Researchers provide genome sequence data and species identification for 760 plant specimens from Ruili Botanical Garden, Southwest China

Species of reptiles, amphibians, and other vertebrates are becoming extinct in Haiti as deforestation has claimed more than 99 percent of the country's original wooded areas

Ecologists have examined the factors that influence an ecosystem's stability in a unique and comprehensive experiment

A new study outlines a sustainable path forward for the second most biodiverse country in the world

For every one degree Celsius increase in temperature, mountaintop species shift upslope 100 metres,  shrinking their inhabited area area and resulting in population declines

A new Yale study affirms a long-held hypothesis that the presence of specialized "natural enemies" promotes tropical biodiversity. Except when it doesn't.

A global biodiversity collapse is imminent unless we take urgent, concerted action to reverse species loss in the tropics, according to a major scientific study

The global demographic and economic trends that have resulted in unprecedented destruction of the environment are now creating the necessary conditions for a possible renaissance of nature, paper says

Researchers had expected the level of damage would rise depending on the amount of logging and were surprised to discover the impact of removing relatively few trees

Deep-sea expeditions and drones have revealed a giant group of octopuses and their eggs in a place where they shouldn't be able to survive