Climate warming is considered to be among the most serious of anthropogenic stresses to
the environment, because it not only has direct effects on biodiversity, but it also exacerbates …

There have been five Mass Extinction events in the history of Earth's biodiversity, all caused
by dramatic but natural phenomena. It has been claimed that the Sixth Mass Extinction may …

Insects are the most diverse group of animals on Earth, but their small size and high diversity
have always made them challenging to study. Recent technological advances have the …

Knowledge on the distribution and abundance of organisms is fundamental to
understanding their roles within ecosystems and their ecological importance for other taxa …

Nature is under siege. In the last 10,000 y the human population has grown from 1 million to
7.8 billion. Much of Earth's arable lands are already in agriculture (1), millions of acres of …

Abstract Integrated Pest Management (IPM) provides an illustration of how crop protection
has (or has not) evolved over the past six decades. Throughout this period, IPM has …

Major declines in insect biomass and diversity, reviewed here, have become obvious and
well documented since the end of World War II. Here, we conclude that the spread and …

Agriculture is in crisis. Soil health is collapsing. Biodiversity faces the sixth mass extinction.
Crop yields are plateauing. Against this crisis narrative swells a clarion call for Regenerative …

In this ambitious successor to The Great Derangement, acclaimed writer Amitav Ghosh finds
the origins of our contemporary climate crisis in Western colonialism's violent exploitation of …

The ongoing sixth mass species extinction is the result of the destruction of component
populations leading to eventual extirpation of entire species. Populations and species …