Beaver-created wetlands host more hoverflies and butterflies than other ponds, proving that nature’s own builders can restore ...

A new analysis published in the journal BioScience challenges conventional conservation approaches by demonstrating that ...

Discover the causes, impacts, and solutions to global biodiversity loss, and how conservation protects species and ecosystems ...

As tectonic plates clash and pull apart, sea levels change. This process has shaped marine biodiversity over time, a new study suggests. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

From boreal forests near the Arctic Circle to dense tropical jungles south of the Equator, Earth’s last primary forests — ...

At a time of unparalleled rates of biodiversity loss, a new interconnected system to monitor biodiversity around the world is needed to guide action quickly enough to target conservation efforts to ...

A recent study published in Science found that adult trees in tropical forests are subject to forces resulting in greater distancing between adults of the same species than would otherwise naturally ...

One of the major realizations of the Anthropocene era has been the importance of biodiversity for the functioning of the ...

Top panel shows reconstructed sediment fluxes to the oceans vs diversity of marine animals. Bottom panel shows sediment cover in continental regions vs the long-term trend in land-plant diversity.

By Rhett Ayers Butler [( For decades, biologists have warned that humanity is precipitating a sixth mass extinction. By some ...

Almost a third of the Earth will need to be protected by 2030 and pollution cut by half to save our remaining wildlife, as we enter the planet's sixth era of mass extinction, according to a United ...