Tag: biodiversity

OECD: Renewable Energy Expansion Must Avoid New Ecological Trade-Offs

Overall, links between climate change and biodiversity are relatively well covered in national strategies, but the relationships involving pollution — including how climate and biodiversity pressures heighten pollution risks — are often missing. Policies designed to explicitly manage trade-offs, especially around pollution, remain limited.

Biodiversity Blueprint Set for 2026

If we seize this moment, the 2026 review can catalyse a new wave of finance (see Green Finance mechanisms in the UAE), innovation and policy coherence — and move us closer to the vision of a nature-positive world by 2050. If not, the checkpoint risks becoming another missed opportunity while ecosystems, livelihoods and economies continue to degrade.

Seychelles’ UNESCO island under threat from luxury development and Qatari-linked terror funds

The fate of Assomption Island may determine not just the survival of its biodiversity, but the integrity of Seychelles’ commitment to sustainable development in the face of land grabs and neo-colonialism by powerful foreign interests.

Play your cannabis plants some white noise?

Soil fungi likes to hear sounds to stimulate growth.

How bats help your babies

How bats are linked to the health of babies.

New guitarfish breeding ground found in the Mediterranean Sea

Guitarfish populations are in constant decline around the world, and in the Mediterranean Sea in particular, mainly as a result of net fishing. These fish are now classed at the highest level of extinction risk for vertebrates.

Where is the world’s most biodiversity? Follow the rain

In a research first, rain is found as the best indicator and driver of biodiversity.

Antarctic pollution by researchers surfaces in new report

Antarctic research stations are as polluting as some of the world's busiest harbors.

Starting a seed bank at home

Starting a seed bank at home is a great way to preserve family traditions of food and gardening. You don't need to be a biologist or forester: Many families have unique heirloom seeds that have been passed down from generation to generation.

Meet the Mountain People of the Middle East

A joint study found that mountain ecosystems are becoming increasingly fragile, under pressure from changes to land use and climate, overexploitation, pollution, demographic shifts and other factors which threaten livelihoods and food security.

Creating a World Seed Bank? Meet the UN in Rome

Emer wheat is one of the world's oldest cultivated grains. What about plant diversity in this species and thousands of others? How can we hold onto the past for our future? We need a world seed vault.

Crowdsourcing nature reserves to save the yellow-tailed woolly monkey

We did this when I was a kid at high-school: raise hotdog money or donations to buy rainforest in...