Tag: Biodiversity

What is the natural world worth? Can you put a price on birdsong? These are among the questions to be ...

Credit: Wangzhen Zhang Specimens kept in the collection of the Institute of Beneficial Insects at the Fujian Agriculture and Forestry ...

Credit: University of Texas at Austin Jackson School of Geosciences The National Science Foundation has awarded a CAREER grant to ...

Mushrooms: Darker fruiting bodies in cold climates The fly agaric with its red hat is perhaps the most evocative of ...

Credit: Robert Whyte (Jotus fortiniae sp. nov., top row) and Michael Doe (unidentified species, bottom row), CeNak. New to science ...

On an 18-day voyage July 18 -- August 4, 2019 US/Canadian team of experts and students to measure vital signs ...

Credit: Banco de Imagens Projeto TAMAR Brazil's leatherback turtles are making a "gentle recovery" after 30 years of conservation efforts, ...

Credit: Rainer Simonis / Nationalpark Bayerischer Wald "Bark beetles lay waste to forests" - "Climate change sends beetles into overdrive" ...

Credit: Huang Danwei Global sea levels are expected to rise by at least half a metre by the year 2100 ...

Genome sequence data from three jellyfish species reveal evolutionary mechanisms of unique jellyfish traits and venomous toxinsCredit: Allen Collins An ...

Findings can help guide surveillance and prevent deadly outbreaksCredit: Rajib Islam (Millbrook, NY) Since its discovery in 1999, Nipah virus ...

Immediate, science-based community action can mitigate insect declineCredit: Julia Harencar This year, German environmentalists collected 1.75 million signatures for a ...

After the collapse of the blockchain bubble a number of research organisations are developing platforms to enable individual ownership of ...

Credit: UBC Media Relations A big data study covering more than 7,500 households across 23 tropical countries shows that natural ...