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Western Students Jump into Work at Northwest Laboratory’s COVID-19 Testing Facility 2020-04-29
Western Washington University biologist explores how biodiversity can help – or hurt -- carbon storage in forests 2018-08-29
WWU student Bre Mills completes prestigious two-year Doris Duke Fellowship at UC Santa Cruz 2018-01-11
Six faculty receive university awards 2013-07-31
Biodiversity helps sustain human life, scientists say

Experts worldwide have long talked about the importance of preserving the diversity of life for the sake of beauty and wonder, or in the hopes of new medical discoveries, or for moral reasons.

A group of scientists is reporting that biodiversity also helps sustain…

2012-06-08
WWU biologist: Loss of plant biodiversity could affect ecosystems as much as global climate change, pollution

The scientists gathered at a workshop in California knew that shrinking biological diversity affects an ecosystem's plant growth, based on the many experiments that have shown just that.
"But how big are those effects, really?" said David Hooper, a biology professor at…

2012-05-07
Biodiversity loss from species extinctions may rival pollution and climate change impacts

Species extinction and loss of biodiversity could be as devastating for the earth as climate change and air pollution. That's the finding of a new study by a group of scientists from nine countries. The research aims for the first time to comprehensively compare the consequences of…

2012-05-03
Scientists: Extinctions Just as Damaging as Climate Change

A new paper in the prestigious science journal Nature assesses one of the big questions in ecology today: How do species extinctions rack up compared to other global change issues like global warming, ozone holes, acid rain, and nutrient pollution (overfertilization)?

2012-05-03
Could biodiversity loss rival impacts of climate change? 2012-05-03
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