According to GEO, more than half of the world’s ecosystems are unmapped, making it a challenge to keep track of protection efforts and restoration targets. The organization is now working to ...

But unlike those other ecosystems, she notes ... much of West Africa was a blank spot on the world’s seagrass map. Just a handful of years ago, many officials at Sierra Leone’s Environment ...

Chinese scientists are mapping the deepest marine ecosystem, uncovering the secrets of life on the ocean floor, Azernews ...

All over the world, ecosystems are threatened. From forests and drylands to farmlands and lakes, natural spaces on which humanity’s existence depends are reaching a tipping point. According to ...

A variety of ecosystems are spread across the world, each with distinctive interacting characteristics and components. They range from small (eg a freshwater pond) to global (eg the desert biome).

Wetlands are disappearing three times faster than forests and are Earth’s most threatened ecosystem. In just 50 years — since 1970 — 35% of the world’s wetlands have been lost. Human ...