{"id":36978,"date":"2021-12-20T09:00:44","date_gmt":"2021-12-20T16:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/osher\/?p=36978"},"modified":"2025-04-11T10:33:14","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T16:33:14","slug":"article-biodiversity-nature-by-another-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/osher\/blog\/2021\/12\/20\/article-biodiversity-nature-by-another-name\/","title":{"rendered":"Article: Biodiversity: Nature by Another Name"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Click to read: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.org\/en-us\/what-we-do\/our-insights\/perspectives\/biodiversity-crisis-nature-underpins-human-existence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Biodiversity: Nature by Another Name<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Biodiversity underpins every aspect of life on our planet, but it&#8217;s currently declining at an unprecedented rate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Learn more at <a href=\"http:\/\/nature.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">nature.org<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click to read: Biodiversity: Nature by Another Name Biodiversity underpins every aspect of life on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1946,"featured_media":37108,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1442],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-earth-sciences-life-sciences-and-environment"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.2 (Yoast SEO v28.2) - 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