biodiversity

A new study published in Science heralds a prolonged and inevitable loss of biodiversity throughout the 21st century. However, it offers new hope: the phenomenon could slow down if the right policies are adopted immediately.

The next time you walk through Manhattan or Broadway in New York, don't forget to look down. A team of scientists has shown that an important part of the wealth of this city is the diversity of ants that inhabit it.

"Rivers in crisis" warns the cover of the latest issue of the journal Nature. The figures in the report you refer to are staggering: environmental stress, agricultural runoff, pollution and invasive species threaten the rivers that serve 80% of the world's population.

Protecting the few specimens of a species about to disappear is a difficult task. Now, thanks to a GPS system, you can know their exact location anywhere in the world and in what situation they are. The organization responsible for this initiative is WWF.

German primatologists have discovered a rare species of ape in the tropical forests between Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia, recognizable by its song. It is a crested gibbon, one of the most endangered primates in the world, which they have named Nomascus annamensis.

There are barely 3,500 tigers left in the wild in the world, and the number of females with the capacity to procreate does not reach a third of the population, warns an alarming study published in the latest issue of the journal 'PLoS Biology'.

The world's freshwater turtle population has recently been depleted by progressive habitat loss, the lucrative pet trade and hunting for food. According to a new report from Conservation International, action is urgently needed to save them from extinction.

The rise in sea water temperatures in Indonesia has led to the bleaching of 60 percent of the coral on the reef located in North Sumatra, one of the most diverse in the world, according to an article published by the Society for the Conservation of the Wild Life (WCS).