A large Amazon study suggests the most powerful conservation move may be protecting the forests that are already standing. Preventing damage from wildfires and logging delivered the greatest ...

The COVID-19 crisis has served as wake-up call to fix our deteriorating relationship with nature and has reaffirmed that biodiversity is fundamental for human health and critical for sustainable ...

Common Reed Phragmites australis, globally one of the mostly widely distributed wetland plants, is important for biodiversity and for humans. However, like most wetland plant communities, reedbed has ...

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HUMAN SOCIETIES depend on healthy ecosystems. People consume their products in the shape of fish, meat, crops, timber and fibres such as cotton and silk. Medicines may be directly harvested from the ...

Countries are gathering in an effort to stop a biodiversity collapse that scientists say could equal climate change as an existential crisis. By Catrin Einhorn As 20,000 government leaders, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. GrrlScientist writes about evolution, ecology, behavior and health. A newly published study finds that spending time in natural ...

Livestock farmers on Santa Cruz reported links between biodiversity decline, deforestation, and expanding livestock ...

As the world prepares for CBD COP17 in Armenia, the urgency to stem biodiversity loss has never been greater. Yet behind ...

The biodiversity credit market should stop trying to copy the carbon market’s method of reducing everything to one tradable unit, a new op-ed argues. Instead, these credits should be measured by how ...