All posts in Biodiversity
Putting a dollar value on nature will give governments and businesses more reasons to protect it
Overhauling society’s concept of wealth to include “natural capital” – the value nature provides to humans – is a critical step for slowing and reversing the loss of precious ecosytems.
Saving Madagascar’s critically endangered singing lemurs
Yet like all other lemurs, indris are critically endangered and are losing out to habitat loss and poaching.
Poachers claim the lives of endangered Sumatran tigers
Deforestation and poaching mean the tigers could end up extinct like their Javan and Balinese counterparts.
Scientists use 3D printing to help save embattled coral reefs
Creating 3D-printed coral alternatives is less labor-intensive than other restoration methods.
Report finds pesticide use is making U.S. foods unsafe
Strawberries, kale, apples, and grapes carry traces of pesticide toxins still used to grow food in the United States.
Hundreds of mammalian species are ‘waiting to be discovered’ by science
Only a tenth, if that, of species on the planet have been formally described by scientists, it is widely believed.