Researchers at McGill University have found that urbanization is weakening one of Earth's most enduring ecological patterns: the tendency for biodiversity to increase toward the tropics, a pattern known as the latitudinal diversity gradient.

In the 1970s, researchers began to observe drastic amphibian declines in Brazil's Atlantic Forest, a global hotspot of frog biodiversity. For decades, these disappearances remained a mystery. Now, new research from scientists at the Center for Conservation Genomics at the Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute (NZCBI) and Pennsylvania State University (PSU), published today in the journal Molecular Ecology, points to amphibian chytridiomycosis, a devastating infectious disease, as the likely culprit.

Scientists have announced a new genus of deep-sea segmented marine "spaghetti worms" with suction cups on their bodies, showing just how much undiscovered biodiversity is out there in the deep seas around Australia.

Experts say the discovery highlights how much of the natural world remains hidden, particularly in rich biodiversity hotspots like southwestern China.

SRINAGAR, Oct 14: Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha on Wednesday called for preserving the ecological balance in the Himalayas, as the region was not only a source for rivers but also a protector of biodiversity and a vital...

/PRNewswire/ -- atNorth, the leading Nordic high-density colocation and built-to-suit data center provider, today announced its participation in the UN...

Tiwai Island in Sierra Leone is a wildlife lover's paradise, offering a chance to explore its rich biodiversity

A vote on the permanent location and operationalization of the permanent Secretariat of the Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction Agreement will be taken

King Charles III and Queen Camilla’s royal beekeeping activities are linking honey production with charitable fundraising and wider biodiversity efforts.

The Nature Conservancy of Canada has acquired 814 square kilometres of boreal forest south of Kapuskasing. Ottawa is contributing $13 million to the $64-million project, announced ahead of the UN biodiversity summit.

Hikvision and Aramco have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to explore opportunities for collaboration in leveraging artificial intelligence and advanced imaging technologies to support...

MUMBAI, India, Oct. 12, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Afcons Infrastructure Limited has been honoured with the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) National Award for Environmental Best Practices 2026 in the category of Biodiversity Management for its work on the Mumbai-Ahmedabad High...

/PRNewswire/ -- Hikvision and Aramco have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to explore opportunities for collaboration in leveraging artificial...

Arunachal Pradesh Governor K T Parnaik urged Arunachal Pradesh University to strengthen academic standards, promote research on biodiversity and indigenous knowledge, and prepare students for real-world challenges. Vice Chancellor Ashan Riddi pledged to improve academic quality and governance.

Madagascar, an island nation off the southeast coast of Africa, is famous for its unique biodiversity and stunning landscapes

Électrique Caravane a passé cinq jours à Miramont-du-Guyenne pour finaliser « Panique sous terre », un film-spectacle mêlant objets miniatures, musique et vidéo pour sensibiliser à la biodiversité La

Author summary Repeated calculation of full-genome population genomic measurements for biodiversity monitoring across time and space remains expensive due to the need for high-coverage sequencing and genome assemblies. Genome skimming is a viable, low-coverage alternative for obtaining genomic distances, and alignment- and assembly-free methods exist for analyzing nuclear data from skimming data to estimate the distance between samples. However, existing methods fail to model within-sample heterozygosity, expected for diploid organisms. Given the dominance of diploidy among species of interest to ecologists, the implications of these simplifying assumptions warrant further study. Here, we present a mathematical model of the k-mer sets sampled from two diploid genomes under Kingman’s coalescent model. We use the model to develop DipSkmer, a k-mer-based, reference-free method for estimating genetic diversity that, unlike its predecessors, models within-sample heterozygosity. Benchmarking shows more accurate genomic diversity estimates compared to existing reference-free, genome-skimming methods and comparable performance to the popular high-coverage, reference-based method, ANGSD. Thus, DipSkmer enables accessible, less expensive population monitoring through genetic diversity estimates.

CROVA (Italy), Oct 13 — Four hundred years after monks transformed a patch of marshlands in northwest Italy into rice fields, farmer Alice Cerutti has restored a third to their...

Governor urges Arunachal University to focus research on biodiversity, indigenous knowledge - Itanagar, Oct 12 Arunachal Pradesh Governor Lt Gen K.T. Parnaik (Retd) on Monday urged Arunachal Pradesh University to ... Get Latest News on National only on lokmattimes.com

Ahead of COP17 in Armenia, South Africa is demanding accessible, non-debt biodiversity finance and technology transfer to turn global conservation commitments…