On December 31, the International Year of Biodiversity concluded. And in 2011 the International Biodiversity Decade begins, which the United Nations will officially inaugurate on May 22 with a ceremony to be held in Tokyo (Japan).
Experts from Kew Gardens in London (Great Britain) and the Missouri Botanical Garden (USA) have produced the most comprehensive botanical database created to date, including a list of 1.25 million plant names.
An international team of scientists shows in 'PLoS Biology' that the African savanna elephant and the smaller one in the forest are not the same species but have been differentiated from each other for millions of years. To reach these conclusions, researchers have for the first time compared the Asian elephant, the African forest elephant, the African savanna elephant, the extinct woolly mammoth and the extinct American mastodon together.
The Hespérides ship has left Cádiz giving the starting signal to the Malaspina 2010 expedition, an interdisciplinary project led by the Higher Council for Scientific Research (CSIC) to assess the impact of global change on the ocean and study its biodiversity.
The disappearance of all kinds of species, from bacteria to mammals, poses a threat to human health, since it increases the appearance and transmission of infectious diseases, according to a study published by the journal 'Nature'.
Researchers from the Institute of Marine Sciences of Andalusia have shown for the first time that temperature is the only environmental variable that controls the life cycle of 'Cotylorhiza tuberculata', the jellyfish that during the last 20 years has been dispersed in the Mediterranean basin, on all in the waters of the Mar Menor.
Wind turbines used to obtain wind energy can represent a threat to biodiversity in some areas, since thousands of birds and bats die between their blades every year, especially during migrations such as those that annually fly over the Strait of Gibraltar.
Rhinopithecus strykeri is a new Asian primate found by an international team of primatologists in Myanmar. According to the American Journal of Primatology, he has a flat nose and nostrils turned upwards, so that when it rains the water enters his nose.
Danni Büchner is invited to Sam Dylan's Halloween party. But the "Goodbye Germany" emigrant has no desire for many other party guests. And find clear words.
