
Researchers are discovering just how vital sea otters are to healthy ecosystems.

Researchers are discovering just how vital sea otters are to healthy ecosystems.

The Academy’s Stan Blum works in Biodiversity Informatics– he documents what lives where.

Healthy ecosystems often rely on secret agents. Not spies, but organisms that might not seem to have an obvious connection to a natural community.

How does biodiversity affect human health? Can we put a price tag on it?

We’re running out of time to find and discover all the species on Earth and the benefits they provide. Here’s a clever way to speed the process up!

Meet some of the new species that Academy researchers discovered last year.

What influences biodiversity? A staggering number of arthropods.

Conservation depends on this practice…

Biologically diverse algae cleanup streams!

Yes… but the ocean and its population will be very different.
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