Tagged with Biodiversity 
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Study finds “mass biodiversity collapse” at 900 ppm 0
Posted 4 months, 1 week agoIn 2007, the IPCC warned that "as global average temperature increase exceeds about 3.5°C [relative to 1980 to 1999], model projections suggest significant extinctions (40-70% of species assessed) around the globe." On our current emissions path, we will warm far more than that this century, which suggests we risk the high end of species loss.
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How Waxman-Markey tackles climate change by saving forests 1
Posted 4 months, 4 weeks ago
One of the little-known ingredients of the deal that allowed the American Clean Energy and Security Act, H.R. 2454 to pass the Energy and Commerce committee was a breakthrough on protections for the world's vanishing tropical forests.
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One big dinner table
When it comes to food, we’re all in this together 3
Posted 5 months, 1 week ago
Teenagers and nations like to declare independence. But for a long time now, humans have relied on a broad, global, and utterly interdependent genetic and cultural basis for food production.
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Dispatch from Bonn: The Nature Conservancy
What does nature have to do with climate change? 1
Posted 5 months, 2 weeks ago It's sometimes easy for nature to get lost during the international climate change negotiations here in Bonn. But what does nature have to do with climate change and how does nature play into these negotiations? A group of some of the world's top scientific experts released findings in Bonn this week to help give negotiators those answers.
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Jonathan Drori: Why we’re storing billions of seeds 0
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A Hoard of a Different Color
Doomsday seed vault’s stores are growing 0
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Boo Who?
Umbra on bamboo origins 15
Posted 9 months, 1 week ago
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MacArthur Foundation to fund climate change adaptation network 0
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Scientists find source of gregarious behavior (in grasshoppers) 1
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Unnaturalism
Images of an evolving world by artist Don Simon 12
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Thar She Blows
A nosy review of recycled facial tissue 12
Posted 9 months, 3 weeks ago
As any sensitive nose knows, the quest for facial tissues that are gentle on you -- and the earth -- is nothing to sneeze at. Is it possible to find a strong, soft schnoz-swiper that doesn't strip the forest?
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A letter to Science ponders what $700 billion could do for the natural world 1
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One thousand new species discovered this decade 0
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Rain, Dear
Umbra on rainforest-protection gifts 6
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Planet Ahead
Overconsumption will have dire consequences, says WWF report 0
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Prowling Europe’s last lowland old growth forest 5
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The Encyclopedia of Life keeps plugging along 5
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Massive U.N. study attempts to do for biodiversity what IPCC did for climate 0
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A Read for Speed
Bush admin will rush review of comments on endangered-species plan 1
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How to fend off biological and cultural extinctions 0
Posted 1 year, 1 month ago