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Area-based conservation targets aimed at stopping and reversing global biodiversity loss are set to form an integral part of the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework discussions later this year.

To ensure food security, the world must stop letting fertile soil wash and blow away. Soil creates life from death. The production of more than 95% of the food we eat relies on soil...Yet this precious resource is eroding at a global average of 13.5 tonnes per hectare per year.

In many places, Indigenous communities are working to restore seaweed species that have been traditional food sources or supported traditional diets. From kelp farms in Alaska to seaweed-focused community education in Hawai‘i, the projects take many forms.

Researchers studying coral reefs damaged by rising sea temperatures have discovered an unexpected 'bright spot' of hope for communities who depend upon them for food security.

Confining conservation efforts to only 30% of Earth’s land may render a fifth of mammals and a third of birds at high risk of extinction, according to a new study.

Residents of Baniata village on the Solomon Islands’ Western province practice an ancient agroforestry system that intercrops 20 edible species and features the ngali nut, a delicacy sold in domestic and international markets.

Grand global commitments to plant trees to fight climate change are welcome. Healthy landscapes that suck planet-heating carbon out of the atmosphere—locking it into forests and soils—are among the best technologies there are yet to bend the Keeling Curve in a new direction.

Commonwealth countries can find a balance between human progress and environmental protection. Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama made this call at the Commonwealth pavilion yesterday afternoon during the COP26 meeting.

The benefits of sustainably managed wild fisheries, which support food and nutritional security, livelihoods, and cultures, are being undermined by government payments that incentivise overcapacity and lead to overfishing, biodiversity degradation and loss, and CO2 emissions, the scientists argue