Almost 200 nations have signed an ambitious agreement to halt and reverse biodiversity loss but none is on track to meet the ...

The most recent Living Planet Report showed a 39 per cent drop in the average size of North America's monitored vertebrate ...

A 280 million-year-old lost world was accidentally discovered by ... the researchers explained. The ancient ecosystem, found at altitudes as high as 10,000 feet and at the bottom of valleys ...

All over the world, ecosystems are threatened. From forests and drylands to farmlands and lakes, natural spaces on which humanity’s existence depends are reaching a tipping point. According to ...

Seagrasses — which range from stubby sprout-like vegetation to elongated plants with flat, ribbon-like leaves — are one of the world ... coastal ecosystems. “If we lose seagrass, and ...

But few people have any idea of the unimaginable diversity that swims below the surface of the world’s freshwater ecosystems or how critical these undervalued and overlooked freshwater fishes are to ...

Climate change is melting away glaciers around the world, but in the Andes Mountains, a wild relative of the llama is helping local ecosystems ... the Earth could lose 68% of its glaciers, a ...

Wetlands are ecosystems ... In just 50 years — since 1970 — 35% of the world’s wetlands have been lost. Human activities that lead to loss of wetlands include drainage and infilling for ...