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The Latest Breaking News from Biodiversity

Fundraising to protect oceans, forests and other key nature sites falling short ahead of UN summit

Promises by nations to spend hundreds of billions of dollars to finance nature and increase protections for oceans around the globe are falling short ahead of a key U.N. biodiversity conference

The Independent UK · 5h ago

‘Subsidising suicide’: UN chief urges governments to stop propping up polluting fossil fuels

Fossil fuels are 'boiling our planet', says Guterres. Yet COP31 hosts Türkiye and Australia are expanding them, a new report shows.

Euronews · 7h ago

Sod’s law: what can two turf swaps 40 years apart tell us about Britain’s biodiversity crisis?

In 1983, David Nash dug up a section of Kensington Gardens and swapped it with Welsh grassland. Four decades later, Mike Perry’s reverse swap revealed a striking reversal in the fortunes of urban and rural nature

The Guardian - UK · 8h ago

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Four years after the promises of Cop15, our biodiversity targets are slipping away

The world pledged to halt biodiversity loss by 2030, but as Cop17 delegates meet in Armenia next week the outlook is bleak and optimism has faded

The Guardian - UK · 12h ago

India's Legless Amphibians Live Entirely Underground and Go Unnoticed

What a Caecilian Actually IsCaecilians are the third order of amphibians, sitting alongside frogs and salamanders in the class Amphibia. They have no limbs, no visible ears, and eyes so reduced that in many species they sit beneath a thin layer of skin, functional enough to detect light but useless…

Times Life · 13h ago

Italian farmer gave up a third of her rice fields for wildlife

Alice Cerutti has converted part of her rice farm into natural habitats that support biodiversity. She grows historic rice varieties that are more resilient to climate change and drought. The wetlands on her farm have become a rare nesting site for the black-tailed godwit. Cerutti's approach prioritizes environmental restoration alongside…

The Times of India · 20h ago

The Night Frogs of Kerala: Species Found Nowhere Else on Earth

A Family Older Than the HimalayasThe family Nyctibatrachidae, Kerala's night frogs, diverged from all other frog lineages somewhere between 70 and 86 million years ago, when the Indian subcontinent was still a drifting landmass moving north across the Tethys Sea. The Himalayas did not exist yet. The frogs were already…

Times Life · Oct 15

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Why Frogs Are Vanishing From the Western Ghats and What Chytrid Fungus Is Doing to Them

A Biodiversity Hotspot Built on AmphibiansThe Western Ghats run for roughly 1,600 kilometres along India's western edge and hold more frog species per square kilometre than almost any other forest system on Earth. Of the approximately 180 amphibian species recorded there, around 65 percent exist nowhere else. Frogs are not…

Times Life · Oct 14

King Charles and Queen Camilla’s royal beehives produce honey sold to support charity

King Charles III and Queen Camilla manage beehives at Buckingham Palace and Clarence House for honey production. The honey serves culinary purposes in royal kitchens and supports charitable efforts through Queen Camilla's sales at Fortnum & Mason. Queen Camilla additionally supports the Bees for Development charity to promote beekeeping and…

The Times of India · Oct 13

‘Critical moment’: World leaders urged to course correct on nature protection ahead of COP17 summit

Game-changing global nature pact still has potential – but nations need to speed up progress, conservationists urge.

Euronews · Oct 12

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