{"id":11574,"date":"2020-11-13T09:37:39","date_gmt":"2020-11-13T06:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=11574"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:31:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:31:19","slug":"23-of-earths-natural-habitats-could-be-gone-by-2100-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2020\/11\/13\/23-of-earths-natural-habitats-could-be-gone-by-2100-study-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"23% of earth&#8217;s natural habitats could be gone by 2100, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Climate change and global\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecowatch.com\/tag\/food\">food<\/a>\u00a0demand could drive a startling loss of up to 23 percent of all natural habitat ranges in the next 80 years, according to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2020\/11\/201106093027.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">new findings<\/a>\u00a0published in\u00a0Nature Communications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Habitat loss could accelerate to a level that brings about rapid extinctions of already vulnerable species. Shrinking ranges for mammals, amphibians and birds already account for an 18 percent loss of previous natural ranges, the study found, with a jump expected to reach 23 percent by this century&#8217;s end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Global food demand currently fuels agricultural sectors to increase land use, moving into habitats previously untouched. What results \u2014\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecowatch.com\/tag\/deforestation\">deforestation<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 leaves more carbon dioxide in the air, increasing greenhouse gas emissions, the main driver of climate change. In the U.S. alone, agriculture-related emissions measure\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ers.usda.gov\/topics\/natural-resources-environment\/climate-change\/#:~:text=Agriculture%20and%20forestry%20together%20are,largest%20contributor%20to%20climate%20change.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">11.6 percent<\/a>\u00a0of the world&#8217;s greenhouse gas emissions, which include carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecowatch.com\/habitat-loss-biodiversity-2648801475.html?rebelltitem=1#rebelltitem1\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Climate change and global\u00a0food\u00a0demand could drive a startling loss of up to 23 percent of all natural habitat ranges in the next 80 years, according to\u00a0new findings\u00a0published in\u00a0Nature Communications. Habitat&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11575,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}