April 15 (UPI) --For more than 30 years, conservationists and policy makers have prioritized the protection of wilderness and intact habitat, acreage undisturbed by human activities. More recently, ...

Most of Earth’s terrestrial habitats have lost their ecological integrity, including areas previously categorised as being intact, a study published in the journal Frontiers in Forests and Global ...

While much research has focused on the striking differences in biodiversity between tropical and temperate regions, another, equally dramatic, pattern has gone largely unstudied: the differences in ...

A new study published in the journal Environmental Research Letters used satellite mapping data to analyze how changes in human footprint on the landscape between 1970 and 2018 overlapped with ...

The design of sustainable, long-term human settlements represents a multidisciplinary engineering and scientific grand challenge for humanity. Beyond the protection of Earth’s atmosphere, future space ...

We are making good progress towards going to the Moon and Mars. We are building new spacecraft, bringing astronauts to the International Space Station for extended stays and sending robots to Mars. To ...

The only thing constant is change – isn’t that how the saying goes? We know that wildlife in western forests evolved with changing habitat and disturbances like wildfire. Each species responds ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.— In response to a legal agreement with environmental groups, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and NOAA Fisheries today proposed to designate roughly 8,850 acres of beaches and ...

"In this second edition, 20 new sites have been added to the list. Many of the sites recognized in the first edition have been revised, some quite substantially."--Abstract. Abstract also in French.