Amid an ongoing climate crisis, a biodiversity crisis also looms, as many countries race to save their species and habitats. Human interaction and over development are amongst the major contributors ...

Plants and animals do not respect legal boundaries, oblivious to the policies that govern different jurisdictions. A new Stanford-led study highlights how policies in forestry, agriculture, and other ...

Services provided by soils are vital for the well being of humans. The biodiversity-ecosystem services relationship is a hot topic in science but to what extent is it evident in soils? Aa Aa Aa Humans ...

Life has existed on Earth for over 3.5 billion years. Over 95% of the species that ever existed have gone extinct. So why should we be concerned about current extinction rates and conserving ...

Biodiversity does matter! That is according to young winners of the 2024 Columban Schools Competition in Britain who recently submitted image and print entries on the theme “Biodiversity Matters”. And ...

The way people value and perceive biodiversity influences behaviour at the level of the individual, institutions and whole societies. More work is needed to understand the diversity of values that ...

The framework is being developed through a wide consultative process undertaken by the UN’s Convention on Biological Diversity, to meet its three objectives: to conserve biodiversity, meet people’s ...

Coimbatore: S Akash, a school student who participated in the nature trail for children along Singanallur lake on Sunday morning, was eager to learn about plants and was bombarding a scientist in the ...

David Obura receives funding from the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad) that has supported some of this work. He is affiliated with Future Earth and the Earth Commission. A ...