Biodiversity Courses and Certifications

Beyond the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): Addressing Sustainability and Development

700 ratings at Coursera

Treat sustainability and development as co-equal fields: critically analyze the 17 SDGs, climate change, poverty and inequality, and biodiversity loss, weighing trade-offs and synergies through case studies.

• Coursera
• 5 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Evolution and Biodiversity

Learn how natural selection retains advantageous traits and discards others, and how populations that stop sharing a gene pool diverge genetically into separate species.

• Coursera
• 3 hours
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Dalian Minzu University

走进多彩的生物世界

多彩的民族，丰富的生物，广袤的华夏大地处处都有生命的踪迹。让我们走进多彩的民族地区生物世界，领略它们的灵气与风采。 打开这门课，打开民族地区生物世界的大门……

• XuetangX
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

CEC;  Govt. Degree College, Eidgah, Srinagar

Biodiversity and Ecological Resources

Understand biodiversity, ecosystems, and natural-resource management through threats, in-situ and ex-situ conservation, and sustainable development.

• Swayam
• 12 weeks
• Available until Oct 31, 2026
• Free Online Course

Environmental Science

360 ratings at Coursera

Learn how environmental scientists think: distinguish environmental science from environmentalism, examine genetic, species and ecosystem biodiversity, carbon and nitrogen cycles, feedback loops, and global warming.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 7 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Women in environmental biology

139 ratings at Coursera

Explore environmental biology through a gender perspective: biodiversity, ecosystem interactions, environment and human health, and conservation strategies such as ecofeminism and environmental education.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Life on Earth: Diversification and Extinctions

26 ratings at Coursera

Trace life's history through five mass extinctions: stromatolites and early bacteria, fish and tetrapod diversification, dinosaur dominance, mammal rise, and the possible sixth extinction.

• Coursera
• 5 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Universidad de Almería

Fashion Values: Nature

Examine fashion's impact on biodiversity and the biosphere, study company nature-centred frameworks, and design a fashion product, service or system that regenerates ecosystems.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Neighbourhood nature

51 ratings at OpenLearn

There is a fascinating world of nature all around us which we can see if we know how to look for it. Wherever you live, be it in a city or the countryside, you will find areas that support a range ...

• OpenLearn
• 1 hour
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Fire ecology

12 ratings at OpenLearn

This course explores the role of fire as a natural disturbance in ecosystems. It introduces the concept of a fire regime and its influence on the type and distribution of organisms that occur in ...

• OpenLearn
• 4 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Amoeba Sisters

Amoeba Sisters Biology Review Videos

Explore comprehensive biology concepts through interactive review sessions covering genetics, cell structures, ecology, and biodiversity with engaging Q&A format.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 21 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Pixologic ZBrush

Nature, Animals, Biodiversity, & Science - Eric Keller: That Guy Who Sculpts a Lot of Bugs and Sp

A live ZBrush session sculpting a camel spider, with detailed workflows for segmented legs, pedipalps, and anatomical forms.

• YouTube
• 2 hours 4 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Pixologic ZBrush

Nature, Animals, Biodiversity, & Science - Realistic Insects - Eric Keller - ZBrush 2022

Sculpt realistic insects in ZBrush by studying insect anatomy, mouthparts, vision, topology, and forms such as a black widow.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 57 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Pixologic ZBrush

Nature, Animals, Biodiversity, & Science - Realistic Bee Sculpture - Eric Keller - ZBrush 2022

A ZBrush workflow for sculpting a realistic bee while building production-ready topology and exporting the model to Maya.

• YouTube
• 2 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

The Royal Institution

How Climate Change Causes Biodiversity Loss and What We Can Do About It

Explores how climate change accelerates biodiversity loss and how protecting ecosystems can help mitigate and adapt to climate change.

• YouTube
• 50 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video