The climate crisis effects are not limited to geography specific natural disasters such as floods and droughts, but its effect threatens the functioning of everyday life and economy, with severe ...

Opinion: Unlike many other provinces, B.C. still has no stand-alone law that protects biodiversity but healthy ecosystems are ...

Scientists warn that the fate of Earth’s trees holds the key to our planet’s future stability.

Governments meeting in France next week hold the fate of the planet in their hands. Scientists and conservationists say the ...

Bangladesh incurs an annual GDP loss of 1–2% due to climate change-induced disasters such as floods, droughts, cyclones, tidal surges and heatwaves. Despite limited resources, the government has been ...

From southbound cane toads to invasive weeds and fluctuating fish stocks, a novel technique called eDNA has revealed what's in NSW waterways—and how it's influenced by natural disasters.

Since 2000, the United Nations (UN) recognizes May 22 as the International Day for Biological Diversity, in hopes of promoting international cooperation and conversation surrounding biodiversity ...

Comprising less than 5% of the world's population, indigenous people protect 80% of global biodiversity. Their role is under discussion by world leaders this week. Bromeliads, ferns, and orchids ...

Outside her cabin in northern Belize, Elizabeth Clare, a biodiversity scientist at York University, walks along a path. Everywhere she looks, it's teeming with life. "There's hibiscus flowers over ...

FEMA and the Smithsonian Institution have partnered to offer the Save Your Family Treasures program to help people recover their memories after disasters. Erendira Strittar, with FEMA public ...

It will be harder to know the cost of the most extreme weather disasters, as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced it will stop monitoring billion-dollar disasters in the ...