Suriname pledges to permanently protect 90% of its forests, a significant commitment for global climate action and biodiversity.

BANGKOK — The Mekong countries of Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam lost a combined area of tree cover of nearly a million hectares in 2024, or an area almost the size of Lebanon. That’s a...

Published in Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research: An Interdisciplinary Journal (Vol. 57, No. 1, 2025)

Hawaii has experienced profound declines in native avifauna alongside the introduction of numerous bird species. While site-specific population studies are common, landscape-level analyses of avian p...

Crossbow bolts, sandals, slingshots, and more.

Introduction The European Union (EU) continues to lead with sustainability in terms of policy and practice and has been the primary political and legislative force with respects to Environmental, Soci...

The winners of the Royal Society of Biology’s 2025 amateur photography competition have been announced.

The Royal Society of Biology’s BioArtAttack 2D competition combines science and art in a 2D format to celebrate and showcase the detailed observation of the natural world and the wonders of biology. T...

As climate risks grow, geoengineering may accelerate biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse. Learn why real solutions — not speculation — are needed.

Çağan Şekercioğlu was an ambitious, but perhaps naive graduate student when, 26 years ago, he embarked on a simple data-compilation project that would soon evolve into a massive career-defining achiev...

Earlier this year, the first wave of corporate reports under the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) quietly revealed a troubling trend. Fewer than 40% of companies identified nature-related issues – such as pollution, water scarcity and biodiversity loss – as material to their business. This isn’t just a bureaucratic oversight. It is a systemic risk hiding in plain sight.

This paper critically examines the growing interest in de-extinction, sparked by recent advances in biotechnology, such as the creation of an organism partially resembling the extinct dire wolf. Whil...

Citizen science is increasingly used for data collection and public engagement, yet its adoption by natural resource practitioners remains underexplored. In this exploratory study based in Florida, w...

A new report reveals that while legal frameworks for community-led conservation exist in many countries, they are rarely implemented, with governments favoring top-down approaches. This oversight side...

This paper investigates the impact of biodiversity risk on corporate regulatory intensity of firms in the United States during 2007-2020. Using text-b…