The United Nations biodiversity summit, known as COP16, comes amid growing concerns over plummeting populations of plants and animals, and damage to the habitats that sustain life on earth ...

Biological diversity, often shortened to biodiversity, is the variation of life at all levels of biological organization, referring not only to the sum total of life forms across an area, but also to ...

Climate change and other human-driven (anthropogenic) environmental changes will continue to cause biodiversity loss in the coming decades (Sala et al. 2000), in addition to the high rates of ...

So why should we be concerned about current extinction rates and conserving biodiversity? Why should we be concerned about this loss of biodiversity? The answer lies in the fact that, for the ...

Now, world leaders are promising action to tackle the problem. But will it be enough? Biodiversity is the variety of all living things on Earth, and how they fit together in the web of life ...

An international team of scientists has made a discovery that could reshape our understanding of how global biodiversity evolved. By reconstructing the evolution of species over the past 45 ...

Please note that the Biodiversity Trends Explorer is no longer live. The BTE data was generated in 2021. Because we want to provide the latest and most accurate models available, we will be removing ...

The EU and its member states are committed to setting biodiversity on the road to recovery by 2030. The EU biodiversity strategy for 2030 is the cornerstone of nature protection in the EU and is a key ...

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with higher biodiversity have fewer species that depend on just one other for food, shelter and maintaining their environment. With the example above, puffins could also eat molluscs and worms.

We often refer to biodiversity by another name - nature. It is the rich variety of all life on Earth along with the places and spaces they call home - forests, grasslands, oceans, rivers and ...