It’s a great paradox that the sector that relies the most on biodiversity, agriculture, is also the greatest threat to the world’s most fragile ecosystems. The question isn’t how to just minimize the ...

Grassland degradation fundamentally reshapes how biodiversity supports ecosystem multifunctionality, shifting it from being plant-dominated to being mediated by soil microbes, according to a new study ...

With healthy populations of animals that disperse seeds, tropical forests can absorb up to four times more carbon. A lot of attention has been paid to how climate change can reduce biodiversity. Now ...

Vora is a practicing physician, senior adviser for One Health at Conservation International, and executive director of the Preventing Pandemics at the Source Coalition. Walzer is a wildlife ...

New research carried out in Colombia by the University of Cambridge suggests that local surveys assessing the effect of land clearances on biodiversity may be underestimating the impact by as much as ...

A new white paper: "From Knowledge to Solutions: Science, Technology and Innovation in Support of the UN SDGs," published in the journal Research Ideas and Outcomes (RIO), brings together leading ...

The agency is crafting a definition that could shape food policy nationwide. By Dani Blum The federal government plans to develop a new definition of ultraprocessed foods, a wide-ranging group of ...

In the past, biodiversity loss was often framed as a philanthropic or compliance-related issue — an add-on to corporate responsibility initiatives. Today, that framing is dangerously outdated.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dianne Plummer is an Energy Consultant and Certified Energy Manager. Over the last 60 years, Earth’s biological diversity has ...

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