The IPBES report from the UN warns the world that addressing the biodiversity, water, food, health, and climate change crises separately exacerbates each other. In the last 50 years, the world has ...
Dec. 30, 2024 — A new species of black, slender moray eel has chosen the road less traveled, thriving in dim and muddy river mouths, unlike most of its marine relatives. It is found across the ...
For more than 1,000 kilometres, from Kenya in the north to Mozambique in the south, the coastline of eastern Africa is ...
Planet Money buys a "biodiversity credit" and travels to the Andean cloud forest in Colombia — to see how these credits work, and if they can really help save threatened species.
The new report was the result of three years of work of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, or IPBES, an expert body that’s analogous to the United ...
Freshwater environments cover about 1% of Earth's surface while accounting for more than 10% of known species. Like many ...
a landmark international biodiversity science policy report found. Tackling biodiversity loss, climate change, water scarcity, food insecurity and health risks in isolation was not only ...
UN report highlights urgent societal changes needed to prevent biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse globally.
Researchers on an expedition in Peru have discovered 27 animal species new to science – among them a “blob-headed fish” and a type of semi-aquatic mouse.
Pesticide drift threatens biodiversity and food security while organic agriculture offers a holistic solution.