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Polar bears hunted for their high prices
Americans want to protect polar bears, but at $100,000 a head, the Inuit want to hunt them. - Read More
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Biodiversity facts
* Over 15 million species threatened * reasons: agri, pop growth, overfishing, pollution and global warming * Over 75% of major marine fish species are dwindling due to overfishing * Over 60% of coral reefs are at risk * World's tropical forests have been shrinking
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Crop Biodiversity Could Reduce Nitrogen Runoff
Research fm Louisiana State University shows planting strategies that include a diverse range of crops is a technique that could lower nitrogen runoff. Where biodiversity of crops is high, there is less dissolved N found in surrounding watersheds that eventually make it to ocean. N from agriculture fertilizers winds up increasing the local aquatic dissolved nitrate. The increased nitrate leads to the growth of algae, which uses up the available oxygen in the water, creating dead zones. - Read More
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Polar doomsday vault
will hold 2 million seeds, to preserve biodiversity, essentially, a massive seed bank
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