{"id":428577,"date":"2026-04-22T12:56:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T07:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/?p=428577"},"modified":"2026-04-22T12:56:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T07:11:42","slug":"world-marks-mother-earth-day-amid-rising-climate-and-biodiversity-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/2026\/04\/22\/428577.html","title":{"rendered":"World marks Mother Earth Day amid rising climate and biodiversity crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"886\" src=\"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/04\/earth-1024x886.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-428578\" srcset=\"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/04\/earth-1024x886.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/04\/earth-300x259.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/04\/earth-768x664.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/04\/earth-1536x1328.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/04\/earth.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Kathmandu, April 22:<\/strong> International Mother Earth Day is being observed across the world today with renewed calls for urgent collective action to protect the planet and ensure a sustainable future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Observed every year on April 22 since 2009 following a United Nations resolution, the day highlights the need to restore ecological balance and strengthen environmental protection efforts at a global scale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The United Nations has warned that environmental degradation is accelerating at an alarming rate. Oceans are increasingly polluted with plastics and becoming more acidic, while extreme weather events such as heatwaves, wildfires, floods, and landslides are affecting millions of people worldwide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to UN estimates, nearly 10 million hectares of forest are lost every year, contributing significantly to biodiversity loss and climate instability. Environmental experts also caution that around one million species of plants and animals are currently at risk of extinction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Specialists say that climate change, deforestation, land-use changes, intensive agriculture, livestock expansion, and illegal wildlife trade are among the key drivers accelerating ecological damage. These pressures are weakening ecosystems that naturally protect human populations from diseases and environmental shocks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Experts further emphasize that healthy ecosystems play a critical role in maintaining biological diversity and limiting the spread of pathogens. The degradation of these systems, they warn, increases vulnerability to both environmental and public health crises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Environmentalists have stressed that restoring damaged ecosystems is essential not only for nature conservation but also for achieving broader global goals, including poverty reduction, climate change mitigation, and preventing mass extinction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As the world marks the day, calls continue to grow for stronger global cooperation, policy action, and local-level initiatives to protect the Earth\u2019s fragile environment for future generations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu, April 22: International Mother Earth Day is being observed across the world today with renewed calls for urgent collective action to protect the planet and ensure a sustainable future. Observed every year on April 22 since 2009 following a United Nations resolution, the day highlights the need to restore ecological balance and strengthen environmental &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":428578,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,8,3,6,5,2],"tags":[],"reporter":[],"class_list":["post-428577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-administration","category-en-cover","category-english","category-en-featured","category-top-stories","category-top-stories-main"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428577"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428577"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":428580,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428577\/revisions\/428580"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428577"},{"taxonomy":"reporter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reporter?post=428577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}