Biodiversity patterns reflect the distribution and variety of life across Earth’s surface, ranging from local species assemblages to global biomes. Classic gradients such as the increase in species ...

Biodiversity exhibits consistent patterns across spatial and environmental gradients, with species richness generally peaking in the tropics and declining towards higher latitudes. Within these broad ...

New research by the University of Oxford and the Stockholm Resilience Centre at Stockholm University has revealed that most ...

Countries have made insufficient progress on international goals designed to halt a catastrophic slide, a new report found. By Catrin Einhorn The world is failing to address a catastrophic ...

The COVID-19 crisis has served as wake-up call to fix our deteriorating relationship with nature and has reaffirmed that biodiversity is fundamental for human health and critical for sustainable ...

2026年6月8日，在世界海洋日（World Oceans Day）当天，联合国正式发布《第三次世界海洋评估》（Third World Ocean Assessment，简称WOA III）。据悉，这份历时五年完成的全球海洋综合评估报告，汇集了来自86个国家、超过650名科学家的研究成果，是目前规模最大、覆盖最 ...

When extreme drought strikes, drier grasslands receive the greatest productivity benefit from biodiversity. By contrast, ...

CALI, Colombia 2 November 2024 — The 16th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP 16) was suspended in the morning of Nov. 2 but not before countries ...

Countries are gathering in an effort to stop a biodiversity collapse that scientists say could equal climate change as an existential crisis. By Catrin Einhorn As 20,000 government leaders, ...

Researchers say biodiversity compensation works best with long-term recovery, the right landscape setting, and enough land ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. GrrlScientist writes about evolution, ecology, behavior and health. A newly published study finds that spending time in natural ...

You may think biodiversity has been around forever, but the term was coined in the mid-1980s to bring attention to the ...