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Keyword - Biodiversity

- Efforts to sustain biodiversity fall short - Premium content
  
  But the issue is gaining attention as nations prepare for next year's summit.
  
  18 November 2009
- Biodiversity: Biodiversity's bright spot
  
  While species losses mount worldwide, conservationists in Brazil have made great strides towards saving the golden lion tamarin and its forest habitat from destruction. Gene Russo reports.
  
  18 November 2009
- Biodiversity: Putting a price on nature - Premium content
  
  Gretchen Daily knows the value of ecosystems — but can ascribing financial worth to them help to maintain biodiversity? Emma Marris meets an ecosystem-services evangelist.
  
  18 November 2009
- Biodiversity: On the origin of bar codes - Premium content
  
  Genetic sequences in a cell's mitochondria can be used to accurately determine species. Could this be because they are responsible for creating what they identify? Nick Lane investigates.
  
  18 November 2009
- 10,000 genomes to come - Premium content
  
  Vertebrates in line for massive sequencing project.
  
  4 November 2009
- Hazy goals hold up conservation - Premium content
  
  Lack of targets hampers efforts to save species.
  
  19 October 2009
- Argentina's forests dwindle - Premium content
  
  Biodiversity at risk as forests give way to desert.
  
  9 October 2009
- Forest definition comes under fire
  
  Ecologists accuse framework convention of barking up the wrong tree.
  
  19 August 2009
- Biodiversity: Rack and field - Premium content
  
  Ecologists have struggled to reconcile what they see in the lab and in the wild. But both views are needed to understand the effects of extinction, finds Virginia Gewin.
  
  19 August 2009
- Deforestation emissions on the rise - Premium content
  
  Amazon study suggests denser forest yields will mean more carbon release.
  
  29 July 2009