Roughly a third of these are believed to be at some risk of extinction. The Earth's biodiversity is the result of 4 billion years of evolution — change in the inherited traits of a population of ...

So why should we be concerned about current extinction rates and conserving biodiversity ... lightweight fibers (Figure 4). Ecosystem services are processes provided by nature that support ...

Biodiversity is the variety of all living things ... hides an underground collection of over 2.4 billion seeds from around the world, banking them to conserve them for the future.

with higher biodiversity have fewer species that depend on just one other for food, shelter and maintaining their environment. With the example above, puffins could also eat molluscs and worms.

Together with the FAO, the IAEA assists Member States in developing and adopting nuclear-based technologies, such as the induced mutation technique, to optimise plant biodiversity and genetic ...

The United Nations biodiversity summit, known as COP16, comes amid growing concerns over plummeting populations of plants and animals, and damage to the habitats that sustain life on earth ...

Nature is disappearing at an alarming rate, with the built environment acknowledged as a significant contributor to the decline of biodiversity ... a very different type of gratification.