"Most of the species are plants," said Jesse Leddick, assistant director of Natural Heritage & Endangered Species Program in ...

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 ...

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 ...

In a high-stakes, 48-hour challenge in the Amazon, Ari Grele deployed his "Bugnet" technology to map biodiversity ...

WASHINGTON— The Center for Biological Diversity has developed new maps that identify areas where limiting pesticide use, and other conservation measures, are critically needed to protect 50 threatened ...

NEW ORLEANS—As the result of a lawsuit by the Center for Biological Diversity and Healthy Gulf, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has agreed to decide on Endangered Species Act protection for ...