biodiversity

BRUSSELS – The Iberian lynx that prowls the grasslands of southern Spain. The Mediterranean monk seal swimming waters off Greece and Turkey. The Bavarian pine vole that forages in the high meadows of the Alps. These are among hundreds of European animal species — up to a quarter of the total...

U.N. convention on biodiversity convenes NAGOYA, Japan, -- The loss of global biodiversity is threatening human societies as well as the natural world, a United Nations convention in Japan has been told. The warning came at the start of a two-week meeting in Nagoya of the U.N.'s...

SYDNEY – A thumbnail-sized frog with a long snout, a brilliant green katydid with bright pink eyes and a mouse with a white-tipped tail are among 200 species scientists have discovered in Papua New Guinea. The findings were unveiled this week by Washington D.C.-based Conservation International...