Relying on a handful of crops makes the entire system more vulnerable to pests, disease, and climate shocks. By cultivating a more biodiverse food system, we can really get ahead of food insecurity.

The Millennium Seed Bank at the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew marks its 25th anniversary. It stores over 2.5 billion wild plant ...

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

The world’s largest network of environmental groups approved the exploration of genetic engineering tools to aid in the ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. When it smashed into Earth "with the energy of about 8 billion times a World War II-era nuclear ...

A frog croaks from a walking trail. A hiker snaps a photo and uploads it to iNaturalist. That single act—one person, one amphibian and one click—feeds into a growing global dataset that scientists now ...

Expanding efforts to measure, monitor and protect soil biodiversity around the world will intensify further with the establishment of the Global Soil Biodiversity Observatory, to be led by the Food ...

A new global atlas of underground fungi suggests that some surprising biodiversity hot spots lie hidden beneath our feet. By Emily Anthes The world’s biological riches are not evenly distributed.

Festus Adegbola, a UB PhD student who is using remote-sensing technology to monitor biodiversity from the air, has been awarded the Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology ...

Russell has a PhD in the history of medicine, violence, and colonialism. His research has explored topics including ethics, science governance, and medical involvement in violent contexts. Russell has ...

Andy G Howe receives funding from the Australian Government, Queensland Government and Forest & Wood Products Australia. Since 2019, he is active with CSIRO Stem Professionals in Schools. Erinn ...

Large, undisturbed forests are better for harboring biodiversity than fragmented landscapes, according to recent research. Ecologists agree that habitat loss and the fragmentation of forests reduces ...