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National biodiversity

Our impoverished Earth

I was watching an old National Geographic special, Hunting Hounds of Arabia, on an ancient and reverered breed of sighthound, the saluki, when it...
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Conservation and rain forest logging can coexist

Jack Putz, University of Florida professor of biology, led a team of scientists in defining and devising a practical means of preserving tropical...
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A real “Lost World” found in Antarctic depths

Researcher teams led by the University of Oxford, University of Southampton and British Antarctic Survey reported the discovery of a variety of...
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Animals future cannot be predicted on climate change

An exhaustive study of the effects of climate change on animal populations over the past 65 million years published at the Proceedings of the...
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Sunlight is driving force in rain forest biodiversity

A new study of plant biodiversity and the viability of plant survival in rain forests in Bolivia reported at the PNAS web site finds that sunlight...
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Chameleon survivor tells tale of biodiversity

The chameleons in the Eastern Arc Mountains (EAM) have been shown to be a marker of the spread of biodiversity in fragmented tropical regions not...
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Seaquirts abundant

  • Ascidiacea
  • June 22, 2011
Researchers from the University of Washington published the first global inventory of seasquirt populations in a report at the Public Library of...
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Top ten new species from 2010

The International Institute for Species Exploration at Arizona State University and a committee of taxonomists have announced the top ten new...
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GOP continue fight against clean energy, biodiversity, and Science

THE END OF CHEAP OIL The age of cheap oil is over, causing increased tension to an already fragile recovery. The global economy has still not...
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Don't believe the hype over climate change denial

Every winter, like clockwork, climate change denialists, contrarians, skeptics, or whatever they are being called these days, pour out in droves to...
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