Halting biodiversity loss is one of the great challenges of the 21st century, and if we want international conservation policies that work, we need to urgently re-evaluate how we think ecosystems work ...

Intact ecosystems have the capacity for self-regulation, which keeps their complex structure of species—such as animals, ...

When the Black Death depopulated Europe, abandoned farmland reverted to forest—and plant diversity declined. The lesson may ...

The value of ecological biodiversity for maintaining ecosystem stability and function is well established, but a recent study points to a novel way to fine-tune our ability to measure it at larger ...

Environmental scientists, ecologists, and policy experts argue in a letter published today in Science that the proposed Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework—a new international agreement to protect ...

The landscape of corporate environmental responsibility is evolving beyond a focus on climate issues to more holistically account for nature-related risks, such as biodiversity loss. Recognizing the ...

Environmental Science major Jennifer Arena ’26 says she was struck by the University's urban setting on her first visit to campus. “It felt that it needed more areas of natural landscape,” she said.

If you liked this story, share it with other people. The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund are holding their annual meetings this week, Oct. 14-20, in Washington, D.C. Amid the ...

Biodiversity is a global public good. We at the World Bank Group believe it’s also a key development issue. Our research estimates that Low-Income Countries could forego around 10 percent of their GDP ...