Without rapid, coordinated global action, ocean health will continue to decline, threatening climate stability, biodiversity ...

A United Nations assessment released today warns that the world's oceans face a deepening crisis driven by climate change, pollution, overfishing and biodiversity loss.

The biodiversity crisis demands rapid identification and monitoring of species across ecosystems. DNA barcoding, which uses short, standardised gene sequences to discriminate taxa, has revolutionised ...

The World Economic Forum recently reported that ‘major biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse’ is one of the top ten risks facing our world in 2019 both by likelihood and by impact. The May report ...

ESA is crafting official comments in response to the release of the First Draft of the Biodiversity and Climate Change Assessment, a congressionally mandated initiative led by the U.S. Geological ...

World Ocean Assessment flags accelerating climate impacts, pollution and biodiversity loss across marine ecosystems ...

Assessing the state of an ecosystem solely on the basis of short-term changes in the number of different species it contains can lead to false conclusions. Assessing the state of an ecosystem solely ...

This activity was supported by a contract between the National Academy of Sciences, U.S. Geological Survey (sponsor award #140G0124Q0107) and National Academy of Sciences Arthur L. Day Fund. Any ...

Uganda’s environmental impact assessment law requires developers to consider alternatives to reduce environmental harm.

Biodiversity, the variety of plant, animal and microbial life on Earth, is still declining. For many years there have been calls for some sort of scientific body or initiative to be set up to ...

The Aglipay Caves system in Quirino province has been selected as one of the pilot sites for the implementation of global and ...