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Endangered plants

A lament for the human race

Dr. Asaf Rosenthal
December 18, 2023
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Dr. Assaf Rosenthal quotes one of the participants following the climate conference in Dubai: "Humanity must stop using nature as a toilet", "Humanity has become a weapon of mass destruction".

Invasive species sponsored by humans are involved in 60% of plant and animal extinctions; The damage is estimated at about 423 billion dollars per year

Avi Blizovsky
September 6, 2023
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This is according to a report by the UN's IPBES committee, the equivalent of the IPCC that reports on the climate crisis

Will one Israeli plant save the world from starvation?

Angle - a news agency for science and the environment
May 17, 2022

A new study found that genes from an Israeli wild plant may help protect wheat from one of the biggest threats to its existence

The brain size of the animals determined the survival chances of the larger species

Avi Blizovsky
May 10, 2022
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This is according to an article published by researchers who examined the mass extinction of apes over the past tens of thousands of years. The researchers found that the brains of large extinct species were on average smaller than those of large species that survived * Their relatively high intelligence helps them deal with the main cause of extinction - human activity

New research: an increase in the level of nitrogen in the soil led to the extinction of about 20% of plant species

The Hebrew University
March 19, 2022

Researchers from the Hebrew University found that nitrogen pollution caused by human activities has a direct effect on the decline in the variety of species in about a hundred sites in the world, including Beit Govrin: "Not enough efforts have been made in Israel to gauge the severity of the problem"

How do you maintain living systems?

Dr. Asaf Rosenthal
September 7, 2021
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The climate crisis is followed by the collapse of many living systems in large areas of the earth. It is fitting that humanity acknowledges the damage done to humanity and the vital need to remedy its consequences