Fast-growing trees are taking over the forests of the future and putting biodiversity, climate resilience under pressure

Trees play a central role in life on Earth. They store CO₂, provide habitats for animals, fungi, and insects, stabilize soils ...

The devastation of island land snails: Pacific leads global wave of extinctions, researchers find

A comprehensive new review paper reveals the staggering loss of biodiversity among island land snails globally. Lead author ...
Forbes

Targeted Conservation Efforts Help Restore Crashing Biodiversity

A major review of over 67,000 animal species has found that with greater resource allocation, conservation can halt and reverse biodiversity loss. European bison (Bison bonasus) are a conservation ...
Mongabay

After 50 years of the U.S. Endangered Species Act, we need new biodiversity protection laws (commentary)

If you liked this story, share it with other people. The 50 th anniversary of the Endangered Species Act (ESA) — the most consequential environmental legislation ever created — is ringing in a new ...
Fauna & Flora InternationalOpinion

Right species, right place, right reason – The keys to successful tree-planting

This energy for planting trees must be channelled towards growing the right tree in the right place. Deforested land can be ...
Beyond Pesticides

Continued Decline in Insect Species Biodiversity with Agricultural Pesticide Use Documented

(Beyond Pesticides, September 11, 2024) A literature review in Environments, written by researchers from South Korea and Ghana, highlights the threat to nontarget species and the biodiversity of ...

Land-intensive carbon removal requires better siting to protect biodiversity, study warns

New research looks at carbon dioxide removal—where carbon is absorbed from the atmosphere and stored—and finds that large-scale reliance on land-based methods, such as planting forests or bioenergy ...