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Biodiversity helps sustain human life, scientists say

Experts worldwide have long talked about the importance of preserving the diversity of life for the sake of beauty and wonder, or in the hopes of new medical discoveries, or for moral reasons.

A group of scientists is reporting that biodiversity also helps sustain…

²ÝÁñÉçÇø biologist: Loss of plant biodiversity could affect ecosystems as much as global climate change, pollution

The scientists gathered at a workshop in California knew that shrinking biological diversity affects an ecosystem's plant growth, based on the many experiments that have shown just that.
"But how big are those effects, really?" said David Hooper, a biology professor at…

Biodiversity loss from species extinctions may rival pollution and climate change impacts

Species extinction and loss of biodiversity could be as devastating for the earth as climate change and air pollution. That's the finding of a new study by a group of scientists from nine countries. The research aims for the first time to comprehensively compare the consequences of…

Scientists: Extinctions Just as Damaging as Climate Change

A new paper in the prestigious science journal Nature assesses one of the big questions in ecology today: How do species extinctions rack up compared to other global change issues like global warming, ozone holes, acid rain, and nutrient pollution (overfertilization)?

Could biodiversity loss rival impacts of climate change?
June Ross memorial set for May 12 in Bellingham
So Much Life on a Little Patch of Earth

I’ve logged thousands of miles to catch a glimpse of one exotic creature or another, to Costa Rica to be dazzled by the bird known as the resplendent quetzal, to Hawaii to admire sea turtles, to Venezuela to spy man-eating anacondas. So it seemed more than a little odd that the one time I made a…

Lapsansky to discuss the wonders of blood circulation and the heart April 24
'Neuroscience on Tap' continues April 2 in downtown Bellingham
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