissioned satellites littering space
- IssueBiological fibres as a space-debris answer1 trends · 0 signals