Read more biodiversity stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/12382/biodiversity.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 12:13:59 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/41085/global-warming-changes-thoreaus-walden.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWhile living at Walden Pond, Henry David Thoreau collected detailed data on the plant species native to Concord, Mass. Scientists studying climate change have compared those records to present-day biodiversity—and found chilling evidence of global warming’s effects, the Boston Globe reports. 27% of the species Thoreau documented are gone,...http://www.newser.com/story/41085/global-warming-changes-thoreaus-walden.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 28 Oct 2008 15:33:49 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/40546/borneo-threatened-by-green-gold-rush.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagBorneo, the Texas-sized island whose rain forests are astonishingly rich in biodiversity, has been plundered for its other riches—everything from rhino horns to coal to oil—for centuries. Now, with the market for palm oil, dubbed green gold, booming, oil-palm plantations threaten the remaining forest, Mel White writes in...http://www.newser.com/story/40546/borneo-threatened-by-green-gold-rush.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 27 Oct 2008 13:16:36 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/39433/ecuador-chases-citizens-off-galapagos-to-save-islands.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagEcuador is forcing those without permission to live in the Galapagos to leave, over fears that a growing human population threatens the species that make the islands unique. Even Ecuadorean citizens need special visas to visit the Galapagos, but thousands of mainland migrants have been staying illegally, drawn by high...http://www.newser.com/story/39433/ecuador-chases-citizens-off-galapagos-to-save-islands.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 08 Oct 2008 9:48:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/31824/big-sugars-exit-gives-hope-to-everglades.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagEverglades restoration may finally be a reality, writes Michael Grunwald in Yale Environment 360 during his “vacation from defeatism.” Florida's tentative $1.75 billion land deal with US Sugar would halt sugar production (and pollution) on nearly 300 square miles, and have an ecological ripple-effect that extends beyond saving the...http://www.newser.com/story/31824/big-sugars-exit-gives-hope-to-everglades.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 09 Jul 2008 10:22:57 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/27837/homosexuality-its-perfectly-natural.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagIt may throw a wrench in Noah's ark-stocking plans, but same-sex relationships appear in many animal species, reports LiveScience.com. The long list of animals that practice gay sex includes bears, penguins, gorillas, and dolphins, among others. But scientists question the act's evolutionary purpose, because it doesn't aid in reproduction....http://www.newser.com/story/27837/homosexuality-its-perfectly-natural.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 19 May 2008 19:28:51 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/27671/wildlife-populations-plunging.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagHumanity is rapidly wiping out the planet's species, sending wildlife populations plunging, the BBC reports. Pollution, habitat loss, and overfishing have cut wildlife numbers as much as a third since 1970 and wipe out 1% of species each year. One of the "great extinction episodes" in Earth's history also spells...http://www.newser.com/story/27671/wildlife-populations-plunging.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 16 May 2008 8:25:41 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/25412/climate-killing-medical-hopes.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe loss of biodiversity on Earth will seriously hamper efforts to cure human disease, AFP reports. Researchers at the UN-backed Business for the Environment conference highlighted undiscovered cures for pain, infections and even cancer that risk being lost forever if humans fail to reverse the widespread extinction of thousands of...http://www.newser.com/story/25412/climate-killing-medical-hopes.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 23 Apr 2008 13:53:37 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/19949/doomsday-seed-vault-to-open.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe North Pole is no Fertile Crescent, but it will house collections of the world's crop seeds in a doomsday vault that will open tomorrow, AFP reports. The vault, built on Norwegian territory, contains three cold chambers that can hold a total of 4.5 million seed samples—twice the...http://www.newser.com/story/19949/doomsday-seed-vault-to-open.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 25 Feb 2008 15:57:03 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/15884/did-bug-bites-do-in-dinos.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagDisease-carrying insects may have contributed to the extinction of the dinosaurs around 65 million years ago, entomologists write in a new book. Scientists found malaria and other parasitic pathogens in insects preserved in amber, and the same parasites were found in fossilized dinosaur waste, the Guardian reports. New plants, pollinated...http://www.newser.com/story/15884/did-bug-bites-do-in-dinos.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 09 Jan 2008 13:07:43 CST