A specimen from the genus Euglossa collected during the study in Rondônia, Brazil. Credit: K. Christopher Brown A survey of orchid bees in the Brazilian Amazon state of Rondônia, carried out in the ...

LAWRENCE — A survey of orchid bees in the Brazilian Amazon state of Rondônia, carried out in the 1990s, is shedding new light the impact of deforestation on the scent-collecting pollinators, which ...

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--MSCI Inc. (NYSE: MSCI), a leading provider of critical decision support tools and services for the global investment community, today announced the forthcoming launch of ...

A Princeton study reveals how the consumption of high-income nations drives biodiversity loss in other countries, responsible for 13.3% of all species range loss across the globe. Biodiversity loss ...

Afro-descendant peoples in Latin America have historically been guardians of nature, but their role could be more important ...

A new study finds that Afro-descendant communities in four Amazonian countries are linked to lands with high biodiversity and 29-55% less deforestation compared with protected and unprotected areas.

Madagascar is famous for its exceptional biodiversity, with many of its plants and animals found nowhere else. However, it is also one of the world’s lowest-income nations and this has put the ...

Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) made some changes to simplify the EU’s deforestation law, which was enacted in 2023 to ensure that products sold in the EU aren’t sourced from deforested land ...

In 2002, the majority of the world’s governments agreed “to achieve by 2010 a significant reduction of the current rate of biodiversity loss at the global, regional and national level…to benefit all ...