A study reveals that national parks and reserves often support more wildlife but not necessarily the ecological balance that sustains them.

Our natural world is composed of a variety of ecosystems. Examples include forests, oceans, wetlands, prairies, scrub, deserts and lakes. Each manifests a combination of factors that influence what ...

Human enterprise is increasingly affecting biodiversity beyond outright species losses, causing changes in ecosystem functions and the services they deliver to human beings. However, few tools are ...

IPBES experts cite importance of 'co-production' of information with indigenous people With the planet losing species 100 to 1,000 times faster than the natural extinction rate, international experts ...

“Ecosystem” and “ecosystem building” have been hot terms in the world of entrepreneurial development lately. As cities begin to realize that fostering entrepreneurship is a great economic tool for ...

A food web is a detailed interconnecting diagram that shows the overall food relationships between organisms in a particular environment. The simplest explanation is that food webs are "who eats whom" ...

We live in an increasingly distributed business world in which organizations rely on timing and components in different parts of the world and in different time zones. To deliver greater value to ...

Payments for Ecosystems Services (PES) schemes are an underdeveloped component of the policy mix for catchment management in many countries. The importance of intermediaries to such schemes is ...