The Southern Ocean circles Antarctica and remains one of the most pristine and ecologically rich oceans on earth. Its richness has attracted a growing number of industrial fishing fleets, which are harvesting toothfish and krill,

Two thirds of the crops humans use for food production and the majority of wild plant species depend on pollination by insects such as bees and hover-flies. This ecosystem service, however, provided by nature to

Ocean health index provides first global assessment combining natural and human dimensions of sustainability Using a new comprehensive index designed to assess the benefits to people of healthy oceans, scientists have evaluated the ecological, social,

Rick Smith didn’t set out to save the honeybees. Elevator B rises from the industrial wasteland of Buffalo, New York. But it’s not just art, it’s also what might be the most beautiful working beehive

Unfortunately this unique habitat is the latest victim of government budget cuts. Fabien Cousteau paid a visit to Sylvia Earle and the underwater base in danger of losing its funding, and says that the work

Think of parks as arks . . . The 14 years of wildlife studies in and around Madagascar’s Ranomafana National Park by Sarah Karpanty, associate professor of wildlife conservation at Virginia Tech’s College of Natural

Coastal ecosystems store carbon, conserve biodiversity and help protect local economies such as fishing for a nominal cost Found along the edges of much of the world’s tropical coastlines, mangroves are absorbing carbon dioxide from

IT’S past time to tell the truth about the state of the world’s coral reefs, the nurseries of tropical coastal fish stocks. They have become zombie ecosystems, neither dead nor truly alive in any functional

The Inclusive Wealth Indicator India and Brazil have had explosive growth over the last decade. Or have they? A new measurement of the true wealth of nations finds that what countries give up for a

New Study Sheds Light On Debate Over Organic Vs. Conventional Agriculture Can organic agriculture feed the world? Although organic techniques may not be able to do the job alone, they do have an important role

Crop losses due to fungal attack challenge food security and threaten biodiversity More than 600 million people could be fed each year by halting the spread of fungal diseases in the world’s five most important

Small-scale, family-based farming systems were among the most productive systems in developing countries   The Prince of Wales, himself a long-time farmer, argues against the fallacy that truly sustainable farming isn’t feasible in “the real world.”