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

Plants and animals across the world are struggling for many reasons, whether it's due to i nvasive species, pollution, or climate change. A lot of those reasons are caused by human activities. Within ...

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COP16 president and Colombia’s Minister of Environment Susana Muhamad will lead COP16 in Cali, Colombia, beginning on October 21, 2004. The focus is on preserving biodiversity, wildlife, and nature.

Commentaries are opinion pieces contributed by readers and newsmakers. VTDigger strives to publish a variety of views from a broad range of Vermonters. Commentaries give voice to community members and ...

Anthropogenic climate change and biodiversity loss are the most pressing issues for our planet. Carbon dioxide emissions in the atmosphere continue to rise due to the burning of fossil fuels and land ...

Could we store samples of Earth’s endangered biodiversity on the Moon for long-term preservation? This is what a recent study published in BioScience hopes to address as a team of researchers led by ...

For centuries, the Illinois Natural History Survey has worked to catalog and preserve the organisms that make up Illinois. The INHS maintains its mission to research the history and diversity of ...

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The maps show the spatial distribution of sites if a protected area was selected according to the distribution of (A) species, (B) ecosystems or (C) functional ecological groups. Map F shows how ...

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Plants and animals across the world are struggling for many reasons, whether it’s due to i nvasive species, pollution, or climate change. A lot of those reasons are caused by human activities. Within ...