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Sustainable Engineering Depends on Biodiversity

Solutions to technical problems can be found in plants, animals, and microbes – but we’re destroying them before they’re recognized

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By UNDP Nature
December 8th, 2022
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Footnotes Text adapted from “How Sustainable Engineering Solutions Depend on Biodiversity” by Eric Chivian M.D., Gael McGill Ph.D., and Jeannie Park

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