biodiversity

AI has untapped potential to advance biodiversity conservation

A new study from McGill University researchers suggests the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to rapidly analyze vast amounts of…

10 months ago

How Human Activity Fuels Pandemics: Climate Change and Biodiversity at the Core

The rise in pandemics has been attributed to disruptions caused by human activities to the planet's ecosystems. Infectious diseases, which…

1 year ago

Loss of ‘nitrogen fixers’ threatens biodiversity, ecosystems

Mississippi State University is part of a European-American collaboration studying how human activities, like fertilizer use and polluting, are impacting…

1 year ago

Scientists devise method to secure Earth’s biodiversity on the moon

New research led by scientists at the Smithsonian proposes a plan to safeguard Earth's imperiled biodiversity by cryogenically preserving biological…

2 years ago

Ecologists reconstruct the history of biodiversity in the Indo-Australian archipelago and its rise as a hotspot

The Coral Triangle, also known as the Indo-Australian Archipelago, is renowned for having the greatest marine biodiversity on our planet.…

2 years ago

Acidity of Antarctic waters could double by century’s end, threatening biodiversity

The acidity of Antarctica's coastal waters could double by the end of the century, threatening whales, penguins and hundreds of…

2 years ago

Decreasing biodiversity may promote spread of viruses

How are environmental changes, loss of biodiversity, and the spread of pathogens connected? The answer is a puzzle. Researchers from…

2 years ago