SINGAPORE, Jan 17 (Reuters) - A landmark global treaty to safeguard biodiversity in the high seas came into effect on Saturday, providing countries with a legally binding framework to tackle threats ...

Fifteen years ago, Yale scientists launched a digital platform called “Map of Life,” an initiative to monitor changes in global species populations and support practitioners with robust conservation ...

It’s a great paradox that the sector that relies the most on biodiversity, agriculture, is also the greatest threat to the world’s most fragile ecosystems. The question isn’t how to just minimize the ...

With healthy populations of animals that disperse seeds, tropical forests can absorb up to four times more carbon. A lot of attention has been paid to how climate change can reduce biodiversity. Now ...

Vora is a practicing physician, senior adviser for One Health at Conservation International, and executive director of the Preventing Pandemics at the Source Coalition. Walzer is a wildlife ...

It is hard to overstate the scale of the biodiversity crisis. Extinction rates are estimated to be 100–1,000 times the natural background rate, threatening up to a million species. Vertebrate wildlife ...

Each species represents a unique library of evolutionary wisdom, encoded in DNA and refined over millions of years. In a new commentary prior to the International Union for Conservation of Nature ...

We begin with moth genitalia. Joe Harkness was planning to write a book about “niche nature interests”: ecologists, naturalists and conservationists with obscure passions for woodlice, or taxidermy, ...

Biodiversity is important in every ecosystem. Research has shown having a richer diversity of plant and animal species bolsters ecosystem functioning and stability, making habitats more resilient to ...

In the past, biodiversity loss was often framed as a philanthropic or compliance-related issue — an add-on to corporate responsibility initiatives. Today, that framing is dangerously outdated.