The biogenic structures produced by termites, ants and earthworms provide key functions across global ecosystems 1, 2 . However, little is known about the drivers of the soil engineering effects ...

(Corrects figure in paragraph 7 to 12%, not 13%, adds name of NGO in paragraph 3) SINGAPORE, Sept 23 (Reuters) - Governments ...

The number of species does not increase evenly when going from local ecosystems to continental scales—a phenomenon ecologists have recognized for decades. Now, an international team of scientists, ...

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 ...

August 23, 2023 – Liz Willetts, visiting scholar and planetary health policy director in Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health’s Department of Environmental Health, co-authored a comment in The ...

Our understanding of the biodiversity on Earth is unbalanced and biased towards certain species within the Tree of Life, according to a new study. The research, published as a Reviewed Preprint in ...

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 ...

MANILA, Philippines — The Philippines remains committed to the global “30×30” goal of conserving at least 30 percent of Earth ...

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

The world may have enough money to protect nature. The bigger problem is that too much of it still goes to activities that destroy it.

The Western Cape is expected to face a fiery summer as El Niño brings dry, hot conditions and a heightened wildfire risk ...