Tropical forests lose species due to humans, even inside protected areas. Scientists found that forests near people have ...

Scientists used aircraft and satellites to track biodiversity, helping improve conservation and space research.

Biodiversity, the variety of life on Earth, is in crisis. From bees in Colorado to Hawaiian honeycreepers and Australian bushfires, climate change and human activity are pushing species to extinction ...

An ambitious, multinational research project co-led by the University at Buffalo has demonstrated that Earth's biodiversity ...

Tropical forests are massive biodiversity storehouses. While these rich swathes of land constitute less than one-tenth of Earth’s surface, they harbor more than 60% of known species. Among them is a ...

The variability among living organisms on the earth, including the variability within and between species and within and between ecosystems. Biological diversity, often shortened to biodiversity, is ...

Feb. 7, 2025 — New research using publicly-shared DNA barcodes and citizen science images have provided new evidence on the establishment and spread of a biological control agent used for the ...

As Down to Earth enters its fourth year, the urgency surrounding the global biodiversity crisis has never been more apparent. When we launched this project in 2021, our mission was clear ...

On this week's episode: asteriod Bennu has building blocks of life, how polar bears keep ice off their fur, a dog discovers a ...

After you take action, share your favorite alerts (or the whole page) to help spread the word about saving the world’s biodiversity ... for about 97 percent of the total species of animals on Earth [9 ...

Earth is changing quickly in response to human activities. Biodiversity loss is one of the clearest warning signs that we are facing a planetary emergency. An estimated USD$44 trillion of economic ...