The 26 new Unesco-designated biosphere reserves are home to some of the planet's richest and most fragile ecosystems.

India has added the Cold Desert Biosphere Reserve as in its network of United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural ...

An Indonesian archipelago that's home to three-fourths of Earth's coral species, a stretch of Icelandic coast with 70% of the ...

The Reserves are governed in a way that Man and the biosphere he needs to survive can do so for as long as we humans live on ...

From a distance, Biosphere 2 emerges from the cacti and creosote of the Sonoran desert like a gleaming oasis, a colony of ...

The 5th WCBR is the largest and most influential conference under UNESCO's MAB programme, with over 3,000 participants from more than 100 countries and regions. It is also the first time the congress ...

Biosphere Reserves implement interdisciplinary approaches, combining natural and social sciences to improve human livelihoods and safeguard ecosystems. They are catalysts for innovative economic ...

UNESCO has designated India’s Cold Desert Biosphere Reserve as part of its global network, marking the country’s 13th ...

A new study maps the planetary boundary of "functional biosphere integrity" in spatial detail and over centuries. It finds that 60% of global land areas are now already outside the locally defined ...

In the 25 years since the first enclosure of eight people inside Biosphere 2 came to an end, Columbia University and now the University of Arizona have tried to rebrand the unique space as a tool for ...