Palm oil has a bad reputation - but is coconut oil worse?...A new study argues coconut production poses a threat to biodiversity - including vertebrates, arthropods, mollusks, and plants - five times greater than palm oil.
Our study, published today in Nature, seeks to change that. Using a new "ecological informatics" approach, we've drawn together every available recorded visit by humans to the continent, over its 200 year history.
"This report unequivocally tells us that the time to finance nature—for people and for planet—is now." That's how Jamison Ervin, manager of the Global Program on Nature for Development at the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), summed up a new study commissioned by Campaign for Nature (CFN
Global concern has risen around the "sustainability" of palm oil in terms of global exportation and the impact on the environment in recent years.
A team of scientists has warned that the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), designed to bring together environmental protection and socioeconomic development, are failing to protect biodiversity.
Researchers at the University of Turku have discovered 40 new species so far this year, including 17 spiders, 23 insects, one millipede, and one lizard. In addition, the experts have described four genera that were previously unknown.
Since 1974, the world has celebrated World Environment Day every year on 5 June, engaging and encouraging governments, businesses, and citizens of the world to focus their efforts on a pressing environmental issue. This year, the focus shifts to biodiversity, and in the midst of this global pande
The Biodiversity and Protected Areas Programme (BIOPAMA) is conducting a global review of the impacts of COVID-19 on area based conservation measures. This has been requested by the European Commission (EC) to guide policy development and prioritise support activities.
There is a single species that is responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic - us.
The vast illegal wildlife trade and humanity’s excessive intrusion into nature is to blame for the coronavirus pandemic, according to a leading US scientist who says “this is not nature’s revenge, we did it to ourselves”.