What to watch for at this year's UN Biodiversity Conference in Yerevan as the focus shifts from global commitments to ...

Biodiversity ecosystem services research just found ocean carbon sequestration is 22 times less studied than terrestrial ...

Forests provide timber as well as many other ecosystem services. An important question is how measures to conserve biodiversity affect the profitability of forest operations focused on wood production ...

The number of species does not increase evenly when going from local ecosystems to continental scales—a phenomenon ecologists have recognized for decades. Now, an international team of scientists, ...

Environmental genomics has focused mainly on prokaryotes, leaving microbial eukaryote diversity poorly understood. Using ~20,000 mitochondrial genomes from 3,400 lake metagenomes worldwide, this study ...

August 23, 2023 – Liz Willetts, visiting scholar and planetary health policy director in Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health’s Department of Environmental Health, co-authored a comment in The ...

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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 ...

The biogenic structures produced by termites, ants and earthworms provide key functions across global ecosystems 1, 2 . However, little is known about the drivers of the soil engineering effects ...

The European Commission has launched a new €230 million research and innovation call under Horizon Europe. Published on 2 ...

Malagasy institutions identify 425,000 km² of priority marine areas - 25% more than Madagascar's 30x30 target requires ...