Stewart Aitchison has been exploring, photographing, teaching, and
writing about biodiversity, geology, and the American Southwest for forty years.
Not exact matches
She
writes about the impact of coffee production on birds,
biodiversity, and the environment, along with related topics, at Coffee & Conservation, coffeehabitat.com
So forget
about the chocolate you ate as a kid and check out these smaller producers, because, as Simran Sethi
writes in her book * Bread, Wine, Chocolate: The Slow Loss of Foods We Love *, the cacao you're accustomed to has led to a marked decrease in
biodiversity in cacao - growing regions.
• In a News Focus article, Kelly Servick
wrote about a new research field, soundscape ecology, which uses sounds as a proxy for
biodiversity.
«The future of freshwater
biodiversity is inextricably linked to land and water infrastructure management,»
writes N LeRoy Poff of Colorado State University in his guest editorial for ESA Frontiers, in which he contemplates whether rivers have changed so much that we need to rethink some of our conceptions
about restoration.
Key facts
about the lesson are: The content covered by the lesson are; the definition of deforestation, methods of deforestation (slash and burn, industrial clearing etc), the causes of deforestation and the effects of deforestation (on the climate, on the soil, on
biodiversity and on people) Learning resources used in the lesson are; images (including a satellite image), map, video clips, analysis and
writing task and a quiz.
In this lesson, students read a short text [5 - 10 minutes]
about how exotic pet ownership leads to loss in
biodiversity, and respond to
writing prompts.
As students discuss ideas
about the importance of
biodiversity,
write ideas on the board.
In this Frontier, students explore engaging science texts and resources and apply what they learn to
write a short passage
about biodiversity.
I have
written extensively
about sustainability ethics, and
biodiversity ethics, and have
written most recently with growing interest on economic development ethics.
We've
written a number of times
about the importance of wetlands in sequestering carbon, preserving
biodiversity, and preventing natural disaster.
I don't tend to
write much
about this, but my concern over global warming is based, to a great extent, on the losses in
biodiversity that will inevitably result from climate change, even at rates that don't greatly damage human economic activity in general.
When I
wrote a post
about products that help promote soil
biodiversity, some commenters were skeptical
about commercial products that are shipped long distances with all the packaging and waste that goes with them.
Melbourne
About Blog John Englart
write on the effects of human induced climate change, sea level rise, ocean acidification,
biodiversity loss, environmental and social impacts of global warming, and climate protests.