The search for life on Earth is speeding up, not slowing down. Scientists are now identifying more than 16,000 new species ...

Science Friday is an official partner of Citizen Science Month for April 2023! We invite your to celebrate biodiversity with opportunities to do science, find community, and explore the great outdoors ...

In a study published in Science Advances on December 19, researchers from Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) of ...

Multiple disciplines across ecology, evolution, and conservation biology provide fundamental knowledge needed to understand and address the global crisis of biodiversity loss. Progress toward ...

At the University of Arizona, a new lab is giving scientists the tools to predict the future of life on Earth. The Data ...

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), in collaboration with the Southern Marine Science and Engineering ...

Biodiversity's ongoing global decline has prompted policies to protect and restore habitats to minimize animal and plant extinctions. However, biodiversity forecasts used to inform these policies are ...

In the past, scientists thought of the deep ocean as a cold, dead place. While the region—generally considered to be everything between 200 and 11,000 meters in depth—is undoubtedly cold, it actually ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Biodiversity has been defined as one of nine planetary boundaries that help regulate the planet’s operating system. But humanity is crossing those ...

PROTECTING THE biological, ecological and genetic diversity that sustains life on Earth is the mission of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity. But progress has been slow, to put it ...

Some big numbers from nature made news in 2019. They were enough of a shock to get people talking about the dwindling diversity of plants, animals and other life on Earth, and what to do about it.