Fifteen years ago, Yale scientists launched a digital platform called “Map of Life,” an initiative to monitor changes in global species populations and support practitioners with robust conservation ...

Biodiversity—the vast variety of life on Earth—forms the foundation of healthy ecosystems, stable climates, and resilient societies. From microscopic organisms to towering forests and complex animal ...

|Sustainable sites support biodiversity, defined as the variety of life forms within a given ecosystem, biome, or the entire earth. In your backyard, you can provide a diversity of vegetation that ...

Diversity is a much discussed and debated topic, and biologists have observed and studied various aspects of natural diversity for quite some time. The term “biodiversity” was widely popularized in ...

A team of scientists has overcome a major challenge in predicting how Antarctic life will fare under future climate scenarios ...

The SWAT Team at work on one section of a survey site in Burnt Hill, Oregon. (Photo by Megan Williams) Megan Williams searches for sea stars at a survey site. (Photo by Alison Kendall) SWAT Team ...

CALI, Colombia 2 November 2024 — The 16th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP 16) was suspended in the morning of Nov. 2 but not before countries ...

Roughly 2 million species live in the world’s ocean. But scientists have only described a mere 10% of them. With extinctions on the rise and biodiversity threatened worldwide, many species are in ...

A study from UNIGE reveals how mechanical constraints, related to tissue growth, contribute to generating the diversity of biological structures. How can we explain the morphological diversity of ...