Tag Archives: endangered species
Extrapolating lab study on yeast: species may evolve around deadly environmental change within 50-100 generations
If however survival conditions are optimal, like a gradual increase of the environmental stressor, ‘modest’ inter-population contact – and indeed if such extrapolation from a microorganism to a blue whale would be as legitimate as the researchers in their Science … Continue reading
Crustacean cannot adapt to survive climate change
Tigriopus californicus’ portrait offers the first modern case study to confirm paleoclimatic warnings. Species may be able to evolve around slow changes. But this warming is too fast.
Sixth mass extinction underway: 75% of species could die out in next 300 years
The Earth is en route to its sixth mass extinction, say a group of paleobiologists in the latest edition of Nature.
Eastern cougar officially extinct
Nagoya results: nature gets 17 percent
After two weeks of negotiations, yesterday, on the final day of the big UN biodiversity conference in Nagoya, Japan, countries agreed on a new treaty for the protection of species and ecosystems. The percentage of Earth’s land surface under official … Continue reading
Royal Philosophy: biodiversity loss is bad
We may not know the exact sum figures of biodiversity, nor the precise percentages of species decline. It may also be irrelevant. Although ecology is in fact all about counting – we have to become aware that we are loosing … Continue reading
What is biodiversity?
The United Nations have declared the year 2010 as the International Year of Biodiversity. This Monday a big biodiversity conference starts in Nagoya, Japan, in order for countries to define and agree upon a combined strategy to slow the decline. … Continue reading