Ørsted has responded by developing a transferable framework that can quantify biodiversity loss – offering robust data that can inform planning decisions, monitor the impact of developments, and ...

How do we decide which species to favor and which to spurn? The law protects dwindling populations of snail darters, but does it apply to nature's creatures that we consider pests, like weeds, or ...

Jan. 23 (UPI) --Scientists in South Africa have identified an effective way to accurately measure biodiversity on a global scale. Biodiversity is prized by ecologists and conservationists, but global ...

image: A study led by Princeton University illustrates this challenge by using several different approaches to solve the same puzzle: Given a target amount of food, where should new croplands be put ...

In October, world leaders will gather at the United Nations Biodiversity Conference in Cali, Colombia, to put an ambitious plan to halt human-induced species extinction into action. The conference, ...

Deadwood is a key indicator for measuring forest biodiversity. This will be one of the possible sub-indicators to be used in the BioMonitor data platform and model toolbox to measure biodiversity in ...

A new article shows how Essential Biodiversity Variables can be produced to measure biodiversity change at a global scale. A new paper co-authored by a group of international scientists, among them ...

As the world commemorates International Biodiversity Day, TRAFFIC urges governments to finalize the global goals and targets to conserve and sustainably use biodiversity which are under development ...

At first blush, the idea of biodiversity seems simple enough. It is essentially the variety of all life on Earth. But making sense of biodiversity in a way that can help us halt or even reverse its ...

Life above ground depends on the soil and its countless inhabitants. Yet, global strategies to protect biodiversity have so far paid little attention to this habitat. Researchers call for greater ...

This content has been created by the Finextra editorial team with inputs from subject matter experts at the funding sponsor. Katie Critchlow, CEO NatureMetrics Ltd, talks about how the collection of ...

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 ...