PARIS - Climate change and biodiversity loss are laying bare our dependence on the natural world for everything from the food we eat to the air we breathe.
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AFP, PARIS
Nature has shown solutions to problems this year, inspiring scientific discovery in a host of unexpected ways.
Nature is “a source of inspiration for science, because it has figured out the way Earth supports life,” Lex Amore from the Biomimicry Institute said.
“It is imperative we look to the biological blueprints that have been successful over millennia to launch groundbreaking ideas faster,” she said.
A worker looks at durians for sale at a shop in Kuala Lumpur on July 8.
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From forests to the depths of the oceans, there is “so much intelligence” to tap into in the natural world, Amore said.