Scientists study living creatures from microbes to whales, from insects to polar bears, from algae to rainforests. An understanding of biodiversity helps understand the environmental health in a region and the effects of pollution and climate change.
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PLAY VIDEOCindy Lee Van Dover is a pioneer: a submarine pilot and the first woman to...
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PLAY VIDEOA new report from the World Conservation Union states nearly a third of known primatesare...
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PLAY VIDEOClimage change, the rate of extinction of species, and the challenge of feeding a growing...
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PLAY VIDEOIf emissions of greenhouse gases and resulting global and Arctic warming continue apace, the study...
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PLAY VIDEOCamaras mounted to endangered species are being used to study their behaviour.
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PLAY VIDEOTropical forests in Amazonia are being cleared rapidly, representing an important contribution to land-use and...
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PLAY VIDEOAn international team of scientists has published a new analysis showing that as plant species...
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PLAY VIDEOThe world will have to end its growth of carbon emissions within seven years...
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PLAY VIDEOAn extensively used weedkiller – Atrazine – has been found in streams and rivers throughout...
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PLAY VIDEO“Bio-Rock” – a procedure created by scientist Thomas Goreau and late architect Wolf Hilbertz –...
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PLAY VIDEOWorldwide demand for palm oil used in cooking, cosmetics, and “earth-friendly” biodiesel is driving logging...
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PLAY VIDEOParasitic sea lice originating in salmon farms along the west coast of Canada are threatening...
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PLAY VIDEOWatchlist 2007, a report by the National Audobon Society and the American Bird Conservancy, says...
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PLAY VIDEOHuman development, encroachment, habitat destruction and poaching are forcing India’s tigers into new terrain not...
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PLAY VIDEOA plan expected to be approved by the US National Park Service blames Rocky Mountain...
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PLAY VIDEOA scientific expedition into the pristine “Lost World” of western New Guinea’s Foja Mountains –...
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PLAY VIDEOAustralia’s new government will send a patrol ship and aircraft to monitor controversial Japanese whaling...
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PLAY VIDEOScientists say the remains of an extinct fox-sized animal found in India is probably the...
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PLAY VIDEONorthwestern University scientist Philip Messersmith and his team – inspired by mussels – have developed...
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PLAY VIDEOBowing to pressure from the United States and Australia, Japan has delayed its proposed hunting...
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PLAY VIDEOA small Italian village is experiencing an outbreak of the tropical disease chikungunya – a...
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PLAY VIDEOAn international team of scientists have found a method that could allow sea cucumbers’ ability...
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PLAY VIDEOA report released by US researchers shows that human activities seriously impede the survival and...
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PLAY VIDEOA federal judge in California is scheduled to release a decision this week that...
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PLAY VIDEOA new book authored by George and Roberta Poinar presents the hypothesis that the death...
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PLAY VIDEOPopulations of rare White-rumped and Slender-billed Vultures in Nepal’s Nawalparasi conservation district have nearly doubled...
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PLAY VIDEOMonarch butterflies and their mysterious and marvelous annual migration have long awed scientists. A recent...
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PLAY VIDEOHighlighting the unexpected effects of ecological disturbances, a new study suggests that the mutual realtionship...
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PLAY VIDEOA report released by the World Wildlife Fund and Princeton University shows that about 80%...
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PLAY VIDEOGreenpeace activists on the ship Esperanza have succefully driven whalers out of the hunt zone...
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PLAY VIDEOThe Bush administration has exempted the Navy from the Coastal Zone Management Act, a move...
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PLAY VIDEOIn what appears to be an example of lightning-quick evolution, the size of African and...
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PLAY VIDEOThe hunting of wild animals by hungry refugees in East Africa threatens wildlife populations,...
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PLAY VIDEOAmidst clashes in Antarctica between Japanese whaling boats and the conservation groups Greenpeace and Sea...
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PLAY VIDEOSpanish scientists have found that blood samples from the Yellow Legged Seagull can be used...
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PLAY VIDEOFollowing complaints from hunters that they are killing too many deer and elk, the U.S....
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PLAY VIDEOTiny diatoms – which are capable of locking up large amounts of carbon dioxide in...
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PLAY VIDEOEcotourists and researchers studying Africa’s great apes – and simultaneously protecting them from poachers, are...
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PLAY VIDEOScientists reported in the journal Science that they have manufactured an entire bacterium genome by...
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PLAY VIDEOA new species of elephant-shrew has been discovered in Tanzania.