Environmental Sciencehttp://www.brighthub.com/environment/science-environmental.aspxenCan The Goddess of the Yangtze Survive?: China's Last Minute Attempt to Save the Remainder of the Yangtze River Dolphinshttp://www.brighthub.com/environment/science-environmental/articles/9484.aspxTue, 22 Sep 2009 16:39:00 GMTb133e95a-c263-4882-8f2a-b24547eff78e:9484NikiRayneCan China save the last of the Yangtze River Dolphins? Find out more about this nearly extinct white river dolphin. About the Yangtze The Yangtze River Dolphin, also known as the Baiji, is the rarest marine mammal in the world being declared as “functionally extinct” by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) last year. Th...Measuring Biodiversity at the Species and Ecosystem Levelshttp://www.brighthub.com/environment/science-environmental/articles/45716.aspxSun, 16 Aug 2009 02:04:33 GMTb133e95a-c263-4882-8f2a-b24547eff78e:45716writermayMeasuring biodiversity is a key step in preventing further loss of biodiversity. Unfortunately, the current procedures of measuring biodiversity are arduous and imprecise. Nevertheless, the importance of biodiversity could not be ignored and here are ways of measuring it at the species and ecosystem What is biodiversity Biodiversity or biological d...