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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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, ...

|Sustainable sites support biodiversity, defined as the variety of life forms within a given ecosystem, biome, or the entire earth. In your backyard, you can provide a diversity of vegetation that ...

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

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 ...