Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in the Columbia River Gorge. She enjoys gardening, reporting on environmental topics, and spending her time outside ...

A landmark study into the geological timescale distribution of sediment and nutrients over 500 million years shows that species biodiversity on Earth is driven by landscape dynamics. Movement of ...

Trillions of trees are growing on Earth, though how many kinds there are has been underestimated, a new study finds. Earth hosts roughly 64,100 known tree species. But there could be at least 73,300 — ...

The Earth BioGenome Project aims to sequence all known eukaryotic species within 10 years. This illustration represents Earth’s continents and oceans as a DNA double helix of 32,111 bases, made up of ...

Sequencing the genomes of all plants, animals, fungi and other microbial life on Earth is a strategy to foster better understanding, management and restoration of biodiversity and ecosystem services.

Last year, the Half-Earth Project launched its “national report cards,” which show how much land is currently protected in each country, how many land vertebrate species (including endemics) each ...

The Jan. 7 commentary by Michael Melampy, “The passing of a giant, and an ecological lament,” is a must-read for everyone. The world lost a forward-thinking scientist with the death of Edward O.

Modern ocean biodiversity, which is at its highest level ever, was achieved through long-term stability of the location of so-called biodiversity hotspots, regions of especially high numbers of ...

Half-Earth is the notion that for humans to survive, we must retain earth’s waning biodiversity by reserving half the planet for nature, stabilizing large swaths of ocean, prairie, rainforest and ...

He’s usually the one doing the naming, having identified 65 previously unknown species. Now Alessandro Catenazzi has been named himself as the Half-Earth Chair. The E.O. Wilson Biodiversity Foundation ...