Even though scientists have been collecting evidence of human impacts on biodiversity for decades, the overall trajectory of biodiversity in a world dominated by human activity has remained ...

The honey they produce, which humans have grown to love and enjoy, is also worth millions. What is biodiversity loss? As important as biodiversity is, it's come under significant threat.

Long-term exposure to excessive noise can impact our sleep patterns, cardiovascular systems, cognitive function and more. Unfortunately, it has many of the same effects on the native species in ...

In fact, the current age of life is literally defined by our influence on the planet: The Anthropocene — The Age of Humans.” Now, those impacts aren’t always negative.

Human impacts on biodiversity “will be seen in the fossil record,” she says. “Whether or not it’s going to be up there in the top six is really a matter of what we do next.” ...

Cumulative human impacts on global marine fauna highlight risk to biological and functional diversity. PLOS ONE, 2024; 19 (9): e0309788 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0309788 ...

Therefore, we propose the adoption of Human Appropriation of Net Primary Production (HANPP), i.e., biomass use, as one of two metrics when assessing human impacts on biodiversity." ...

Therefore, we propose the adoption of Human Appropriation of Net Primary Production (HANPP), i.e., biomass use, as one of two metrics when assessing human impacts on biodiversity.

A new investigation led by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine’s Human Genome Sequencing Center, the Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, Spain, and ...