A UNEP report warns that nature-based solutions face a massive financing gap, fragmented government policies and weak institutional support, despite their potential to tackle climate change, ...

Antarctica and its surrounding waters host a unique assemblage of life adapted to extreme cold, seasonal darkness and ice-covered landscapes. Terrestrial biodiversity is dominated by hardened mosses, ...

Ecosystem multifunctionality refers to the capacity of natural systems to sustain multiple functions and services—such as nutrient cycling, primary production, decomposition and climate ...

A new global initiative called GReG is using environmental DNA to map and protect the hidden biodiversity of groundwater ...

Researchers are returning to those four locations as part of the expanded seven-site campaign in 2026, creating a basis for examining changes in marine biodiversity and checking for newly recorded ...

A technology has been developed that can overcome the limitations of conventional ecotoxicity assessment, which has failed to ...

Researchers used environmental DNA metabarcoding in the Rioni River to detect 34 fish taxa, identifying three invasive alien species and a new country record for the ninespine stickleback.

Plant species can fulfill different functions within an ecosystem, even if they are closely related to each other. This surprising conclusion was reached by a global analysis of around 1.7 million ...

Nature knows no borders, so EU countries work together to preserve species populations and their habitats. EU rules aim to preserve the environment and wildlife by protecting natural areas and ...

The loss of Earth's animal and plant species is a crisis. Just don't call it an "extinction crisis" if you aim to mobilize ...

Environmental scientists monitor and analyze planetary conditions to develop data-driven solutions to sustainability challenges.