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 ...

What: High-Level Knowledge Event on "Valuing the Green Wealth of Nations: Biodiversity and Carbon Credits, Ecosystem Services and Economic Productivity in Africa"Who: African Development Bank ...

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 ...

Biodiversity credits are the ecosystem services market closest to becoming commercially viable as a funding source in their own right, but for now most nature value is still being priced indirectly, ...

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 ...

What can we say about the effectiveness of payments for ecosystem services (PES) based on the available scientific literature? To find out, we examined 38 studies that represent the best evidence we ...

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 ...