It’s something never seen before,” marine biologist Cherisse Du Preez told Science Post France, when her team’s submersible ...

As David Attenborough reflects in his new documentary Ocean, "After living for nearly 100 years on this planet, I now understand the most important place on Earth is not on land, but at sea". We ...

The 50-kilometer-wide seamount contains three dormant volcanoes, the floor of which drops more than two kilometers below the ...

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 ...

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Conservationists welcome the initiative and say they believe that the new measures will help protect the biodiversity and ecology that had been set aside in the past. See All Key Ideas With an aim ...

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 ...

At its heart lies a fundamental truth: there can be no sustainable development without thriving biodiversity. Biodiversity, the incredible variety of life on Earth, is not a distant concept ...

The key to understanding how climate change affects local biodiversity might lie with the young, scientists have recently discovered. A new study from the University of Aberdeen and McGill ...

superheated water and nutrients from an Axial Seamount hydrothermal vent supports a wide variety of life. Courtesy of ROV Jason/WHOI Axial is more geologically active than any of the towering ...