The variability among living organisms on the earth, including the variability within and between species and within and between ecosystems. Biological diversity, often shortened to biodiversity, is ...

Large, undisturbed forests are better for harboring biodiversity than fragmented landscapes, according to recent research. Ecologists agree that habitat loss and the fragmentation of forests reduces ...

PARIS — Some approaches to tackling global warming can have unintended knock-on consequences for nature and the protection of biodiversity, say scientists urging a more coordinated effort on ...

Plant and animal cells have similarities and differences and each have important roles to play in the biodiversity of the planet's ecosystem. Biodiversity and distribution Sampling helps us to ...

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.

This research demonstrates how the potential for enhancing natural biodiversity and developing new hybrids is greater than expected and will offer new ways for industry to generate new and exciting ...

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 ...

Key sources of biodiversity finance are shrinking or disappearing ... in conservation decisions “What was supposed to be a good Colombian telenovela in which people will actually bring the ...

“The common good — the environment ... Many developing countries are rich in biodiversity but poor economically, and three days of tense negotiations centered on whether a new fund would ...

Almost 200 nations have signed an ambitious agreement to halt and reverse biodiversity loss but none is on track to meet the crucial goal, our new research reveals. The agreement, known formally ...