Biodiversity and Conservation Archives

How Our Dietary Choices Impact Species Extinction

A research model explains how foods produced with less impact on animal habitats can preserve biodiversity and prevent species extinction.

Large predators can’t be added or subtracted to an ecosystem like simple arithmetic—many factors shift simultaneously.

Shifts in fish populations show the impact of climate change on Arctic food webs and Indigenous communities as river temperatures increase.

Giant ground sloths are extinct now, but scientists uncover what environmental factors helped them evolve in the first place.

Insect-friendly urban gardens show great promise to be havens for bees and other pollinators, securing their future and allowing them to thrive.

More data on the activity patterns of newly hatched sea turtles in the water may be crucial for sea turtle conservation efforts.

Rainforest conservation gains new focus with the discovery that just 2% of the diverse tree species in the forest account for half the trees.

Emperor penguins officially a threatened species because of projections of population decline from climate change and ineffective conservation.

Bats play an important role in forest ecosystems because of what’s called trophic cascades: they eat insects that eat trees.

Did you participate in the largest ever fungi bioblitz? Read about the citizen science push cataloging fungi diversity in North America!