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 ...

Conservation shifts harmful land use elsewhere, worsening biodiversity loss in more vulnerable regions globally.

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 ...

Nature’s Complex Tapestry Biodiversity is a term that encapsulates the variety of life on Earth, ranging from tiny ...

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 ...

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 ...

The US Fish and Wildlife Service, the nation’s only government agency dedicated to conserving plants and animals, has frozen ...

On this week's episode: asteriod Bennu has building blocks of life, how polar bears keep ice off their fur, a dog discovers a new species of truffle, defecating improves cognitive performance, and ...