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 ...

Every living thing in our complex ecosystems is critical as they comprise the biodiversity that sustains our lives. But we humans have been tampering with the natural world for centuries. We’ve paved ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

44 percent of Earth's land area—some 64 million square kilometers (24.7 million square miles) requires conservation to safeguard biodiversity. Credit: Max Melesi on behalf of Koobi Carbon New research ...

The ocean, blanketing over 70% of the Earth’s surface, is estimated to be home to more than half of all life on our planet.