Tag: global

When scientists from around the globe shared their expertise on biodiversity in their corners of the world, they discovered that biodiversity loss may be worse than originally thought. Past research...

Protected areas are havens of biodiversity across the globe, but under a warming climate, species using them may shift their niches to areas that are no longer protected. “Climate change...

In order to stop future devastating pandemics like COVID-19, wildlife scientists and experts argue that a global system of wildlife surveillance is necessary. The researchers point to epidemics like Ebola,...

Community science may not yet be enough to help scientists determine bird population trends around the world. Past research has looked at how species’ population trends deduced from community science,...

Ever since the demise of bee colonies worldwide came to conservationists’ attention over a decade ago, the effort to better understand diseases afflicting bees has been gathering momentum. More recently,...

For decades now, scientists have been trying to understand the implications of climate change for species around the world. But climate change isn’t the only major environmental transformation being driven...

Converting wild lands to agriculture can negatively impact wildlife, but according to a recent study, intensifying agriculture on existing farmlands can also come with a cost in different regions and...

Mammals tend to move less in human-modified landscapes than in more natural areas, according to new research. Many studies have looked at how single species respond to human presence, but...

Even more than climate change, human population growth or their own species characteristics, waterbird species across the globe seem to be declining mostly from political instability and weak governance, according...

Compared to other vertebrates, reptiles have been a mystery to science, and their distribution has been less understood than that of mammals, birds and amphibians. A recently completed global atlas...