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This Earth Day, remember that there is only one Planet Earth. Credit - Brandon Huffman (CC BY-SA 4.0) This Earth Day, remember that there is only one Planet Earth. Credit - Brandon Huffman (CC BY-SA 4 ...

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Scientists assessing the level of diversity among bee species necessary for sustaining populations of wild plants have concluded that ecosystems rely on many bee species to flourish, not just a few ...

In a study published in Systematic Biology, researchers from Imperial College London, UCL, Dalhousie University and the United Nations Environment Program World Conservation Monitoring Center ...

In a recent study published in Science, an international team of researchers led by Stanford University examine how habitat destruction and climate change means the goal of protecting 90 percent of ...

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 ...