Biodiversity – Page 14

‘Peak’ Timber Concerns in Tropics
By the Editor on January 24, 2012
Current tropical timber practices are not sustainable and nations should consider the implications of ‘peak timber’, a study has...
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Rainforest in Transition: Is the Amazon Transforming before Our Eyes?
By the Editor on January 19, 2012
The Amazon rainforest is in flux, thanks to agricultural expansion and climate change. In other words, humans have “become...
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Extinction Rate Likely Higher Than Predicted
By the Editor on January 6, 2012
As climate change progresses, the planet may lose more plant and animal species than predicted, a new modeling study...
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The Race to Document Biodiversity
By the Editor on January 6, 2012
The most extraordinary aspect of biodiversity is the way in which every living thing on earth, everything that has...
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Mass Species Loss Stunts Evolution for Millions of Years
By the Editor on October 28, 2011
Biological diversity—something that’s now imperiled by human appetites—may be a sustaining, stabilizing force on planetary scales, and its disruption...
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