In October, world leaders will gather at the United Nations Biodiversity Conference in Cali, Colombia, to put an ambitious plan to halt human-induced species extinction into action. The conference, ...

At first blush, the idea of biodiversity seems simple enough. It is essentially the variety of all life on Earth. But making sense of biodiversity in a way that can help us halt or even reverse its ...

Outside her cabin in northern Belize, Elizabeth Clare, a biodiversity scientist at York University, walks along a path. Everywhere she looks, it's teeming with life. "There's hibiscus flowers over ...

“Danger: Electric Fishing in Progress,” reads the bright yellow sign on the bank of the River Frome in southwest England. Even at its widest point just outside the city of Bristol, before it joins up ...

Diversity is a much discussed and debated topic, and biologists have observed and studied various aspects of natural diversity for quite some time. The term “biodiversity” was widely popularized in ...

BRIEFING: Pricing biodiversity in carbon markets can boost nature tech revenues amid sector headwinds; BRIEFING: Airlines face CORSIA bottleneck as government approv ...

The intensification of existing farmland can sometimes be more harmful to local biodiversity than expanding the area covered by agricultural land, finds a new study led by University College London ...

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The rapid loss of species we are seeing today is estimated by experts to be between 1,000 and 10,000 times higher than the natural extinction rate. That staggering figure alone should make anyone ...

Teri Orr, a physiological ecologist at New Mexico State University, inspects the base of a guanacaste tree in Belize where she intends to trap bats later in the night. Scientists say they've developed ...

Scientists have found a way to sample DNA out of the air on a large scale — making it possible to one day track the health and well being of all... Scientists want to track the world's biodiversity ...