Understanding the nature of ocean life and the patterns of its diversity represents a difficult challenge. Not only are there technical difficulties involved with studying life under water (high pressure, need for oxygen tanks, lack of light), there...

Biodiversity is the total richness of biological variation. A result of genetic diversity. The scope of biodiversity ranges from the genetic variation of individual organisms within and among populations of a species to different species existing...

The totality of life, including genetic capacity, within a defined...

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Biodiversity is the variation of life forms within a given ecosystem, biome or for the entire Earth. Biodiversity is often used as a measure of the health of biological...

The lack of biodiversity has serious effects on food production systems locally and globally. Declining diversity of crop and livestock species results in simplified ecosystems that are more difficult and inefficient to maintain. Likewise, loss of biodiversity means less food, construction materials, medicine, fuel,...

The earths biodiversity is rapidly disappearing. This environmental crisis is the subject of Biodiversity and the Law, a collection of writings edited by William J. Snape III. In this book review, Richard Blaustein addresses some of the issues raised by the books nineteen...

Six species of reef-building coral could vanish from the Caribbean due to rising temperatures and toxic runoff from islands' development, according to a study released Thursday.Nearly two dozen scientists from U.S. and Caribbean universities, as well as nonprofits, identified the threatened species while reviewing studies...

The term “biodiversity”—short for biological diversity—was first used in the 1980s by scientists to refer to the richness of biological variation on Earth or within a particular region. In their book Saving Nature’s Legacy,...

Exlpains the meaning and use of biodiversity. Describes threats to biodiversity and reviews methods to protect it.

A definition of biodiversity and possible causes why the Earth is losing species so rapidly. Some of the reasons including the dramatic increase in human population and the destruction by humans of habitat.

The use of technology to make societal advances has many benefits, but it also destroys our natural environment. A "growth at any cost" approach to managing the environment will eventually collapse ecosystems.