We often hear about new medicines being discovered in inconspicuous frogs, plants or deep-sea mollusks, but here comes a story
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We often hear about new medicines being discovered in inconspicuous frogs, plants or deep-sea mollusks, but here comes a story
Continue reading "In the News: Will Dolphins Help Us Cure Disease?"
I remember when I was living in Tanzania in 2008, I stopped by the Wildlife Conservation Society office in Mbeya
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As the saying goes, it’s the little things in life that really matter. Literally. I’m talking about the millions of
Last week I was in Japan looking for giant salamanders (Andrias japonicus), and for two days I stayed in the
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As the global extinction crisis continues, we are constantly discovering new ways in which the world’s many species interact with
The most recent version of the IUCN Red List (published in November 2009) revealed that species extinction continues at a
As the climax of the 2010 International Year of Biodiversity, the world’s governments* will meet in Nagoya, Japan, in October,
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Last week, CI scientist Robin Moore spent two days traveling in the Sierra Gorda Biosphere Reserve, one of Mexico’s most
This week, an Associated Press article about drought in Kenya brought millions of people’s attention to the deep connections between
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A recent scientific expedition in Madagascar’s Ankeniheny-Zahamena rainforests has found evidence of the greater bamboo lemur (Prolemur simus) in twice