Converting land in the Congo Basin, for example, would put many more species at risk than doing so in northern Europe due to the huge differences in biodiversity ... to-use, map-based metric ...

A new European Wetland Map shows Europe's peatlands, floodplains and coastal wetlands more comprehensively than ever before ...

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 ...