Restoring degraded coastal ecosystems produces economic returns above and beyond short-term job creation and economic stimulus. As America’s coastal cities expanded throughout the 19th century, the ...

A research team has developed a novel framework to address the growing challenges of ecological security in cold regions, ...

A Perspective proposes a pathway to improvements in sustainability of marine ecosystems and resources in China. Based on environmental accounting used in China's terrestrial ecosystems, the approach ...

The Sargasso Sea ecosystem generates a variety of goods and services that benefit people. These goods and services, often referred to as ecosystem services, provide some outputs that are directly ...

This release is available in German. Brussels, 13 November 2009 - Policy makers who factor the planet's multi-trillion dollar ecosystem services into their national and international investment ...

The Biden administration’s 15-year agenda to make nature a measurable part of the country’s economy is moving forward. At a recent ocean biodiversity summit, federal officials touted the plan to ...

United Nations, European Commission, Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, United Nations Environment Programme, and World ...

In no other realm is the importance of biodiversity for sustainable development more essential than in the ocean. Marine biodiversity, the variety of life in the ocean and seas, is a critical aspect ...

Report highlights close link between economic development and the state of biodiversity and ecosystem services. The cost of not acting now to stem runaway nature loss is high, with poorer countries ...