Scientists discover air quality monitoring stations are collecting urgently needed biodiversity data
An international team of researchers has discovered that thousands of ambient air quality monitoring stations around the world are unwittingly ...
Tag: Biodiversity
Protecting existing parks is as crucial for biodiversity conservation as creating new protected areas
Protected areas – often referred to as parks – are one of the most widely implemented and effective strategies for ...
New study finds strengthening protection of existing parks is crucial for biodiversity conservation
-With pictures- In a new study, bioscientists argue that strengthening the protection given to areas already protected under law or ...
Major primate genome sequencing studies reveal new insight into evolution, biodiversity and key applications for human health
HOUSTON – (June 1, 2023) – A new investigation led by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine’s Human Genome Sequencing ...
Mapping the conflict between farming and biodiversity
Food is one of society’s great moral quandaries. Its production pushes many species to the brink of extinction and the ...
Tree islands bring biodiversity to oil palm plantations
Islands of trees in oil palm plantations can significantly increase biodiversity within five years without reducing productivity. This has been ...
River erosion drives fish biodiversity in the Appalachians
New Haven, Conn. — The gradual erosion of layers of rock by rivers flowing through the Appalachian Mountains generates biodiversity ...
Establishing a wildflower meadow at King’s College, Cambridge bolstered biodiversity and reduced greenhouse gas emissions, study finds.
A new study examining the effects of planting a wildflower meadow in the historic grounds of King’s College, Cambridge has ...
Conservationists propose “global conservation basic income” to safeguard biodiversity
Publishing in the journal Nature Sustainability, a team of conservationists led by the Wildlife Conservation Society say that providing a ...
Biodiversity discovery: Unknown species (“dark taxa”) drive insect diversity
Biodiversity loss ranks among the top three risks to humanity, as stated in the 2023 World Economic Forum Global Risks ...
Vanishing glaciers threaten alpine biodiversity
Vanishing glaciers threaten alpine biodiversity Credit: University of Leeds Vanishing glaciers threaten alpine biodiversity With glaciers melting at unprecedented rates ...
Wildfires and animal biodiversity
Wildfires. Many see them as purely destructive forces, disasters that blaze through a landscape, charring everything in their paths. But ...
Scientists advocate for integration of biogeography and behavioral ecology to rapidly respond to biodiversity loss
An interdisciplinary team of researchers at the University of Oklahoma has published a perspective article in the journal Proceedings of ...
Biodiversity auditing key to success of new conservation plans
New research led by the University of East Anglia (UEA) suggests a way to greatly improve the outcomes of biodiversity ...
New technologies for research & protection of marine biodiversity
ANERIS, an EU-funded collaborative research project focused on developing a network for operational marine biology, has officially kicked off. The ...
Detecting coral biodiversity in seawater samples
Researchers from the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) have developed a method to measure coral biodiversity through extracting ...
New EU project will standardise access to biodiversity data to empower policymakers
The magnitude and dynamics of the global biodiversity crisis are hard to quantify and require rapid, reliable and repeatable biodiversity ...
At least 80% of the world’s most important sites for biodiversity on land currently contain human developments, study finds
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Towards reducing biodiversity loss in fragmented habitats
When natural habitats are cleared to make way for cities, roads and agriculture, this often leaves behind “islands” of fragmented ...
A persistent influence of supernovae on biodiversity
Extensive studies of the fossil record have shown that the diversity of life forms has varied significantly over geological time, ...