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

Earth's vast oceanic biodiversity remains largely unexplored, with only a fraction of an estimated two million total living ...

While many of the fish, cetaceans and other more conspicuous or “charismatic” animals have been well studied, a whole world ...

Bishop Museum, the State of Hawaiʻi Museum of Natural and Cultural History, and the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance are ...

Biodiversity has been an issue in the news of late. What is it and why is it important? Biodiversity refers to the variety of life. Where biodiversity is high, there exists many different types of ...

Climate change is rapidly altering our environment—and posing major challenges for many animal species. Whether they can ...

A new study published in PNAS shows that tree diversity consistently promotes productivity through fostering greater canopy ...

A survey of Colombian birdlife, which evolved over more than a decade into the world’s largest-ever ornithological study, has ...

A new study shows for the first time that biological invasions don't change ecosystems in a single, uniform way. Some impacts ...

LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) — How healthy is the city of Los Angeles' environment? A new list of charismatic umbrella indicator species was released this week to give city officials a way to track any changes ...

Humans have wiped out hundreds of species — with many more on the brink or experiencing large declines in population. Some scientists have argued that we have entered a “sixth mass extinction” event ...