Category: Books Online

Staying current for Chapter 7 See Non-chronological resources for this chapter { Losing Biodiversity Contents } 2026-03-12. What’s the catch of the day? By Joseph Travis and David Reznick, Science. Excerpt: The inexorable warming of Earth and its oceans will upend many biological systems on which humans depend. A large question looming on this horizon is what food will […]

Staying current for Chapter 6 { Losing Biodiversity Contents } 2026-03-04. North American birds: from decline to free fall. By Science Advisor. Excerpt: North American bird populations have been falling for decades. But a new study in Science suggests something even more troubling: In many places, those declines are accelerating. Using data from 1033 North American […]

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 } 2025-10-23. After centuries of trauma, Montana’s Blackfeet Nation turns to an old friend for food sovereignty: bison. By Aaron Agosto, The Guardian. Excerpt: For the Blackfeet, bison are as much a source of food as they are a part of their cultural identity. Before the […]

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 […]