Biodiversity

EU To Vote On Honey Bee "Recovery Zones" With Bee-Friendly Flowers

Reuters | Pete Harrison | Posted 11.19.2008 | Green

Read More: Europe, Honey, Bees, Biodiversity, Agriculture Committee, Environment, Honeybees, Animals, European Parliment, Neil Parish, Eu, Honey Bee Crisis, Green News

STRASBOURG, France - Honey bees, whose numbers are falling, must be given flowery "recovery zones" in Europe's farmlands to aid their survival, a lead...

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Mexican Walking Fish Nearing Extinction

Treehugger | Michael Graham Richard | Posted 11.06.2008 | Green

Read More: Mexican Water Monster, Extinction, Mexico, Biodiversity, Environment, Mexican Walking Fish, Animals, Habitat Distruction, Axolotl, Green News

We're saddened to learn that the alien-looking Axolotl salamander (Ambystoma mexicanum), aka Mexican walking fish or Mexican water monster, is serious...

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Nobody Reads Nature: Why So Many Tree Species In The Amazon?

Todd Palmer and Rob Pringle | Posted 11.04.2008 | Green

Read More: Science, Environment, Biology, Biodiversity, Forests, Evolution, Green News
Todd Palmer and Rob Pringle

In many cases, the observed patterns in nature are indeed different from those expected under the assumption of randomness.

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What Conservatism Taught Us About Conservation

Todd Palmer and Rob Pringle | Posted 10.22.2008 | Green

Read More: Environment, John McCain, Ecology, Election 08, Deforestation, Science, William Kristol, National Review, Biodiversity, Green News
Todd Palmer and Rob Pringle

Is presenting a unified front really a prerequisite for getting what you want in the political sphere?

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There Aren't Enough Spidermen

Todd Palmer and Rob Pringle | Posted 10.17.2008 | Green

Read More: Green, Environment, Ecological Issues, Ecology, Biodiversity, Genetic Sequencing, Green News
Todd Palmer and Rob Pringle

We are spending more than $2 billion of US taxpayer money to send another rover to Mars next year, when so much of our own planet remains unexplored and unknown.

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The Crisis Nobody's Talking About

Todd Palmer and Rob Pringle | Posted 10.15.2008 | Green

Read More: Environment, Election 08, Bush Administration, Biodiversity, Green News
Todd Palmer and Rob Pringle

In the 2004 Presidential election, environmental issues were essentially absent from the political discourse. Not so this year, with both parties' can...

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Cost of Forest Loss Exceeds Current Banking Crisis

Janet Ritz | Posted 10.10.2008 | Green

Read More: Green News, The Environmentalist, Deforestation, Climate Change, Convention of Biological Diversity, Bank Crisis, Biodiversity, Wall Street Crisis, Green News
Janet Ritz

The global economy is losing more money from the disappearance of forests than through the current banking crisis, according to an EU-commissioned study.

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What the Heck Is Biodiversity? And Why Should We Care?

Marguerite Manteau-Rao | Posted 08.20.2008 | Green

Read More: Thomas Friedman, Paul Ehrlich, Climate Change, Hot, Flat, and Crowded, Robert Pringle, Biodiversity, Environment, Sustainability, Endangered Species, Global Warming, Green News
Marguerite Manteau-Rao

We should care about biodiversity because it is increasingly threatened as we keep encroaching on natural habitats and polluting our air, water and soil.

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Native Plants Belong in Native Habitats

Paige Donner | Posted 04.03.2008 | Living

Read More: Land Use, Baby Bird Food, Birds, Beverly Hills, Susan Gottlieb, Rainfall, Theodore Payne, Theodore Payne Foundation, Native Plants, Caterpillars, California Native Plant Gardens, Garden Tour, Extinction, California Oak Tree, Biodiversity, Butterflies, Ecosystem, Insects, Water Conservation, Diversity, Native Plant Gardens, Living News
Paige Donner

Only 7% of insects can eat non-native plants. Without insects to convert plant material to proteins most higher land animal life forms will go extinct.A California native oak tree can support over 400 different kinds of insects. A Norway maple, for example, supports nothing.

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Biofuel Could Eat Brazil's Savannas & Deforest the Amazon

Chris McGowan | Posted 09.14.2007 | Politics

Read More: Amazon Deforestation, Cerrado, Biofuel, Brenco, Biodiversity, George Soros, Hotspot, Amory Lovins, Brazil, Sugar Cane, Ethanol, Amazonia, Palm Oil, Steve Case, Politics News
Chris McGowan

These days, when you fill up your car with a gasoline-and-ethanol blend, you are probably burning ethyl alcohol made from American corn. A few years f...

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