biodiversity

Earth Day is April 22. How earth-friendly are your landscape maintenance practices? You can make your landscape a friendlier place through a few small changes. All of the plants in ...

From curing strawberry diseases to removing carbon from the atmosphere, seaweed is much more than a nutritious side ...

Countries’ delegates participating in the COP15 conference in Montreal have reached a deal on Dec. 19 to strengthen ...

Thousands of years ago, there existed only naked moraine ridges and barren snow water dales in the area ...

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is headed to Southeast Asia and North Africa this month, but he won't be ...

Australian scientists have named and described more than 100 new species, including an ant that protects butterfly larvae, ...

Each year, the California Academy of Sciences’ renowned BigPicture Photography Competition celebrates some of the world’s best photographers and ...

Part One of the United Nations’ Biodiversity Conference is taking place this week in the city of Kunming ...

Eating organic isn’t a fad. In fact, a 2019 report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture stated that sales ...

China’s agricultural and fishery authorities in 2003 began imposing an annual three-month fishing ban in the Yangtze River ...

Humans have killed about 60 percent of animals, including mammals, fish, birds, and reptiles, on the planet since ...

When you cut and burn a tropical forest, you're left with a barren plain of cracked red mud, ...

Behind concrete doors on an uninhabited island in Norway, hundreds of millions of frozen seeds are waiting for ...

A new study urges scientists to move their focus from species extinction to species rarity in order to ...

A diverse range of human societies have been protecting land and sea resources for centuries—without any outside conservation ...

The news is full of announcements about newly discovered forms of life.

As California wildfires burn tree canopies and forest floors, plants commonly found in more southern areas of the ...

Beginning in the 1880s, coastal dunes in the United States were planted with European beachgrass in an attempt ...

Today, many zoos promote the protection of biodiversity as a significant part of their mission. As conservation "arks" ...

What to do about invasive species, which are having a growing and generally detrimental effect on Europe’s environment ...

A greater level of fertilization is reducing grassland diversity globally, a new study has found.

Artists and writers rally to save a 25-acre parcel of old forest in Langley B.C.

An iridescent blue tarantula, a sneezing monkey, and a teensy attack wasp are among the top 10 new ...

Being exposed to more parasite species could protect organisms from certain diseases, with more benign pathogens outcompeting virulent ...

Areas where endangered species are concentrated also tend to be home to numerous endangered languages.

Some large herbivorous dinosaurs were already on their way out before the alleged asteroid strike that ended the ...

Governments need to address the Earth’s environmental challenges or humanity will face an unprecedented disaster, scientists said.