13-09-26 Teeming with species, tropical coral reefs have been long thought to be the areas of greatest biodiversity for fishes and other marine life -- and thus most deserving of resources for conservation. But a new global study of reef fishes reveals a sur...

13-06-19 Researchers conclude in a new report that a global push for small hydropower（水力发电） projects, supported by various nations and also the Kyoto Protocol to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, may cause unanticipated and potentially significant losse...

13-05-29 A new study, published 28 May in the open access journal PLOS Biology, has revealed the potential importance of rare species in the functioning of highly diverse ecosystems. Using data from three very different ecosystems -- coral reefs, tropical fo...

12-12-04 University of Florida scientists have co-authored a study describing a new Lepidoptera species found in Jamaica's last remaining wilderness. Belonging to the family of skipper butterflies, the new genus and species is the first butterfly discovered...

11-09-15 A team of researchers from Singapore, Australia, Switzerland, the UK and the USA has carried out a comprehensive assessment to estimate the impact of disturbance（干扰，骚乱） and land conversion on biodiversity in tropical forests. In a recent stud...

11-08-20 As biodiversity declines worldwide, there is concern that this will lead to declines in the services that ecosystems provide for people, such as food production, carbon storage, and water purification. But until now it has been unclear, whether just...

11-04-19 Active efforts are required to preserve biodiversity in the seas that far most people are in agreement. But in our enthusiasm to save uncommon species, we sometimes miss the common species that form the basis（基础，底部） of marine ecosystems. 'Cha...

10-12-01 The risk of dying from a heat wave is highest when heat waves occur early in the summer and are hotter and longer than usual, according to a Yale study published in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP). During the first heat wave of a...

10-07-30 In an unprecedented effort that will be published online on the 28th of July by the international journal Nature, a team of scientists mapped and analyzed global biodiversity patterns for over 11,000 marine species ranging from tiny zooplankton（浮...

09-11-03 More than a third of species assessed in a major international biodiversity study are threatened with extinction, s cientists have warned. 科学家警告，一项主要的国际生物多样性研究评估得出结论，超过三分之一的物种处于灭绝的危险之中。 The Kihansi spray...