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Biodiversity

There Aren't Enough Spidermen

Todd Palmer and Rob Pringle | Posted 11.17.2008 | 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 11.15.2008 | 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 11.10.2008 | 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 09.20.2008 | 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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