The world's human population is expanding, which means even more agricultural land will be needed to provide food for this growing population. However, choosing which areas to convert is difficult and ...

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, ...

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 ...

Keystone The nature conservation associations Birdlife, Pro Natura and WWF criticize the lack of measures and indicators for biodiversity in Switzerland. There is a lack of guidance as to whether ...

Pension funds and other investors representing €6 trillion ($6.5 trillion) in assets have called for the creation of a framework to measure biodiversity impact. The 128.4 billion Danish kroner ($18.6 ...

A new approach to measuring biodiversity has uncovered some biologically important but currently unprotected areas in Western Australia, while confirming the significance of the world heritage listed ...

“Danger: Electric Fishing in Progress,” reads the bright yellow sign on the bank of the River Frome in southwest England. Even at its widest point just outside the city of Bristol, before it joins up ...

Konik ponies graze in Wicken Fen, Cambridgeshire. The UK National Trust used TESSA to calculate that each hectare of the fen was worth US$200 more per year as wetland than as farmland.

A new Farm Environmental Study (FES) has been announced by the ministry of the Department of Agriculture to support “biodiversity measurement” on 8,000 participant farms. The pilot programme will ...

Just as the pandemic hit, Christina Islas Lynggaard—a postdoc researcher at the University of Copenhagen’s Globe Institute—sat in her apartment surrounded by vacuums and filters. She tested them, ...

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 ...