A study from UNIGE reveals how mechanical constraints, related to tissue growth, contribute to generating the diversity of ...

Overhunting, ecosystem destruction and climate change caused by human emissions are all contributing to a rapid decline of global biodiversity. A new report released by the World Wildlife Fund, an NGO ...

The planet's wondrous web of life — which took 4 billion years to evolve — is vanishing in the blink of an eye. Under relentless pressure from habitat destruction, invasive species and climate change, ...

An international team of researchers published a high-resolution analysis of the global diversity of life forms spanning 2 billion years based on a global compilation of fossil data. A new study ...

Global biodiversity is declining at an unprecedented rate, with agriculture as a major driver. There is mounting evidence that intercropping can increase insect biodiversity while maintaining or ...

For far too long, the decline in the biodiversity of our rivers and lakes has been out of sight and out of mind.

Wang Rongjiang's research group at the School of Life Sciences and the Center for Ecological Research of Peking University has published a study on the diversity pattern of butterfly species in China.

Wilson and became associated with wildlife and habitat conservation. Biodiversity usually refers to the variety of life in a specified area or location. However, biodiversity is studied at all ...