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Artist's Incredibly Detailed Biodiversity Illustrations Merge Art With Science "People will protect what they know, and what they have come to love," says artist Zoe Keller.
Courtesy of the Biodiversity Heritage Library Botanical illustrations offer mesmerizingly detailed and vividly colored glimpses of the natural world.
If you’re looking for a new wallpaper, a tattoo idea, or just an amazing time scrolling through illustrations from the past, the Biodiversity Heritage Library holds a treat for you. Its ...
Scientists want to create a repository on the moon to preserve biological material from Earth. Lunar temperatures and the orb ...
Rising mountain peaks and sharp rock formations cover the ocean floor, with corals, sponges, fish, and tons of sea creatures clinging to their sides. Unlike mountains on land that dare climbers and ...
The free images, uploaded courtesy of the Biodiversity Heritage Library, include animal sketches, historical diagrams, botanical studies, and scientific research.
“The current perception that climate change is the principal threat to biodiversity is at best premature,” the authors wrote.
Artist's Fantastical Paper Installations Are a 'Love Song' to Earth's Biodiversity These imaginary landscapes of flora and fauna are a call to action to protect that biodiversity.
The influence of biodiversity on multiple ecosystem processes is not well understood. Analysing 94 biodiversity-ecosystem functioning experiments, Lefcheck et al. find that increased species ...
The Biodiversity Heritage Library works to make biodiversity-related literature freely available to the world. They’ve got thousands of image libraries to peruse, but one of the richest is their ...
World governments have missed their goal of stemming biodiversity loss by this year, instead biodiversity loss has worsened according to scientists and policy-makers, and a little rusty-colored ...