As the world’s nations prepare to set new goals for protecting biodiversity, Yale researchers have identified where data gaps continue to limit effective conservation decisions. In a new study, a team ...

Never has knowledge of the world’s biodiversity knowledge been more at your fingertips, thanks to a new smartphone app: the Map of Life. No matter where you are, the app can tell you what species of ...

Observed species richness derived from the distributions of 44,575 marine and 22,830 terrestrial species (figure a). Species richness is ln-transformed and rescaled within each domain (terrestrial and ...

STARKVILLE, Miss.—A Mississippi State scientific illustrator and ant curator is contributing to a global insect map, while also using his talent to design cover art for a leading scientific journal.

With nearly every step, we move above a vast underground network of fungal filaments, an ancient communication system that predates human civilization by hundreds of millions of years. Now, scientists ...

The jaguar cubs that first appeared on a camera trap in Argentina’s Iberá wetlands in 2022 were a quiet win for the whole planet. Argentina was home to hundreds of thousands of jaguars when Europeans ...

Researchers have combined data from around the world with predictions from machine learning to create a high-resolution map of ant diversity, revealing areas that should be the focus of exploration ...

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It’s taken four years, 200 people and $150,000, but now, says Dr Hayley Clements, “we have this phenomenal map that shows us the state of biodiversity across sub-Saharan Africa. It’s beautiful. It’s ...

Aug. 30 (UPI) --Newly published maps have detailed the six major threats to terrestrial amphibians, birds and mammals, including agriculture, hunting and trapping, logging, pollution, invasive species ...

As the world's nations prepare to set new goals for protecting biodiversity, researchers have identified where data gaps continue to limit effective conservation decisions. As the world's nations ...