Scientists deploy all sorts of fancy metrics to determine how much biodiversity they find in a forest. The Shannon Diversity Index is based on the number of species and the size of their populations.

In the past few years, about a handful of companies have emerged with tests to measure a soil microbiome of fields, give a biodiversity index and help farmers understand the effects of inputs on soil ...

Combating the global extinction crisis is complex. We know that there are extinction solutions, but we are lacking data synthesis and analyses needed to identify the most effective solutions.

Today, the Natural History Museum, London, and Bloomberg announced a collaboration to make the Museum’s Biodiversity Intactness Index (BII) data available to the investment community for the first ...