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The Nagoya Protocol: More or less biodiversity

News: Species Loss    October 30, 2010
While few delegates from the 190 nations that attended the United Nations Conference on Biodiversity (officially the 10th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity) would say they got everything they wanted, they do agree – and did agree – that they got something: The Nagoya Protocol. In the [...]
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The biodiversity crisis is more than extinctions

Impact: Species Loss    October 27, 2010
Published to coincide with the so called United Nations Biodiversity Conference (officially: The tenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties) in Nagoya, Japan October 18-29, 2010, are a number of studies and reports on the current state of biodiversity. The most striking is a new assessment of the vertebrate species (that’s us and anything [...]
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Species loss: 1 in 5 plants endangered

Impact: Species Loss    September 29, 2010
In the big picture, all types of species are lost. Extinction comes to mammals, birds, amphibians, insects, fungi and, of course, plants. Totting up the loss of plant species is difficult. There are an estimated 380,000 plant species – orders of magnitude more than most other forms of life. It’s quite likely that some plant [...]
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Species Loss: It is statistics but not a game

Impact: Species Loss    March 8, 2010
Most biologists will tell you that the Earth is losing species faster than it is replacing them. One prominent biologist, Simon Stuart, chair of the Species Survival Commission for the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), has said about two new reports coming out in March (2010): “Measuring the rate at which new [...]
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Follow-up: Maybe Chicxulub didn’t do it

Impact: Impact Event    March 6, 2010
Not enough evidence. It’s one of the most important, and difficult to evaluate, criticisms in science. In his blog “In terra veritas” post 41 Angry Scientists, Bryan (a geologist) takes on the Science article The Chicxulub Asteroid Impact and Mass Extinction at the Cretaceous-Paleogene Boundary. He has two main complaints: The ‘panel of 41’ that [...]
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Half of all primates threatened by extinction

News: Species Loss    February 18, 2010
Homo Sapiens may lose many members of its order (primates). In fact, according to a newly released report, Primates in Peril: The World’s 25 Most Endangered Primates, 2008-2010 by the International Union for the Conservation of Natural Resources (IUCN) nearly half (48%) of all primates are threatened by extinction. The report fingers the usual suspects: [...]
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Technology on the way to extinction…?

Spun: November 17, 2009
This is the time of year when media people like to play “Top Ten List” for just about anything. The process of forming these lists brings irascible people together to champion their own favorites and argue (ever so politely…or not) with their colleagues. Some of the lists produced are also illuminating to those who read [...]
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