• Email Bluesky Facebook LinkedIn Reddit Whatsapp X Your Editorial rightly highlights the need for better evidence in biodiversity conservation (seeNature650, 7-8; 2026). • But evi
• Scientists develop new method to track Earth’s greenness via center of mass calculation. • Approach uses satellite data to quantify vegetation health globally across regions. • F
• 84 key biodiversity variables outlined to standardize Europe’s monitoring framework. • Study proposes integrated Biodiversity Observation Network (BON) as modern, scalable platfo
• Pangolins, the shy, scaly anteaters, are the world’s most trafficked mammals. • They are hunted for their unique scales, prized in traditional medicine and fashion. • Illegal tra
• Forests act as climate buffers, stabilizing local temperatures and reducing heat extremes. • They regulate hydrological cycles, ensuring water availability during droughts and fl
• Science, Volume 391, Issue 6786, Page 719-723, February 2026.
• An ecosystem is not a still life. • Even where everything looks stable-a woodland, a lake, the soil-the internal ‘bookkeeping’ keeps changing: how many individuals belong to whic
• Fire is integral to Australian ecosystems, enabling regeneration of many native species. • Restored Banksia woodlands were tested under experimental fire conditions. • Dr. Ebony
• Climate warming has accelerated since 1970s, yet species turnover hasn’t increased. • Global biodiversity surveys across marine, freshwater, land show declining turnover over 1-5
• Fungi are often seen as mystical, yet remain largely overlooked in mainstream science. • The Manzanita butter clump is a rare yellow mushroom discovered only along North America'
• Every living organism has its own genetic ‘blueprint’: the source code for how it grows, functions and reproduces. • This blueprint is known as a genome. • When scientists sequen
• American chestnut nearly wiped out by two Asian fungal pathogens, killing ~3 billion trees. • Fungus kills saplings before they can seed, leaving chestnut functionally extinct in
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• AI-powered drones monitor endangered Māui dolphins, aiding conservation efforts in New Zealand. • Only 54 known individuals, making them one of the world’s most threatened marine