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While some invasive animals have breached Antarctica, the continent is still pristine. Our challenge is keeping it that way.
Efforts to preserve biodiversity and slow climate change make natural bedfellows.
Charles Darwin’s ideas about diversity of plants growing together is now inspiring researchers create healthier forests.
Diverting water to a hydroelectric dam might seem eco-friendly, but the devastating consequences to local ecosystems cannot be ignored.
Australia’s southwest is a biodiversity hotspot - and it’s also a climate change hotspot. Something has to give.
Warm autumn weather has produced dull leaf colors across the eastern US this year, but climate change isn’t the only way that humans have altered trees’ fall displays.
The 15th UN biodiversity conference recently wrapped up the online portion of negotiations.
Half of all flowering plants mostly or completely rely on animal pollinators to make seeds. A decline in pollinators could cause major disruptions in natural ecosystems.
We analysed the legal systems regulating the wildlife trade in China. Here’s what we found.
By spending $2 billion each year for about 30 years, we could restore much of Australia’s severely denuded landscapes.
Many valuable scientific breakthroughs were originally published in a non-English language. New research shows more effort is needed to transcend language barriers to improve conservation science.
There are calls for measures to reduce the burden of red tape and promote and facilitate biodiversity research in South Africa.
British countryside management needs a new co-ordinated approach, a researcher argues.
About 60% of Mexico’s forests are managed by local communities. A scholar who has studied the forests for 30 years explains how this system protects the forests and the people who oversee them.
Domestic dogs have been shown to be the only species necessary to maintain rabies across most of Africa. This means that dog vaccination should control the disease in all species.
Elephants avoided areas where others were poached.
Prickly hedges capture large amounts of carbon dioxide, and are great homes for insects.
Through its Belt and Road Initiative, China has become the world’s largest country-to-country lender. A new study shows that more than half of its loans threaten sensitive lands or Indigenous people.
Under a new code, rural landholders in NSW will be allowed to clear up to 25 metres of land outside their property boundary. This will be devastating for the wildlife that live or migrate there.
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