February 27, 2018
Geomedia: Books: "Half-Earth" is only half-compelling
Edward O. Wilson, professor emeritus and honorary curator in entomology at Harvard, is a scientist of acclaim and renown, a naturalist and …
The EARTH archive
Biodiversity
Explore the archive by subject.
6 articles · Page 1 of 1
November 15, 2017
Dino deaths cleared the way for frogs
Frogs make up almost 90 percent of amphibians, and with 6,775 described species, frogs are considered one of the most diverse groups of …
May 15, 2017
Meteorites did not spark Ordovician biodiversification
During the Ordovician Period, roughly 470 million years ago, an asteroid the size of a small moon collided with another rocky object in the belt …
January 18, 2017
Downgrading the Great Dying
The end-Permian extinction, nicknamed the “Great Dying,” is thought to be the deadliest mass extinction in Earth’s history. Many textbooks claim …
October 6, 2015
A Cambrian-like explosion of mammals in the Mid-Jurassic
Dinosaurs dominated the continents during the Mesozoic, and for a long time, paleontologists assumed our mammalian ancestors kept a low-profile …
January 5, 2012
Gulf oil spill threatens subsurface biodiversity
Brown pelicans mired in oily mud along the Louisiana coast are icons of the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill, daily reminders of the ongoing …