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A recent UN biodiversity study said global environmental damage caused by human activity in 2008 totaled $6.6 trillion. A UN biodiversity conference aims to [...]

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AP / October 19, 2010 TOKYO — Delegates from more than 190 nations kicked off a UN conference yesterday aimed at ensuring the survival of diverse species [...]

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Unless steps are taken to reverse the loss of Earth's biodiversity, scientists warn that the rate of extinction will climb and natural habitats will be [...]

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The Guardian's Jonathan Watts describes China's new plan for wildlife preservation, unveiled as the UN COP10 talks on biodiversity begin in Nagoya. [...]

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The English countryside may be lovely this time of year, but those autumn leaves hide an alarming loss of biodiversity. David Hill puts the blame in part on [...]

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Nagoya, Japan - An international conference on biodiversity opened Monday in Nagoya to forge strategic goals to curb the rate of species extinction and [...]

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The Business and Biodiversity Offsets Program (BBOP) is preparing guidelines for the system under which companies would compensate for biodiversity lost [...]

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The report goes on to suggest that despite nationwide initiatives to slow the loss of biodiversity, the financial implications of such efforts may be vastly [...]

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Jane Smart, director of the International Union for Conservation of Nature's (IUCN) biodiversity conservation group said the UN biodiversity conference in [...]

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UN members in 2002 pledged to achieve a "significant reduction" in the rate of wildlife loss by this year, the International Year of Biodiversity. [...]

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The biodiversity convention doesn't have a particularly good track record. It has failed to reach global goals set in 2002 to make improvements in [...]

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Delegates from the United Nations (UN) met to discuss ways to protect plant and animal life as a 12-day international conference on biodiversity kicked off [...]

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The biodiversity convention does not have a particularly good track record. It has failed to reach global goals set in 2002 to make improvements in [...]

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It also found that changes in biodiversity as a result of human activities have been more rapid in the past 50 years than at any other time in human history [...]

9 Aug 2010 Biodiversity is the variety of life: the different plants, animals and micro-organisms, their genes and the ecosystems of which they are a [...]

Saving Species. Take a world-wide tour of biodiversity with three scientists. Take the surfboard challenge, and ride the waves of biodiversity! [...]

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The targets set out in 2002 to achieve “a significant reduction of the current rate of biodiversity loss at the global, regional and national level…” by 2010 were not met by any government, the report said. [...]

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They met at a conference in Middleham hosted by the Yorkshire Dales Biodiversity Forum, which is made up of the Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority (YDNPA), Government agencies, local history societies, academics and individuals. [...]

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A United Nations summit that will seek to preserve biodiversity on the planet will begin on Monday in Japan, rich and poor countries facing similar issues to those that have stalled negotiations on climate change. [...]

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18 October 2010 Last updated at 02:41 ET By Richard Black Environment correspondent, BBC News, Nagoya, Japan The UN biodiversity convention meeting has opened with warnings that the ongoing loss of nature is hurting human societies as [...]

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Delegates from across the world have gathered in the Japanese city of Nagoya today for a United Nations conference to discuss a new strategy to halt the alarming loss of the Earth's biodiversity, driven largely by human activity, [...]

AFP - The world must act immediately to stop the rapid loss of animal and plant species that allow humans to exist, the United Nations warned on Monday at the start of a major summit on biodiversity. [...]

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TOKYO (AFP) – An international meeting on biodiversity held in Japan Friday agreed on rules which hold businesses liable if genetically modified organisms they have imported pollute ecosystems, a report said. [...]

"We are into the opening stages of a human-caused biotic holocaust--a wholesale elimination of species--that could leave the planet impoverished for at least five million years." -- Norman Myers Back in 1992, we (that is, 172 earth governments) got together in Rio de Janeiro for the first Earth Summ [...]

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The most comprehensive report ever on the state of Canada's biodiversity calls for action to ''maintain functioning ecosystems" from BC's forests to the [...]