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Bio-Invaders Are we under attack by "non-native" species? Should we care?   |
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January 2009
Ronald Bailey |
Friendly Invasion End species discrimination -- newly introduced species may be able to get along with their native brethren better than previously believed. |
Science News
August 4, 2007 |
Science Safari: Biota Behaving Badly The U.S. Department of Agriculture offers one site for news and impacts of invasive species. |
Scientific American
March 2009
David Appell |
Can "Assisted Migration" Save Species from Global Warming? As the world warms up, some species cannot move to cooler climes in time to survive. Camille Parmesan thinks humans should help even if it means creating invasive species |
Popular Mechanics
February 3, 2010
Cassie Rodenberg |
Top 5 Most Damaging Invasive Species in the U.S. As transportation into the country has become more advanced, more invasive species have come in on boats and planes, thus worsening the problems posed to ecosystems. |
IDB America
January 2005
Roger Hamilton |
Search and Destroy in the Galapagos Inspectors battle ecological imperialism at the islands' airports and docks. |
Geotimes
April 2006
Kathryn Hansen |
Funding Great Lakes Restoration To help restore health to the Great Lakes, which contain about 95% of North America's fresh surface water, Congress introduced two bills last week, but such restoration comes with a lofty price tag. |
Smithsonian
April 2007
Jen Phillips |
Species Explosion What happens when you mix evolution with climate change? |
Reason
July 2005
Kerry Howley |
Save the Frankenfish! Is the snakehead endangered? Environmental groups are using the Endangered Species Act to lock up land from development rather than save threatened species, and they want some reform from Washington. |
Reason
December 2000 |
Letters Bio Invaders... Free Money... Utopian Crackpots... Questioning Consumerism... Workshop Nightmares... |
This Old House
Ashley Womble |
Space Invaders How to prevent nonnative plants from running amok in your yard. |
Salon.com
January 14, 2002
John Glassie |
E.O. Wilson The great scientist and conservationist explains the terrorism we insist on overlooking. And space colonies won't help, either... |
Chemistry World
April 10, 2008
Henry Nicholls |
Water Retains DNA Memory of Hidden Species A team of scientists has demonstrated that DNA profiling could be a quick, effective and relatively cheap alternative to finding new species of animal life. |
BusinessWeek
July 14, 2003
Arlene Weintraub |
The Outcry over "Terminator" Genes in Food Critics fear such safeguards present fresh genetic perils |
Salon.com
October 28, 2002
Katharine Mieszkowski |
Data-mining life on earth Every blade of grass, every fish and fowl, slug and snail, has a place on the Web. |
Searcher
Nov/Dec 2003
David Mattison |
Information on the Seven Seas: International Ocean Science Web Resources (Part 2) A look at three areas of international cooperation in ocean science research: the physical and chemical ocean, meteorology, and marine life. |
Reason
November 2001
Sara Rimensnyder |
Cryptic Biodiversity By examining DNA, scientists have discovered new species of birds, reptiles, whales, and plants. Will this put more pressure on the Endangered Species Act? |
Salon.com
April 22, 2000
Fred Branfman |
Living in shimmering disequilibrium The Pulitzer Prize-winning author calls for spiritualizing the environmental movement as Earth endures the greatest mass extinction in 65 million years... |
Wired
Gary Wolf |
A Simple Plan to ID Every Creature on Earth All over the world, farmers, port inspectors, game wardens, exterminators, building contractors, and, of course, professional biologists are staring at some form of plant or animal life and wondering helplessly what it is. |
Smithsonian
January 2004
Rita Beamish |
Sleepless in Hawaii Insomniac islanders are hopping mad over a tiny frog from that threatens their fragile ecosystem. |
Popular Mechanics
September 25, 2009
Erin McCarthy |
Fringe's Human Mutant Not Possible, Says Expert We won't ever have to worry about Fringe's part-mole-rat, part-scorpion, part-human mutant in real life because it's not within the realm of possibility. |
Smithsonian
September 2005
Daniel Glick |
Back From The Brink Not every endangered species is doomed. Thanks to tough U.S. environmental laws, dedicated researchers, and plenty of money and effort, success stories abound. |
Science News
December 5, 2008
Edward O. Wilson |
Protect Biodiversity Hot Spots And The Rest Will Follow The tragedy unfolding in our ignorance, in our preoccupation with strictly physical environments, is that human action is destroying countless species and even ecosystems before we even know they existed. |
Chemistry World
July 30, 2013 |
Animal pharm Making drugs to treat animals is a potentially lucrative market -- but the path to success is a difficult one, as Clare Sansom discovers |
Scientific American
June 2008
Charles Q. Choi |
Can the "Amphibian Ark" Save Frogs from Pollution/Extinction? A repopulation plan for endangered amphibians. |
Scientific American
April 2009
Michael Tennesen |
Snakebit: Southern Pacific rattlesnake versus humans Humans may have paved the way for the Southern Pacific rattlesnake |
Science News
March 8, 2008 |
One-Stop Shopping for Every Species The definitive place on the Internet to find information on every living species. |
Geotimes
April 2004
Charles Groat |
A Celebration of 125 Years In the 125 years since its creation, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has provided the scientific information needed to make important decisions and safeguard society. |
Science News
July 24, 2004
Janet Raloff |
Seeing Red and Finding Fraudulent Fish Marine biology students find most red snapper sold at stores isn't the real McCoy. The findings suggest that true red-snapper stocks might have been so depleted that fleets are now surreptitiously substituting other species for this high-value reef fish. |
Scientific American
November 2008
Barbara Juncosa |
The Role of Random Events in Extinction Chance disaster is a bigger extinction threat than once thought. |
Chemistry World
September 23, 2014 |
Chemistry in bloom There's chemistry among the specimens at many botanical gardens. Sarah Houlton talks to the scientists involved |
Scientific American
July 2007
Jeffrey D. Sachs |
The Promise of the Blue Revolution Aquaculture can maintain living standards while averting the ruin of the oceans. |
