Humans are having a highly detrimental impact on biodiversity worldwide. Not only is the number of species declining, but the composition of species communities is also changing. These are the ...

A new paper, the Ocean Species Discoveries (OSD), describes a ground-breaking experiment that united 25 independent taxonomists from ten countries. The initiative boasts the discovery of eleven new ...

In 1987, biologists captured the last free-flying condor to transfer it to captivity, and the largest flying North American ...

There are approximately 8.7 million species of plants, animals and other living beings around us that make up the biodiversity of planet Earth. Nearly 1 million of them face extinction in the coming ...

Biodiversity losses continue to upend the lives of billions of people whose future prosperity depends on countries taking ...

A virus sweeping through Asia’s wild pigs threatens not only wild and domestic pigs but also tigers, farms, food security and ...

Researchers at the University of Helsinki wanted to understand which is the dominant factor for species occurrence and ...

Through the federal Building Canada Act, “projects of national interest” are being fast-tracked while hundreds of major resource projects are already under construction or planned in the next decade.

Species 2000, the UK organisation behind the Catalogue of Life, formally closed on 5 May 2026 after transferring all data and ...

A new collaborative survey in the Italian Botanist documents dozens of new and confirmed records of algae, bryophytes, fungi ...

Researchers have found that during the Black Death, when a third of the population of Europe was wiped out, biodiversity fell ...