Biodiversity, Protected Areas, Nature Conservation

In journals, new research is primarily published in English. But, as a new international study shows: academic publications in other languages, often ignored to date, can help to preserve our planet’s biological diversity. A team of 60 researchers, led by the University of Queensland, analyzed...

Moors cover three percent of our planet’s land surface, but store twice as much carbon as all forests combined. But if peat is extracted and the moorland soils are drained, they can become veritable carbon dioxide factories.

In Germany, natural moors once covered an area as large as...

New targets for preserving biodiversity will likely be formulated at the UN Biodiversity Conference this October; although some goals have successfully been reached, species continue to die out. Consequently, researchers around the globe have called for ideally declaring 50 percent, or at least...

Although more than 16 percent of all national waters are now protected, many ecoregions and countries are not included. The current reserve system is just as expensive as it is inefficient, as Dr. Kerstin Jantke and her team show in a study recently released by Universität Hamburg’s Center for...