Ecosystem services are the multitude of benefits that people obtain from well-functioning ecosystems, encompassing the provision of food, materials and water; regulation of climate, air quality and ...

You may never have heard of ecosystem services, but you'd be hard-pressed to live without them. David Biello reports "I happen to hate the phrase ecosystem services, and my colleagues in business and ...

Free pollination services: a bee at an almond orchard in California. Randy Stiefer, CC BY-NC As a professor of ecology, I know all too well that there’s no shortage of environmental ills to keep us ...

While attending the CITES (Convention on Trade in Endangered Species) biodiversity summit in Nagoya, Japan, late last year, World Bank President Robert Zoellick said that we must foster development ...

One of the methods to assess Ecosystem Services (ES) - the benefits people obtain from ecosystems: the ES Matrix approach, has been increasingly used in the last decade. A review of its application ...

Moths move significantly less when exposed to artificial nighttime light, new research shows. Moths' attraction to artificial light, such as streetlights, is common knowledge and has been much studied ...

The term 'ecosystem services' is used increasingly in conservation. But does it actually serve its intended purpose? To break free of the limits imposed by the current technocratic governance of ...