Tag: Biodiversity

Senator Tom Udall, D-NM, introduced a Senate resolution that calls for protecting at least 30% of the United States’ lands and waters by 2030. The resolution, called the Thirty by...

What if a cataclysmic asteroid collision was one of the best things to happen to biodiversity on earth? An international team of researchers concluded that a collision of asteroids between...

A new study suggests different ways to provide money to countries with protected areas in order to benefit conservation. Researchers from Sweden, Germany, Brazil and the U.S. developed three different...

As a team of researchers looked at biodiversity on lands in British Columbia, they found species diversity was particularly high on First Nations lands. That led them to wonder, do...

Freshwater species have declined 88 percent since 1970 — twice the decline of animals on the land or ocean, according to recent research, yet large gaps remain in monitoring and...

Machines are better than humans at detecting wildlife biodiversity by sound, according to new research. In a recent systematic comparison, researchers compared autonomous sound recording devices with bird point counts...

The Phylo trading card game has become popular since its launch in 2010, but researchers found it can it also be an effective teaching tool. The game works like Pokémon,...

The Wildlife Society, alongside the American Fisheries Society and the National Wildlife Federation, sent a letter to the leadership of the House Natural Resources Committee’s Subcommittee on Water, Oceans and...

The Antarctic Peninsula can be a brutal place, but penguins and seals have created biodiversity hotspots, researchers found, thanks to their nitrogen-rich scat. Biologists found ammonia from their feces is...

Adam Yaney-Keller was checking videos that showed up on his camera trap. He had placed the video camera at a small, dried-up waterfall pool where he thought he would catch...