Humans are having a highly detrimental impact on biodiversity worldwide. Not only is the number of species declining, but the composition of species communities is also changing. These are the ...

Environmental genomics has focused mainly on prokaryotes, leaving microbial eukaryote diversity poorly understood. Using ~20,000 mitochondrial genomes from 3,400 lake metagenomes worldwide, this study ...

A new paper, the Ocean Species Discoveries (OSD), describes a ground-breaking experiment that united 25 independent taxonomists from ten countries. The initiative boasts the discovery of eleven new ...

To better understand what drives biological diversity on Earth, scientists have historically looked at genetic differences between species. But this only provides part of the picture. The traits of a ...

There are approximately 8.7 million species of plants, animals and other living beings around us that make up the biodiversity of planet Earth. Nearly 1 million of them face extinction in the coming ...

Through the federal Building Canada Act, “projects of national interest” are being fast-tracked while hundreds of major resource projects are already under construction or planned in the next decade.