Category Archives: Biodiversity

Ilana Stein – Did you know that extinct species can be brought back to life through a process called de extinction? We could create a world that we share with the great wooly mammoths!

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Harry Cooper – Pine beetles, or bark beetles, have been a part of the rocky mountain ecosystem for a long time. However as the Earth’s climate is warming, they have started to destroy the forests in which they live.

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Ilana Stein – While the term is in fact a shortening of “biological diversity”, biodiversity is defined as “The variety of plant and animal life in the world or in a particular habitat, a high level of which is usually considered to be important and desirable.”

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Harry Cooper – Humans have altered the natural environment to a considerable extent. Building massive cities, and roads has completely reshaped the landscape of the natural world to better suit humans. However, this new and changing world is certainly not beneficial to everything living in it.

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Sydney Cohen – Did you know that human health is directly linked to the health of our natural world? It’s true! The more diverse our ecosystems are, the healthier we all are. Biodiversity is essential for human survival, and it is important that we do everything we can to protect it.

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Harry Cooper – Forests are some of the most important places on Earth. They provide numerous environmental benefits from heat mitigation, control of climate change through carbon storage, prevention of extreme weather and drought, and protection of biodiversity.

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Harry Cooper – Polar bears have long been a poignant symbol in the fight against climate change. The desperate pictures of polar bears stranded on blocks of melting sea ice, encapsulate a feeling of natures vulnerability in the face of so much human created change.

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Ilana Stein – In a world where size matters, the question of the largest tree in the world is a good one. But how do we measure trees? Is the biggest tree the widest tree? The tallest tree? Perhaps it is the volume of the tree’s trunk?

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Sydney Cohen – One of the most alarming things happening in our oceans is coral bleaching. Although this phenomenon has been observed for decades, recent studies have shown that it’s becoming more frequent.

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