There are around 60,000 known tree species in the world, and they can do amazing things: store carbon, provide people with ...

Biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation are among the most pressing challenges of our time. As changing land-use, climate change and pollution place increasing pressure on species and habitats, ...

When we spend time in nature, we instinctively feel its value. To quantify that value, the concept of “natural capital” has been developed so that organizations can measure its impact and thus make ...

New research by Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego and Reef Environmental Education Foundation (REEF) has found that citizen science initiatives could be one of the keys to unlocking ...

Measurements and data collected from space can be used to better understand life on Earth. An ambitious, multinational research project has demonstrated that Earth's biodiversity can be monitored and ...

The next United Nations Biodiversity Conference, which is to be held from 21 October to 1 November 2024, will encompass the Sixteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on ...

For those interested in helping track various amphibian populations in the Rocky Mountain region, the University of Wyoming’s Biodiversity Institute will host a training session for community ...

Historically, an estimated 0.1% of all species go extinct each year. That may not sound like a lot, but considering that there are 1.7 million species that have been scientifically identified so far, ...

When I, Erik Meijaard, worked as a wildlife consultant for a timber concession in Borneo, I often chatted with the logging truck drivers—and quickly realized that some of them knew far more about ...

Nine projects in Southend have been given more than £5,000 by Veolia and Southend Council to boost biodiversity. The funding is part of Veolia's Sustainability Fund, which has supported 27 projects ...