Eating meat-heavy diets speeds up species extinction, while plant-based diets use less land and help save wildlife.

Safeguarding biodiversity is not simply an environmental concern but a foundational element of preventive and clinical care.

With healthy populations of animals that disperse seeds, tropical forests can absorb up to four times more carbon.

When species disappear, more than their genomes are lost. The potential for their creative innovation to benefit ecosystems vanishes as well. To some people—road engineers, for instance—beavers and ...

New research method combines different types of data, revealing that the deep-sea basins in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans have unique species communities that are threatened by economic exploitation ...

Africa's ecosystems are running on less than two-thirds of the natural energy they once had, according to new Oxford-led ...

Late in the evening on Aug. 16, lightning struck a cliff face near the Flat Tops Wilderness, igniting what came to be known as the Derby Fire. Residents from surrounding communities such as Dotsero ...

Polar bears, the iconic creatures of the Arctic, have a role that extends beyond their status as apex predators. They are ...

With alarms sounding about the declining diversity and populations of plants and animals, we post a related concern with equally profound implications: is the variety of microbial life, including ...

A new Oxford study uncovers a hidden energy crisis within Africa’s wildlife, revealing how the loss of large animals may be ...

The current emoji library doesn’t accurately represent the “tree of life” and the breadth of biodiversity seen in nature according to an analysis presented December 11 in the journal iScience. A team ...