Biodiversity, or biological diversity, is the variety of life on Earth. It’s a rich and wonderful fabric woven by millions of species, their interactions with each other, the communities they form, ...

Governments must dramatically raise ambitions at the upcoming meeting of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). Gland, Switzerland (2 December) – Faced with dramatic declines in nature, ...

Biodiversity is the diversity of all life on Earth, which includes diversity within and between species, as well as diversity of landscapes, regions, and habitats. It also includes the diversity of ...

Alexandre Antonelli is the director of science at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London, and professor of biodiversity at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Ximena Rueda is the dean and associate ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. A 1991 hypothesis suggested that deforestation at Centinela in western Ecuador caused the immediate extinction of dozens of plant species believed ...

Forests provide timber as well as many other ecosystem services. An important question is how measures to conserve ...

A study has found that the impact of climate change on an animal’s traits can begin much earlier than scientists previously thought – a discovery that could reshape how researchers and policymakers ...

Even large and conspicuous insects remain unknown to science. This is highlighted by a new study from the Natural History Museum Denmark, where researchers have discovered and described 61 new species ...

The earth is on the brink of a sixth extinction crisis, making it urgent to expand programs to conserve nature and its biodiversity, especially in tropical countries with the highest biodiversity. One ...

Biodiversity, the rich variety of life found on Earth, is vanishing. I’m a conservation scientist keen to monitor this loss to better understand where efforts to reverse it will be most effective. And ...