Time for Earth’s 7-Billion-Person Checkup
We practice preventive maintenance on our cars and our health. Why not apply it to our natural resources?
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Biodiversity
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Planetary Boundaries? Go Ask the Romans
Scientists propose guardrails for how far mankind can push the planet tomorrow, while others examine how far collapsed civilizations pushed it yesterday.
A Question of Biodiversity
There's a brush war in the field of ecology in attempting to describe the basis for biodiversity. An experiment that mixes modeling and mud amid California's wildflowers looks for some clarity.
Keeping More Species Around May Dilute Disease Threat
A study on hantavirus and Panama rats suggests another and less obvious benefit to biodiversity — it may diminish the threat humans face from zoonotic diseases.
Lessons From the Reverse Engineering of Nature
A Miller-McCune Research Essay by Columbia University professor Shahid Naeem on the importance of biodiversity and the true significance of the human species.