Safeguarding biodiversity is not simply an environmental concern but a foundational element of preventive and clinical care.

Study warns that humans may be driving Earth toward a sixth mass extinction. The research shows species loss, but the future ...

With healthy populations of animals that disperse seeds, tropical forests can absorb up to four times more carbon.

By Rhett Ayers Butler [( Long before humans built computers, nature built a better one. Razan Al Mubarak sees biodiversity as ...

Adding large swaths of “wild areas” to the current network of protected areas in order to protect half of the Earth doesn’t mean more species will be protected, or that a larger portion of species’ ...

The Earth is currently in the grips of a mass extinction crisis. Species are disappearing at a worryingly fast rate—in no small part thanks to human interference—resulting in the erosion of our planet ...

New research unveils 14 previously unknown marine species, offering fresh insight into life hidden in the ocean’s depths.

New findings indicate changes in soil biodiversity are driven by changes in plant cover and soil acidification during ecosystem development. A Virginia Tech professor was part of an international team ...

Modern ocean biodiversity, which is at its highest level ever, was achieved through long-term stability of the location of so-called biodiversity hotspots, regions of especially high numbers of ...

Sequencing the genomes of all plants, animals, fungi and other microbial life on Earth is a strategy to foster better understanding, management and restoration of biodiversity and ecosystem services.

If you think the best way to protect nature is to keep humans away from it, you’re not alone. Most people see the world’s ecosystems as existing separate from human society — something either ...