An international team of researchers led by Prof. MA Keping from the Institute of Botany of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (IBCAS) has shown that forests with higher tree species richness tend to ...

(Beyond Pesticides, February 10, 2026) Species that are integral to pest management allow for crucial ecosystem services that negate the need for pesticides in agricultural or land management ...

Insects and spiders often receive little attention from people, except when we're swatting them away. However, as arthropods - creatures distinguished by a hard exoskeleton and jointed legs - they ...

Sharp diversity decline: South Korea recorded a 61% drop in airborne arthropod diversity over a decade, with moths and butterflies hit hardest. Global comparison: Similar German forests showed no ...

A new study published in Nature, led by ecologists from the School of Biological Sciences (SBS) at The University of Hong Kong (HKU), finds that intensifying El Niño events, driven by climate change, ...

“The truth is that we’re all living with this vast diversity of arthropods and the majority of them are not overtly harmful,” study coauthor Michelle Trautwein of the California Academy of Sciences ...

Any scientist and informed person will tell you that climate change is detrimentally affecting the world in ways that we can measure, and in ways that we have yet to learn. We have all seen the polar ...