Climate change, behind habitat loss, is the second biggest threat to biodiversity and may become the largest factor responsible for species extinctions in the coming years (Chivian et al. 2008). Forests store carbon and loss of this carbon sink can have a large effect on the climate (Bradshaw et al. 2009).
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This is the biojournalism.com companion podcast for release on 3-15-2008. In the podcast we cover a portion of the science news from the last week in a quiz style format. This weeks contents:
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