United Nations conference on biodiversity that ran out of time last year will resume its work Tuesday in Rome with money at ...

We have studied about twenty of these environmental variables and then been able to correlate them with biodiversity," says ...

The biodiversity-ecosystem services relationship ... which is currently estimated to be 100 to 1000 times higher than average background rates (May 2010). How will losses of species affect the ...

While the restoration of natural areas is high on political agendas, a comprehensive new study from the University of Copenhagen shows that – after more than two decades – biodiversity growth has ...

with higher biodiversity have fewer species that depend on just one other for food, shelter and maintaining their environment. With the example above, puffins could also eat molluscs and worms.

"WWF's latest Living Planet Report shows that monitored vertebrate populations have shrunk by an average of 73% since 1970," says Becky Chaplin-Kramer, WWF Global Biodiversity Lead Scientist and ...

Biodiversity loss has accelerated at an alarming rate in recent decades, driven largely by human activities such as clearing forests to grow crops or harvest timber.  While countries often degrade ...

Some efforts to preserve or rewild natural habitats are shifting harmful land use to other parts of the world -- and this could drive an even steeper decline in the planet's species, according to a ...

Exploratory analysis by the team suggests that reclaiming typical UK cropland for nature may be five times more damaging for global biodiversity than the benefit it provides local species ...