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Staying current for Chapter 5 See Non-chronological resources for this chapter { Losing Biodiversity Contents } 2025-06-13. Fallowed Fields Are Fueling California’s Dust Problem. By Andrew Chapman, Eos/AGU. Excerpt: California produces more than a third of the vegetables and three quarters of the fruits and nuts in the United States. But water constraints are leaving […]

Staying current for Chapter 4 See Non-chronological resources for this chapter { Losing Biodiversity Contents } 2026-03-11. A genetic trick helps this all-female fish species escape evolutionary doom. By Phie Jacobs, Science. Excerpt: The Amazon molly, which reproduces asexually, has survived—and thrived—at least 10 times longer than predicted by evolutionary theory. …Talk about an odd […]

Staying current for Chapter 3 See Non-chronological resources for this chapter { Losing Biodiversity Contents } 2026-03-11. Slowly, Slowly, ‘Darwin’s Finches of the Snail World’ Return From Near Extinction. By Franz Lidz, The New York Times. Excerpt: …in French Polynesia, where well-meaning ecological interventions have backfired with catastrophic precision. During the 1980s, Partula snails, a […]

Staying current for Chapter 2  { Losing Biodiversity Contents } 2026-03-15. Mining made this US tribal area a toxic wasteland. This Indigenous nation brought it back to life. By Todd Price, The Guardian. Excerpt: The Quapaw Nation is the only US Native community to carry out a cleanup of one of the country’s worst sites […]

Staying current for Chapter 1 {2021}-{2011–2020}-{2001–2010} See Non-chronological resources { Losing Biodiversity Contents } 2026-02-16. The Ballad Of Romeo: The Frog Who Failed To Save His Species, But Didn’t Have To After All. By Dr. Katie Spalding, IFL Science. Excerpt: It’s probably objectively the harshest rejection possible: “not if you were the last guy on […]

Staying current for Chapter 1  Articles from 2001–2010 Stay current index page for chapter 1 { Losing Biodiversity Contents } 2010 Nov 26. The Fight for Yasuni. By Eric Marx, Science. Abstract: Over the past decade, biologists working in Ecuador’s Yasuni National Park and the adjoining Waorani Ethnic Reserve, a 17,000-kilometer section of the Amazon Basin […]

Staying current for Chapter 1  Articles from 2011–2020 Stay current index page for chapter 1 { Losing Biodiversity Contents } 2020-12-17. Ivory From Shipwreck Reveals Elephant Slaughter During Spice Trade. By Rachel Nuwer, The New York Times. Excerpt: In 2008, workers searching for diamonds off the coast of Namibia found a different kind of treasure: hundreds of […]

Staying current for Chapter 1  Articles from 2021 Stay current index page for chapter 1 { Losing Biodiversity Contents } 2021-11-18. Europe’s declining butterflies find new refuge: old quarries and coal mines. By Warren Cornwall, Science Magazine. Excerpt: Abandoned limestone quarries provide a better habitat than some meadows… [https://www.science.org/content/article/europe-s-declining-butterflies-find-new-refuge-old-quarries-and-coal-mines] 2021-10-14. The Most Important Global Meeting […]

Chapter 8 { Losing Biodiversity Contents } “We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.”– Aldo Leopold, 1948 Visit Yellowstone today, and despite roads and tourists everywhere, you may […]

Chapter 7 { Losing Biodiversity Contents } “It is early morning. I am alone on the deck of the research ship Calypso. “The sea is flat and grayish-blue. The air is hot and sultry. There is hardly any breeze. Overhead, heavy dark clouds are silently piling up into billowing pyramids… “What is it about the […]