Tag: Biodiversity

  • Nation & World

    Field school brings students to Borneo

    Morning came in the middle of the night in the hikers’ hut partway up the side of Borneo’s towering Mount Kinabalu.

    8 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Newsmakers

    Katherine Swartz, professor of health policy and economics at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), has been elected to the Institute of Medicine (IOM). Swanee Hunt, founding director of the Women and Public Policy Program at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) and an adjunct lecturer in public policy at the School, was inducted…

    2 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Popular causes not necessarily best

    Conservation policies favoring keystone animal species are insufficient to conserve the world’s biodiversity because many of these target animals don’t live in the world’s most biodiverse spots: lowland tropical forests under pressure from agriculture, logging, and other human activities.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Center for Health spoof takes on serious subject

    The Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School recently launched “The (Bio)DaVersity Code” — a short, Flash-animated spoof of “The Da Vinci Code” that illustrates the importance of biodiversity to the planet’s health. Free Range Graphics, creators of the award-winning “The Meatrix,” produced the short.

    1 minute
  • Nation & World

    Wilson urges alliance to save species

    Edward O. Wilson sees a future in which science and religion join forces to save the natural world. Without such an alliance, said the legendary Harvard biologist and author, an alternative future is in store for the human race: one of accelerating environmental cataclysm fueled by overpopulation, deforestation, declining fisheries, and climate change.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    E.O. Wilson, “Ant Man”

    E. O. Wilson reflects on insect societies, human society, and the importance of biodiversity.

    1 minute