Cannabis has been a globally important crop for millennia. While best known today as marijuana for its psychoactive ...

A new study published in Global Change Biology reveals that over 20% of the world’s oceans have grown significantly darker ...

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 ...

In the last decade, report after report has warned that the Arctic is heating up faster than ever, cities are scorching, the ...

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Bermuda's Walsingham cave system harbors a wide diversity of cave-dwelling animals not found anywhere else in the world. Now, ...

From tropical wetlands to arid plains, these vibrant ecosystems and their incredible biodiversity hotspots would welcome ...

disrupting critical food webs, and hurting a crucial industry that provides nutrition and employment. Why you should care about pressures on small pelagic fish The warming climate and other human ...

has resulted in a greater diversity of organisms in the soil, meaning a stronger food web and overall soil health. Cornell AgriTech tested the campus lawn in high-, medium-, and low-maintenance ...

He is affiliated with the High ... biodiversity loss. The pursuit of global food productivity has also led to the homogenization of landscapes, replacing once-complex food webs with greatly ...

High evenness ... Functional diversity looks beyond simple species counts to examine the variety of ecological roles—or functions—that species fulfill in an ecosystem. For example, different plant ...

“The high seas are ... our gods and traditional foods come from,” he said in Cali, Colombia kicking off an event held within the margins of the world’s largest biodiversity summit, the ...