Diversity is a much discussed and debated topic, and biologists have observed and studied various aspects of natural diversity for quite some time. The term “biodiversity” was widely popularized in ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. In an era of rapid globalization, economic growth has come with trade-offs. To make ...

Each species represents a unique library of evolutionary wisdom, encoded in DNA and refined over millions of years. In a new commentary prior to the International Union for Conservation of Nature ...

Leading ecologists have devised a new framework to classify how biodiversity credit operators define what a unit of nature is. The new analysis demonstrates the challenges involved with devising a ...

In recent years, biodiversity credit projects and the methods to calculate their value have proliferated, seen by some as a way to finance the $700 billion gap in conservation funding identified in ...