Global terrestrial biodiversity hotspots are among the most ecologically important regions on Earth. These 36 regions, which ...

New study finds over a quarter of species in the world’s most fragile ecosystems wiped out, India’s Western Ghats among ...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — An annual United Nations conference on biodiversity that ran out of time last year will resume its work Tuesday in Rome with money at the top of the agenda. That is, how to ...

Tiny soil animals survive harsh desert conditions, revealing hidden life and climate driven survival strategies underground.

One proposal is “biodiversity offsets.” A widely cited 2013 article by Joseph Bull and coworkers defines these as follows: ...

Razan Al Mubarak, president of the International Union for Conservation of Nature, describes biodiversity as the planet’s original information network—an archive of genetic data refined over billions ...

From policy to practice, Kenya’s updated biodiversity strategy shows how countries can align national action with the Global ...

As we reflect on environmental stewardship this week, the accelerating loss of biodiversity remains one of the most critical challenges facing our planet. Healthy ecosystems provide essential services ...

The global food system relies heavily on pesticides to protect crops from pests, diseases, and weeds. But this dependence comes at a cost: declining biodiversity, soil degradation, collapsing insect ...

Biodiversity—the vast variety of life on Earth—forms the foundation of healthy ecosystems, stable climates, and resilient societies. From microscopic organisms to towering forests and complex animal ...

How does biodiversity loss impact tropical forests’ carbon absorption? This is what a recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences hopes to address as a team of ...