Functioning ecosystems provide the basis for security, basic material needs, health, social interaction and individual liberty. This is how the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment 2005 described it, ...

Concerted action is required to mitigate the impact of warming on polar ecosystems and sustainably manage these unique habitats. Polar regions contain vast, undiscovered biodiversity but are both the ...

Conservation scientist Trond Larsen and his team trekked through a remote forest in Liberia, recording the plants, animals, and insects that they saw. They noted whether the forest was intact or ...