2026

Critics say switch to tins comprising more sustainable species risks confusing consumers

The effects of building systems that are out of sync with our environment are becoming all too clear

Sculpin are masters of camouflage and only the most discerning of observers will ever spot one.

The term ‘paper park’ is widely used to label protected areas that only exist ‘on paper’. Identifying and rectifying paper parks could be critical for…

Aim To synthesise current understanding of overfitting as a pervasive and often underdiagnosed problem in correlative ecological niche models (ENMs), and to assess its consequences for model interpr...

Studies predicting extinction risk come to different conclusions if their analyses use different temporal extents.

Since the Last Glacial Maximum, sea-level rise has isolated, fragmented, and shrunk islands, supersaturating squamate communities and triggering ongoing community relaxation. Integrating a paleo-coas...

Naturalist says he has been ‘overwhelmed by greetings’ as milestone is marked with event at Royal Albert Hall David Attenborough said he had been “completely overwhelmed by birthday greetings” for his centenary on Friday and thanked wellwishers “most sincerely”. The naturalist said he had hoped to celebrate his 100th birthday quietly. Instead, the milestone will be marked with a live event at the Royal Albert Hall broadcast on BBC One, featuring music from his programmes as well as stories and reflections from public figures and leading advocates for the natural world. In a recorded audio message shared on Thursday night, Attenborough said: “I had rather thought that I would celebrate my 100th birthday quietly, but it seems that many of you have had other ideas. Continue reading...

Climate change and biodiversity loss are among the most pressing challenges facing our world. In response, many people are turning to renewable energy sources (e.g., sunlight, wind, and moving water),...

The two species of African elephants are facing severe declines. Here, authors assess their continent-wide genomic diversity, identifying differences in their evolutionary histories and highlighting t...

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Renewable energy (RE) is crucial in fighting climate change but can overlap with other human-induced threats to biodiversity. We assess associations b…

Despite taxonomic and spatial biases, substantial conservation evidence is available to support decision-making by practitioners, particularly for the most prevalent and severe threats. Given the cur...

As rewilding initiatives grow there’s a concern some risk doing more harm than good

Using high-resolution paleoclimate reconstructions, we quantified habitat stability for Central African rainforests across 257 time slices since the early Pleistocene. Stacked projections of forest-d...

Hothouse Earth. A very unsafe operating space for human beings -- indeed, totally uninhabitable. As Earth warms, at an increasing pace, invisible points of no return transgressed, that’s where we may ...

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Both life history traits and habitat availability play a role.

Katherine Richardson og kolleger advarer i nyt studie mod de store havstrømmes kollaps. Og taler for hurtige adfærdsændringer og cirkulær økonomi

Earth’s climate is now departing from the stable conditions that supported human civilization for millennia. Crossing critical temperature thresholds may trigger self-reinforcing feedbacks and tipping dynamics that amplify warming and destabilize distant Earth system components. Uncertain tipping thresholds make precaution essential, as crossing them could commit the planet to a hothouse trajectory with long-lasting and potentially irreversible consequences.

Ny rapport fra IPBES advarer om, at biodiveristetstab truer erhvervslivets fremtid. Rapporten bør være et stort »wake-up call«, lyder det fra Danmarks repræsentant i IPBES.

Abstract. Exploring the evolution of gene networks associated with metabolic/energetic homeostasis can yield key insights into the adaptive landscapes gove

Aim To assess whether newly described species are more likely to be threatened and have smaller ranges than known species. Location Global. Methods In this study, we focus on the timing of speci...

Las poblaciones de Svalbard han mantenido su condición corporal a pesar de haber perdido más de tres meses de mar helado al año

Nature Reviews Biodiversity, Published online: 27 January 2026; doi:10.1038/s44358-025-00126-wScientists disagree about area-based conservation’s role in addressing biodiversity loss. This Perspective examines how conservation scientists, land systems scientists and political ecologists approach these debates differently and argues that environmental data justice frameworks can bridge epistemic divides, helping researchers to develop more effective and equitable conservation interventions.

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The Red List is one of the most important and widely used sources of biodiversity information, providing conservation assessments for nearly 160,000 s…

Recently, my paper “Depth Matters for Marine Biodiversity” was published in the Journal of Biogeography—and to my great delight, it also ended up on the cover of the December issue. Even more...