At the center of the book are the core principles that shape long-term global stability, focusing heavily on environmental integrity and the protection of natural systems that support life on Earth.

Worldwide landscapes are changing at an unprecedented pace. Forests are cleared, wetlands drained, and ecosystems degraded by ...

Ecological integrity assessment encompasses the systematic evaluation of an ecosystem’s capacity to sustain its native biotic communities, structural attributes and key processes over time. By ...

Of the world’s remaining forests, only 40% are intact, with high ecological integrity, according to data from a newly developed index that’s the first of its kind to measure forest conditions on a ...

Over 93% of the Earth’s best-quality and least-disturbed tropical forests have no legal protection from destruction, according to a study published in Nature Ecology and Evolution. Humid broadleaf ...

Only 40 per cent of forests are considered to have high ecological integrity, according to a new global measure, the Forest Landscape Integrity Index. The Index was created by 47 forest and ...

Freshwater ecosystems, including rivers, lakes, ponds, and wetlands, play a critical role in sustaining biodiversity, regulating biogeochemical cycles, and ...