Biodiversity

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A weird group of boronias puzzled botanists for decades. Now we’ve...

Boronias, known for their showy flowers and strong scent, are a quintessential part of the Australian bush. They led...
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Biodiversity change under human depopulation in Japan

Study areaAlongside other countries, over the past 100 years, significant loss of natural and semi-natural habitat has occurred in Japan, mainly because of...
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Status of endangered large prey predators following civil unrest in a...

Ceballos, G. et al. Accelerated modern human–induced species losses: entering the sixth mass extinction. Sci. Adv. 1, 1400253 (2015).ADS  ...
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Ancient fossils show how the last mass extinction forever scrambled the...

About 66 million years ago – perhaps on a downright unlucky day in May – an asteroid smashed into...
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Australia’s government is pledging better protection for our vulnerable seas – but...

Ahead of this week’s crucial United Nations ocean conference, federal Environment Minister Murray Watt promised that by 2030, 30%...
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Assessing coverage of the monitoring framework of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity...

Since the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) was opened for signature in 1992 (ref. 1), three sequential decadal plans have been adopted to...
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