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Humanity Rises as Wildlife Recedes: Two Studies Show the Extent of Human Domination over Nature

27.10.2025

Environment, Energy, Climate

Quantifying wildlife reveals human impact – human movement is 40 times greater than that of all land animals combined; livestock biomass up 400%...

Heavy imbalance: The biomass of humans, livestock, pets and wild mammals (Illustration: Itai Raveh)

The Weight of Responsibility: Biomass of Livestock Dwarfs That of Wild Mammals

27.02.2023

Nutrition, Environment, Plants and Agriculture, Climate

Wild land mammals weigh less than 10 percent of the combined weight of humans and are outweighed by cattle and other domesticated mammals by a...

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Answering a Question That Has Bugged Ecologists for Decades

03.02.2023

Environment, Plants and Agriculture, Climate

Researchers have produced the first global estimate of the combined weight of all land insects and related arthropods

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