In the face of mounting threats from climate change, mixed species forests have been called an "insurance policy" for UK ...

In the largest study of its kind, researchers at the Florida Museum of Natural History have used data from a 120-year-old ...

Children and young people learn more about biological diversity when they gain their own experiences observing nature, ...

President Donald Trump’s administration is proposing to alter the meaning of the Endangered Species Act. Environmental groups ...

Biological diversity is under threat. More and more plant and animal species are disappearing worldwide, and humans are responsible. Until now, however, there has been no synthesis of the extent ...

One of the wonders of tropical forests is the sheer diversity of trees, with many times more species per acre than are found in temperate climes. (The same is true, of course, for birds and ...

Our planet’s first known mass extinction happened about 440 million years ago. Species diversity on Earth had been increasing over a period of roughly 30 million years, but that would come to a ...