22 Articles found tagged with “biodiversity”.
Using the most comprehensive dataset on the ‘human footprint,’ which maps the accumulated impact of human activities on the land’s surface, researchers have documented intense human pressures across the range of a staggering 20,529 terrestrial vertebrate species.
Climate change will have a rapidly increasing effect on the structure of global ecological communities over the next few decades, and is set to overtake land use as a major threat to biodiversity.
Despite its remote location that appears to be far from the impacts of humans, Antarctica and the Southern Ocean are not in as good environmental shape as has been previously thought.
A new study has found that hunting for the bushmeat trade has dramatically reduced wildlife biodiversity in the forests near rural villages in Gabon, Central Africa.
Acidification of the world’s oceans could drive biodiversity loss in some marine habitats.
long summer droughts and other factors will likely lead to the rapid drying or even complete loss of many ecologically important wetlands.
Learning to manage the habitats and biodiversity within our oceans and coasts is one of the greatest challenges of this century.
New research has assessed the ecological impact of returning Tasmanian devils to the mainland and the results show that doing so would improve Australia’s biodiversity.
‘Free’ pollination by bees and other insects is worth over £400m** to UK agriculture each year but their numbers are in severe decline. This innovative project will engage 260 schools to help transform their grounds into pollinator-friendly habitats.
Aliens have invaded the Mediterranean, and are disrupting the ecosystem’s delicate balance.