Encyclopedia of Life dream comes true
…and personalized, the Encyclopedia of Life is an ecosystem of websites that makes all key information about life on Earth accessible to anyone, anywhere in the world. Our goal is…
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Visualizing birds so far
…of Russia, Kazakhstan, and Mongolia (not just the eastern half of Russia as highlighted in map). Note added 24 March 2011: Map corrected to show collecting region for eastern Palearctic…
What you can learn from a tiny bit of DNA
…the globe were noted and today about 40% of world’s 6,671 amphibian species are threatened with extinction (e.g. Stuart et al 2004). The major cause appears to global dissemination of…
Matt Ridley on Peak Farmland
…period while corn acreage merely doubled. Yet the amount of farmland in the world was still rising until recently. The reason is that increased farm productivity has been matched by…
COML Reuters Story
…meeting at laboratories this week as part of an ambitious $1 billion international attempt to record all life in the world’s oceans, officials said Wednesday. The International Census of Marine…
An article in Investor’s Business Daily
…storms and rampant tropical diseases reveal, once again, the brainless-human theory at work. This has long been a problem with the Jeremiahs of the environmental movement. They predict utter ruin…
Jesse awarded an honorary doctorate
…reported on Jesse’s address (p. F5) Oceans speak volumes. Sound spreads widely in the world’s oceans, and the clamour of human activity reaches every cove, says Jesse Ausubel, director of…
Community Risk Profiles: Appendices
…Management at Resources for the Future (RFF). He was formerly Senior Fellow at the World Wildlife Fund and Executive Director of the National Commission on the Environment. Prior to that,…
International barcoders get into print
…barcode science and organizational news? A bright answer arrived in today’s email: the first issue of the International Barcode of Life (iBOL) Bulletin (download pdf or view online flash version)….
Encyclopedia of Life in the news
IT World and Boingboing run stories about progress of the Encyclopedia of Life (EOL). Encyclopedia of Life: Better than Wikipedia! What leeches and ligers can teach you about evolution…