Posts Tagged ‘species’

New Study on Extinction Elicits the View from Somewhere

January 28, 2013 by Keith Kloor | Filed in biodiversity, climate change, ecology, environment, extinction, select | No comments

https://drreddyfamilydoctors.com/services/ Before climate change took center stage, the most hotly contested environmental debate was over how many species there were in the world and how fast they were going extinct. A new review paper in the journal Science returns us to the subject. How this study has been filtered and interpreted in the media is interesting. Before… Continue Reading…

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In Praise of Naturalists

February 28, 2011 by Keith Kloor | Filed in naturalists, species | No comments

In his final column in a historical series about “how the discovery of species has changed our lives,” Richard Conniff notes: Were it not for the work of naturalists, you and I would probably be dead.  Or if alive, we would be far likelier to be crippled, in pain, or otherwise incapacitated.