Positive action by businesses and financial institutions is essential in the transformation to a just and sustainable economic system, according the new Business and Biodiversity assessment by from ...

From wildlife movement research to fire ecology, M.S. in Biodiversity Data Analytics lecturer Jay M. Schoen explains how ...

In October, world leaders will gather at the United Nations Biodiversity Conference in Cali, Colombia, to put an ambitious plan to halt human-induced species extinction into action. The conference, ...

Diverse ecosystems support the web of life and in the process, provide food, water, medicine and materials for humanity. But the butterfly effect tells us all things are connected. So, when ...

Scientists advocate for change to promote standardized practices in the field -- a practice that has been missing from the science. Assessing wildlife populations, as well as understanding the ...

Diversity is a much discussed and debated topic, and biologists have observed and studied various aspects of natural diversity for quite some time. The term “biodiversity” was widely popularized in ...

At first blush, the idea of biodiversity seems simple enough. It is essentially the variety of all life on Earth. But making sense of biodiversity in a way that can help us halt or even reverse its ...

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Measuring biodiversity Scientists are developing a process to measure changes in global biodiversity, inspired by that used to measure global climate change. A team of international researchers report ...

Existing data are too biased to provide a reliable picture of the global average of local species richness trends. Existing data are too biased to provide a reliable picture of the global average of ...

Understanding the quantity of organisms and how they’re changing over time is crucial to understand and preserve the present state of flora and fauna. Human actions influence the success and how ...