Celebrate International Biodiversity Day from your own yard
Go outside, and stand still. Chances are, you’ll see wildlife. From your own yard, you may notice spring warblers flying above, you may see a hummingbird’s ...
Biodiversity
Do shifting ranges under climate change mean more species invasions?
Biologists and conservationists often advocate for the use of corridors and connectivity to increase species dispersal and biodiversity. But can those corridors ...
To survive city life, birds benefit from brains or breeding
Birds that thrive in urban environments either have larger brains or the ability to reproduce multiple times throughout their lifespan, researchers found. Past ...
Sen. Udall releases ambitious proposal for land, water conservation
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, ...
Is an asteroid responsible for earth’s biodiversity?
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 ...
Can countries work together to fund conservation?
A new study suggests different ways to provide money to countries with protected areas in order to benefit conservation. Researchers from Sweden, Germany, Brazil ...
Species abundant on indigenous lands
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 ...
Freshwater species on a fast decline
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 ...
Machines are better listeners when it comes to biodiversity
Machines are better than humans at detecting wildlife biodiversity by sound, according to new research. In a recent systematic comparison, researchers compared ...
Is the future of biodiversity in the cards?
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 ...