Category:Biodiversity
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We live in an age of rapid and unprecedented planetary change. Indeed, many scientists believe our ever-increasing consumption, and the resulting increased demand for energy, land and water, is driving a new geological epoch: the Anthropocene. It’s the first time in the Earth’s history that a single species – Homo sapiens – has had such a powerful impact on the planet.
This rapid planetary change, referred to as the ‘Great Acceleration’, has brought many benefits to human society. Yet we now also understand that there are multiple connections between the overall rise in our health, wealth, food and security, the unequal distribution of these benefits and the declining state of the Earth’s natural systems. Nature, underpinned by biodiversity, provides a wealth of services, which form the building blocks of modern society; but both nature and biodiversity are disappearing at an alarming rate. Despite well-meaning attempts to stop this loss through global agreements such as the Convention on Biological Diversity, we are failing; current targets and consequent actions amount, at best, to a managed decline. To achieve climate and sustainable development commitments, reversing the loss of nature and biodiversity is critical...
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An Unseen World
The 'Tiny Little Ones'
- Microbiomes full of untapped secrets
Connections & Communities
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Micro- to Macro, the Tiny (as in Tiny Blue Green single-celled micro-organisms) to the Largest Macro Creatures
Biodiversity Topics / Wikipedia -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biodiversity
Trillions of (micro) species -- https://cosmosmagazine.com/life-sciences/earth-home-trillion-species
Microbial 'new' Tree of Life -- http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/12/science/scientists-unveil-new-tree-of-life.html
Extinction / Wikipedia -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinction
Extinction Issues / GreenPolicy -- http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Extinction
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Do Insects Count? Who Cares About Insects, Right? Wrong?
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Saving Species, Notes from the Edge
The botanists’ last stand: The daring work of saving the last samples of dying species
Save a Butterfly, Save a Species / July 31
- http://www.boredpanda.com/rare-blue-swallowtail-pipevine-butterfly-repopulation-tim-wong/
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Tree of Life
Tree of Life
Announced September 2015 / http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Tree_of_Life
The first draft of ‘Tree of Life’ data diagrams include 2.3 million species -- The goal of reconstructing the tree of life is one of the most daunting challenges in biology. The scope of the problem is immense... most species have yet to be described. Despite decades of effort and thousands of phylogenetic studies on diverse clades, we lack a comprehensive tree of life, or even a summary of our current knowledge. One reason for this shortcoming is lack of data...
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The ecologist's field guide to sequence-based identification of biodiversity
Keywords: DNA sequencing; metabarcoding; metagenomics; metatranscriptomics; molecular ecology; biodiversity
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Nature was always present... It was participant, impetus, and catalyst. It was the riches that made nations wealthy and powerful, and over which their armies; it was the wildness our ancestors insisted on taming, the scourge that left them despairing, and the blessing that kept them alive. How and where and by what design people built their homes and businesses depended on natural conditions and endowments. Inspirations for what people wrote and painted, what they wore, and said to each other, how they planned their day and spent their leisure time, and what they chose as a livelihood all flowed from an organic setting. Nature shaped strategies in war and gave form to economics, and its wealth or privation determined that of people and their enterprises.
- -- The Gulf
- by Jack E. Davis
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The Rich Biosphere of the Rainforest Canopy, "Cradle of New Life Forms"
SJS / GreenPolicy Siterunner:
January 2013
I want to say a few words about Don Perry, Dr. Perry, who swung in and posted a couple comments yesterday about climate change, global warming and its coming impacts.
Be aware, Don is not your standard scientist who has dwelt in academia, collecting accolades and plaudits for his lifetime of work and explorations of the bio-universe. Don has gone on from UCLA to literally change the way we see our world.
As I used to say about Don, when we were working together back when I lived in LA and he was starting his career that would revolutionize the science of tropical forest study, Don is unique in his field, he's a pioneer (and "bioneer"), he's an explorer, an inventor. Don invented new techniques and methods for ascending and studying the 'real jungle', up above far from LA's glam, and proceeded to enable and show us what the resplendent, amazing rainforest, the richest biosphere on earth, the canopy, was like and it was wonderful... first-ever pictures and reports and science from on high. I was privileged to help as his representative and we saw Don's visions reach audiences around the world as he opened eyes to the eco-wonders of the environment we live in and the world we came from long ago, that is, if you believe in evolution... Don was a "Jacques Cousteau of the Rainforest Canopy." I meant the words when I said them and still do. Don's pioneering work has been featured in Scientific American, National Geographic, Smithsonian, New York Sunday Times magazine, Life, Newsweek, Paris Match, Quick of Germany, Popular Science, and many more popular and scientific media.
I have to say that Don's career is one-of-a-kind, an unparalleled feat of brave, courageous ascents and creative imagination and engineering that followed...
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Subcategories
This category has the following 31 subcategories, out of 31 total.
Pages in category "Biodiversity"
The following 159 pages are in this category, out of 159 total.
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- C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group
- Caloundra, Australia Biodiversity Strategy 2006
- Capitalism and the Environment
- Citizen Science
- Climate News
- Climate News Events Archive ... 1970 to Today
- Climate Problems, Climate Solutions
- Conservation biology
- Conservation movement
- Convention on Biological Diversity
- Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals
- Cork, Ireland City Biodiversity Plan
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- Earth and Space, Politics
- Earth Day
- Earth Day 2020
- Earth Day Is Every Day
- Earth Day Memories on the 50th Anniversary
- Earth Science
- Earth Science Research from Space
- Earth Science Vital Signs
- Earthrise
- Ecolivia
- Ecotourism
- Edinburgh, Scotland Biodiversity Action Plan
- Endangered species
- Endangered Species Recovery Plan
- Environmental agreements
- Environmental full-cost accounting
- Environmental Law, Rollbacks under Trump 2016-20
- Environmental Laws and Modern Environmental Movement
- Environmental movement
- Environmental protection
- Environmental Protection Agency
- Environmental Security Organizations
- Environmental Studies Online
- EOS eco Operating System
- Extinction
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- GDP+
- Generation Green
- George E. Brown Jr
- Global Fishing Watch
- Global Forest Watch
- Google Earth Timelapse
- GP360 NewPages
- Green Development Initiative (GDI)
- Green Education
- Green Politics 360
- Green Quotes
- Green Stories of the Day
- Green Stories of the Day - GreenPolicy360 Archive
- Greening Our Blue Planet
- GreenLinks
- GreenPolicy360 (eOS)
- GreenPolicy360 Archive Highlights 2013
- GreenPolicy360 Archive Highlights 2014
- GreenPolicy360 Archive Highlights 2015
- GreenPolicy360 Archive Highlights 2016
- GreenPolicy360 Archive Highlights 2017
- GreenPolicy360 Archive Highlights 2018
- GreenPolicy360 Archive Highlights 2019
- GreenPolicy360 Archive Highlights 2020
- GreenPolicy360 Archive Highlights 2023
- GreenPolicy360 Highlights
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- INaturalist
- INDCs
- Intended Nationally Determined Contributions
- Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services
- International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture
- International Year of Biodiversity
- IPBES, Biodiversity and Extinction
- It's All Related
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