Researchers writing a new article examine four possible explanations for why human well-being is increasing despite the global degradation of ecosystem services. Gains in food production, ...

Much of the beauty—and challenge—of biology lies in its complexity. That's especially true in the microbial world, where ...

Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. A forest ecosystem is the basic ecologic unit in a particular forest that ...

One in five countries are at risk of their ecosystems collapsing, threatening more than half of global GDP (US$42 trillion, or £32 trillion), according to recent research. This scary sounding ...

The common platform heralds a new era of global conservation and management policy applications. A global cross-disciplinary team of scientists led by UNSW Sydney researchers has developed the first ...