2023年2月10日 · Find statistics and data trends about the environment, including data on the weather that helps interpret climate trends, greenhouse gas emissions caused by human activity, and conservation-related metrics such as land protections and species listed on the threatened and endangered species list. We visualize, explain and provide objective context using …

The federal government spent $35.1 billion on the environment and natural resources in FY 2023. This accounted for about 0.6% of the 2023 federal budget, and included conservation and land management, pollution control, and water maintenance.

2023年4月19日 · Cities, through initiatives such as BiodiverCities by 2030, are now taking on these challenges, understanding the potential of nature-based solutions as infrastructure, and making better use of their natural systems, such as urban forests and wetlands, for example, to tackle urban heat islands or better control floods.

2022年4月28日 · The federal government spent $40.9 billion in 2020, or 0.6% of all federal expenditures, on the environment and natural resources (not including spending on renewable energy). Most was spent on the Forest Service ($7 billion), transfers to state and local governments ($6.7 billion), and NOAA ($6.1 billion).

2024年3月4日 · Global natural resource consumption is predicted to increase by 60% by 2060, compared with 2020 levels, according to the United Nations Environment Programme's Global Resources Outlook, a report by the UN's International Resource Panel. That’s after material use grew more than three times over the past 50 years, it said.

2018年8月23日 · Every day new evidence of our unsustainable impact on the environment is emerging. The last five years have been the warmest five-year period on record, the Arctic warmed much faster than predicted and the UN estimates that in the last 10 years, climate-related disasters have caused $1.4 trillion worth of damage worldwide.

2020年1月7日 · In the natural world, we can find different types of ecological relationships, whether they are mutualistic relationships between species (win-win), commensual relationships (win-neutral), or parasitic relationships (win-lose) - although, even in nature, parasitic relationships can sometimes serve the long-term interests and the broader health ...

2020年5月22日 · Although some fear environmental regulation and the safeguarding of nature could threaten businesses, the “restoration economy” – the restoration of natural landscapes –provides more jobs in the United States than most of the extractives sector, with the potential to create even more.

6 天之前 · Track environmental efforts through stories from the World Economic Forum on preserving nature and restoring degraded ecosystems.

State and local governments spent $67.7 billion on the environment and natural resources in 2019. Combining bills that became public law, executive orders and presidential memoranda, and significant rulemaking by executive agencies, there were 81 federal actions on land, energy, and the environment in 2021.