Reflecting on a decade of IPBES assessments, the outgoing Executive Secretary identifies the scientific priorities—systems thinking, transformative change, and business engagement—needed to accelerate...

And why you should let them share your picnic ham and jam.

Reflecting on a decade of IPBES assessments, the outgoing Executive Secretary identifies the scientific priorities—systems thinking, transformative change, and business engagement—needed to…

COLOMBO —  As dusk settled over the paddy fields at Puwakpitiya, a village on the northern edge of Knuckles Mountain Range locally known as Dumbara mountains in Central Sri Lanka, researchers began…

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By evaluating the health of waterways across the U.S., researchers have identified a network encompassing about one-third of rivers and streams that, if conserved and restored, could sustain the natio...

In Utrecht, around 65 volunteers are mapping an entire agricultural landscape. DAISY explores how citizen science, digital technology and governance can work together to turn landscape monitoring into...

There’s a paper out that's worth getting to grips with if you are interested in genebanks having an impact, even though it never actually mentions genebanks. David Pannell’s Reflections on Adoption of...

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Le rapport évalue quelles données et systèmes sont actuellement disponibles et nécessaires pour calculer les indicateurs du cadre de suivi du Cadre mondial de Kunming-Montréal, et également la capacit...

Coral reefs are experiencing bleaching events so ​frequently that they no longer have time to recover before the next one strikes, with global coral cover ‌now well below normal levels and at risk of irreversible decline, scientists said on Monday.

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