Tag: Biodiversity

A global effort to map the genomes of life on earth is moving from a pilot project to full-scale production sequencing. The Earth BioGenome Project launched in 2018 as an...

When it comes to biodiversity, some parts of the world are short on data. But maybe they’re not as understudied as many scientists believe. A new study suggests translating research...

When Wini Kessler was a undergraduate zoology student at the University of California, Berkeley in the early 1970s, she sat in on an impromptu seminar offered by a visiting professor....

Pulling together information on threatened and endangered wildlife, researchers were able to predict which taxa and geographic areas are more likely to face certain threats. This can give conservationists a...

The province of British Columbia plans to suspend logging in a portion of old-growth forest to stem biodiversity loss, but it is waiting on First Nations to sign off on...

As species go extinct, they also seem to show up less in the novels we read. Researchers tapped into a digital dataset of works of fiction written in English between...

A new bill introduced into the U.S. House of Representatives late last month would classify the “global wildlife extinction crisis” as a national emergency. That would require the U.S. Fish...

About 500 bee species —14% of all of the bee species known in the United States — can be found in the Chihuahuan Desert at the border of the U.S....

During a hearing last week, U.S. lawmakers highlighted threats to wildlife and the loss of biodiversity as well as how to address these issues. The U.S. Senate Environment and Public...

When people want to know the answer to a question, they increasingly turn to the online encyclopedia Wikipedia. So when researchers wanted to understand people’s awareness of biodiversity, they went...