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Twelve state and local ballot initiatives related to climate and conservation, totaling more than $18 billion, were approved by voters in the United States last week. The largest public funding measures were in California, where $10 billion was approved for climate priorities, including wildfire prevention, clean water and resilience; Suffolk County, N.Y., where $6 billion was approved for clean water; and Minnesota, where $2 billion was renewed for land and water conservation programs.

Biodiversity is declining more quickly within key protected areas than outside them, according to research that scientists say is a “wake-up call” to global leaders discussing how to stop nature loss at the United Nation's Cop16 talks. Nearly a quarter of the world’s most biodiversity-rich land is within protected areas, but the quality of these areas is declining faster than it is outside protected areas, according to the analysis by the Natural History Museum (NHM).

Although all ecosystems are affected by a changing climate, the impacts can take a while to appear. Changes in forest biodiversity, for example, are known to lag behind changes in a habitat's temperature and precipitation. Grasslands, on the other hand, are responding to climate change almost in real time, according to new research by the University of Michigan.

Representatives from the Fort Yuma Quechan Indian Tribe and the Pit River Nation used the 16th United Nations Conference on Biological Diversity, or CBD, in Cali, Colombia, to champion the creation of the Kw’tsán National Monument, the Chuckwalla National Monument, and the Sáttítla National Monument. The proposed move would protect around 1 million acres in California

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