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

Humans evolved late in Earth history. While this timing inspired the conclusion that humanlike life is a cosmic improbability ...

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

Atascadero’s Charles Paddock Zoo has welcomed three cute new residents — a trio of young Mexican spider monkeys who have ...

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 ...

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 ...

Planting fast-growing crops, burning them, capturing the released CO2 and storing it: this is being discussed as a way to remove greenhouse gases from the atmosphere and limit global heating to 1.5 ...

Five sites across Saskatchewan have been officially recognized as nationally important sites for nature. Home to iconic and ...

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

Measurements and data collected from space can be used to better understand life on Earth. An ambitious, multinational research project has demonstrated that Earth's biodiversity can be monitored and ...

Using only fins, divers wild-harvest abalone off eastern Australia’s coast. The marine snail, known for its beautiful ...