World Ocean Day is today!
What is World Ocean Day? Well... it began in 1992 in Rio de Janeiro at the landmark United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, also [...]
“Endangered” is confusing?!
First Japan, now China. Not that the US is much better in terms of wildlife conservation, but I don't understand how this can continue to [...]
Encyclopedia of Life to be launched online
Encyclopedia of Life was announced today, a highly ambitious and exciting project designed to document the 1.8 million named species of animals, plants, and other [...]
Biodiversity loss and the need for an Intervention
Grist, a favorite publication of ours, recently posted a story on biodiversity loss titled "That Extincts" describing scientists' fear that a mass extinction is imminent [...]