Swamps are often viewed through the lens of recreation, but their real value lies in the services they provide every ...

Many companies rely on natural resources, and securing the flow of ecosystem services may be directly related to their business’s bottom line. Water companies need functioning ES to maintain water ...

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 ...

Shahid Naeem does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of ...

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 ...

Just as they do in forests and other natural ecosystems, trees deliver a variety of ecosystem services in cities. They sequester carbon and reduce air pollution and stormwater runoff, for instance.

While the term “ecosystem services” may sound like a corporate antithesis to the course of natural order, it is actually an umbrella term for the ways in which the human experience is favorably ...

Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in the Columbia River Gorge. She enjoys gardening, reporting on environmental topics, and spending her time outside ...