IT’S past time to tell the truth about the state of the world’s coral reefs, the nurseries of tropical coastal fish stocks. They have become zombie ecosystems, neither dead nor truly alive i... Read more
Biodiversity is declining rapidly throughout the world. The challenges of conserving the world’s species are perhaps even larger than mitigating the negative effects of global c... Read more
Advances in genetics may change aspects of environmental policy in the future. Protecting endangered species is a legitimate goal for public policy. But we cannot expect that public p... Read more
Conservation is winning battles but losing the war. Embracing new technologies in energy and agriculture might change that. In the conservation and environmental communities, technolo... Read more
A growing acceptance of controversial strategies such as ‘triage’ The number of species recognized as endangered is ever increasing and a new study by a University of York academ... Read more
Airplanes link populations in an immediate way, which allows the transmission of microbes to occur even more quickly In his new book, award-winning biologist and author Nathan Wolfe examines... Read more
Zoologists at Oregon State University have discovered that a freshwater species of zooplankton will eat a fungal pathogen which is devastating amphibian populations around the world. This ti... Read more
The explosive growth of cities worldwide over the next two decades poses significant risks to people and the global environment, according to a meta-analysis published August 19 in PlosOne.... Read more
The oceans cover 71% of our planet, with over half with a depth greater than 3000 m. Although our knowledge is still very limited, we know that the deep ocean contains a diversity of habitat... Read more
The sharing of data is extremely limited Thousands of organizations around the world are working towards protection of ecosystems, yet the sharing of data is extremely limited and often loca... Read more
Image by inhuman tsar via Flickr The world will not halt the rate of reduction of biodiversity by 2010 SEEKING to alleviate poverty, reduce world hunger and protect biodiversity sounds, to y... Read more
Over 30,000 still images and video, as well as local information about changing biodiversity, have been uploaded to the Encyclopedia of Life via new tools that let the public contribute as n... Read more
Image by alles-schlumpf via Flickr As the international community focuses on climate change as the great crisis of our era, it is ignoring another looming problem: the global crisis in land... Read more
People often ask me, “Why should I care if a species goes extinct? It’s not essential to my daily life, is it?” Well, according to new research published December 2 in Natu... Read more
Cover via Amazon Organic foods are exploding in popularity. But fears of biotechnology—and a widespread mistrust of science—won’t help efforts to create a truly sustainable agriculture. When... Read more