Ecosystem

Humanity impacts the planet's biodiversity in multiple ways, both deliberate and accidental.

A new investigation of satellite records reveals that the Earth is getting greener, despite ongoing deforestation in Indonesia and South America.

Deforestation rates in the Brazilian Amazon have plummeted 80% in the last decade thanks to the establishment of new protected areas, satellite monitoring of deforestation, cooperation by agricultu…

A new study, co-authored by University of Arizona researchers and published in the Sept. 1 issue of Nature, provides the first quantitative assessment of how environmental policies on deforestation, along ...

Humans affect ecosystems both directly and indirectly, and these effects can range from minimal to catastrophic. Through fossil fuel combustion, humans have disturbed the makeup of the breathable air, changed the quality of the soil and water and have altered the types and distributions of plants and animals around ...

Effectively managed protected areas are a critical tool for safeguarding biodiversity, maintaining ecosystem balance, and providing many other benefits to wildlife and human health.

How is biodiversity essential to humans? We couldn't survive without it! Biodiversity supplies food, shelter, medicine and so much more to humans.For more bi...

Ecosystem services are contributions of ecosystems to human well-being, and have an impact on our survival and quality of life.

There are many places where reforestation simply won’t work, and that’s when ecosystem services come into play. Take, for example, NYC's Newtown Creek.