Abstract
Biodiversity Biological communities, which provide critical services to humans, are greatly threatened by changes in land and sea use, direct exploitation of natural resources, climate change, and other threats. To understand what humanity is losing, we must appreciate how biodiversity contributes to human economies and culture. In an editorial, Lovejoy heralds a feat of data gathering and analysis: the first official report of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES). This comprehensive assessment of the world's ecosystems is bleak, but the report advocates for transformational change in environmental policy by illustrating what we as a planet have already lost and what more we stand to lose. Sci. Adv. 10.1126/sciadv.aax7492 (2019).
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