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…

Urbanization and biodiversity loss have reduced human contact with the diverse microbiomes found in natural environments. Exposure to environmental microbes supports the normal development and regulation of the immune system. This reduction in exposure is considered a contributing factor to the rising prevalence of allergies, asthma, type 1 diabetes and other immune-mediated diseases.

ENCHANTED Kingdom (EK), the first and only world-class theme park in the Philippines, renews its commitment to sustainability and biodiversity as it celebrates its 31st anniversary with the second set of enhancements of its award-winning flying theater, Agila The EKsperience: Saribuhay, this October.

Cofinancé par l’Agence française de développement (AFD) et l’Union européenne, le programme Ihyae mobilise neuf consortiums pour accompagner des projets d’agroécologie et d’entrepreneuriat agricole dans les régions de l’Oriental, de Fès-Meknès et de Souss-Massa. Un dispositif d’assistance technique de 36 mois est prévu pour assurer le suivi administratif, financier et opérationnel des initiatives retenues. Le […]

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 natural state, prioritizing biodiversity over crop yield.

Les drones permettent d’atteindre des parcelles noyées et difficiles d’accès pour y planter un couvert végétal destiné au pâturage ou à devenir un engrais naturel. La Compagnie nationale du Rhône soutient financièrement cette expérience d’agroécologie à travers le projet « Rizilien...

Bhubaneswar, Oct 12 (PTI) The NHAI has planted 5.20 lakh saplings across Odisha over the past four months to expand green cover and promote biodiversity along highway corridors, an official statement said on Monday. The plantation drive includes initiatives such as the ‘Arogya Van’ programme, bee corridor plantations, median greening and community plantation activities, the […]

India’s changing bird populations are altering not only ecosystems, but also the unique linguistic framework and cultural knowledge associated with them

India and South Africa have similar views on the need to protect medicinal plants and preserve biodiversity, South African deputy minister of forestry,