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Top Ten Species List Creates Awareness Of Biosphere Diversity
Thu, 24 May 2012 10:21:24 -0700
Ten new species are highlighted in the Top Ten New Species list for 2012, the fifth year for this interesting record. The list, created by the International Institute for Species Exploration at Arizona State University and a committee of scientists from around the world, was released on May 23, the birthday of the Swedish botanist who created the current system of flora and fauna classification ...
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COLUMN: A daily dose of nature will do wonders for you
Sat, 26 May 2012 21:15:51 -0700
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Scientists core into Clear Lake to explore past climate change
Thu, 03 May 2012 10:25:50 -0700
One of the oldest lakes in the world, Clear Lake has deep sediments that contain a record of the climate and local plants and animals going back perhaps 500,000 years. UC Berkeley scientists are drilling cores from the sediments to explore this history and fine-tune models for predicting the fate of today's flora and fauna in the face of global warming and pressure from a growing human population.
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