Category Archives: BIODIVERSITY

Climate Change and Mountain Building affects Mammal Diversity Patterns

Posted on May 9, 2010 by Rashid Faridi

If you travel from the tropics to the poles,  you’ll notice that the diversity of mammals declines with distance from the equator. Move from lowland to mountains, and you’ll see diversity increase as the landscape becomes more varied. Ecologists have … Continue reading →

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Neanderthals, Humans Interbred, DNA Proves

Posted on May 7, 2010 by Rashid Faridi

Most of us are part Neanderthal. The first draft sequence of the Neanderthal genome has provided the strongest evidence yet that modern humans and Neanderthals interbred and that all non-Africans today have Neanderthal gene fragments in their genetic codes. Click … Continue reading →

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World Fails to Slow Loss of Animals, Plants

Posted on May 4, 2010 by Rashid Faridi

World leaders have failed to fulfill their commitments to reduce the global rate of biodiversity loss by 2010, and have instead overseen “alarming” biodiversity declines, finds the first assessment of how the targets expressed in the 2002 Convention on Biological … Continue reading →

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Endangered Sea Turtles at Risk from Gulf Oil Spill

Posted on May 2, 2010 by Rashid Faridi

Endangered Kemp’s ridley sea turtles in the Gulf of Mexico are likely to be affected by the oil spilling from the broken Deepwater Horizon wellhead during their peak migration to nesting beaches, warn scientists and conservation workers who have invested … Continue reading →

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