A study in Nature reveals that islands, covering just 5.3% of the planet's land, harbor 21% of the world's plant biodiversity ...

An international team of botanists finds no proof of extinctions in Centinela, but abundant evidence that Centinela's flora lives on in the scattered remaining fragments of coastal Ecuador's forests.

At the UN's COP15 summit on biodiversity in December 2022, countries reached an "historic" agreement to protect 30% of ...

Biodiversity is the variety of all life on Earth - animals, plants, fungi and micro-organisms like bacteria. Animals and plants provide humans with everything necessary for survival - including ...

On the eve of the COP16 biodiversity summit, set for October 21 to November 1 in Cali, Colombia, Amnesty International called Thursday for states to strengthen human rights protection in the Global ...

Fungi are the “firmament of life on Earth,” experts say but don’t get equivalent protections of plants and animals ...

Thousands of delegates from around the world are descending on Colombia for a summit on halting humankind's rapacious ...

The whole world will be watching to see how the EU delivers on its global commitments, Greenpeace says.View on euronews ...

Bird Conservation in Colombia The tropical forests of Chocó, Colombia, are dense and alive. A place where mist often hangs in ...

More than a dozen of the world’s leading ocean scientific, philanthropic, and other stakeholder organizations, led by ...

Study reveals islands house one-third of global plant species. Urgent conservation needed for these unique ecosystems.

Scientists from the University of Sydney are using AI to rewrite our understanding of virology biodiversity — it’s a giant ...