WWF’s Natural Capital Alliance integrates ecosystem services into decision-making for sustainable development.

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology and the University of Kiel have provided experimental evidence ...

Two impact investing leaders explore how to reconcile the many benefits of nature with the existing metrics of today's ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

Humans have been modifying natural environments for millennia, leading to a deep co-evolution between social and natural systems. As a result, areas ...

Too often, one ecosystem is overlooked in value and complexity in the workings of our planet. The images of a leveled forest or polluted waterway resonate much more strongly than the increasing ...

Sphagnum peat mosses have an extraordinary impact on the global carbon cycle as they control long-term carbon sequestration in boreal peatland ecosystems. Sphagnum species engineer peatlands, which ...

Losing critical ecosystems will severely impact the economy through reduced food and energy security; damages to assets such as real estate, croplands and infrastructure; and health risks that impair ...

Creating a bioactive habitat with students can give them a window into the natural world while easing the upkeep for class ...

Perspectives on nature's services / John Peterson Myers, Joshua S. Reichert -- Introduction: What are ecosystem services? / Gretchen C. Daily -- Ecosystem services: a fragmentary history / Harold A.