
How does biodiversity affect human health? Can we put a price tag on it?

How does biodiversity affect human health? Can we put a price tag on it?

We’re running out of time to find and discover all the species on Earth and the benefits they provide. Here’s a clever way to speed the process up!

Meet some of the new species that Academy researchers discovered last year.

What influences biodiversity? A staggering number of arthropods.

Conservation depends on this practice…

Biologically diverse algae cleanup streams!

Yes… but the ocean and its population will be very different.

2010 was a roller coaster year for science news—think exoplanets, synthetic-life, arsenic-eating bacteria (or not!), earthquakes, volcanoes and of course, the Gulf oil spill.

The loss of a species, from beneficial bacteria to charismatic mammals, can be devastating to the planet, and, according to a new study, harmful to human health.

A group of scientists is proposing to identify and describe all the Earth’s species in the next 50 years. Why? Is it possible?
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