The measurement of biodiversity is complex and has a qualitative as well as a quantitative aspect. If a species is genetically unique — if, for instance, it's far out on a remote arm of the ...

Menno Schilthuizen is a Dutch evolutionary biologist, ecologist, and permanent research scientist at Naturalis Biodiversity ...

Why was the recent “biodiversity COP” so timely? It was important because there's now a recognition that biodiversity loss is happening at an extreme rate, something on a planetary scale that we haven ...

The largest biodiversity time-series database on the planet—created by the University of St Andrews—has had a major new release. The BioTIME database offers unprecedented insight into how ...

The Wiki Biodiversity Project has since grown into an active global community that leverages crowd-sourced knowledge from platforms like iNaturalist. “We have succeeded in setting the workflow.

The U.S. has good biodiversity, though Americans tend to consume a select few species; only 10 species account for up to 90% of fish that Americans eat, depending on the year.

How Biodiversity Risk Affects Three Model Portfolios In our initial study , we developed three model portfolios using Sustainalytics ESG Risk Ratings and studied returns between Jan. 1, 2019, and ...

The success or failure of this plan for halting biodiversity loss will depend on whether countries can be made more accountable to their commitments. Adopting a new framework is just the first step.

As negotiators gather for the COP15 biodiversity summit, a new UN study says “biocredits” may help boost conservation financing. Critics warn they might enable greenwashing.

Agricultural biodiversity, or agrobiodiversity, is the foundation of the agricultural systems that feed our world. As agrobiodiversity loss accelerates and food production faces rising global threats, ...

Urban biodiversity is affected by human-designed features of public squares. Nature Cities , 2024; 1 (10): 706 DOI: 10.1038/s44284-024-00126-5 Cite This Page : ...

Delegates at global biodiversity talks in Rome agreed on a framework for monitoring environmental commitments and other measures. By Catrin Einhorn While the Trump administration in Washington was ...