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 ...

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 ...