Ecology

• Efforts to sustain biodiversity fall short

  But the issue is gaining attention as nations prepare for next year's summit.

  18 November 2009

• Biodiversity: Biodiversity's bright spot

  While species losses mount worldwide, conservationists in Brazil have made great strides towards saving the golden lion tamarin and its forest habitat from destruction. Gene Russo reports.

  18 November 2009

• Biodiversity: Putting a price on nature - Premium content

  Gretchen Daily knows the value of ecosystems — but can ascribing financial worth to them help to maintain biodiversity? Emma Marris meets an ecosystem-services evangelist.

  18 November 2009

• Biodiversity: On the origin of bar codes - Premium content

  Genetic sequences in a cell's mitochondria can be used to accurately determine species. Could this be because they are responsible for creating what they identify? Nick Lane investigates.

  18 November 2009

• Darwin's finches tracked to reveal evolution in action - Premium content

  A new species of finch may have arisen in the Galapagos.

  16 November 2009

• How the sponge stays slim - Premium content

  One species' rapid cell shedding explains its huge carbon-catching capacity.

  16 November 2009

• Snapshot: Glider eavesdrops on whales - Premium content

  Probe tunes in to cetacean song.

  11 November 2009

• Whale-song recording goes deep - Premium content

  Underwater glider eavesdrops on cetacean communication.

  9 November 2009

• Conservation biology: Reflecting the past

  Unsatisfied with merely halting environmental destruction, some conservationists are trying to reconstruct ecosystems of the past. Emma Marris travels back in time with the rewilders.

  4 November 2009

• US habitat rule threatens species - Premium content

  Conservationists call for change to Bush-era definition of 'endangered'.

  3 November 2009