May 22, 2012
Life on Earth is old. Fossil records indicate that the first simple organisms emerged about 3.8 billion years ago, and it took another 1.8 billion years for multicelled organisms to evolve. Life is also extremely diverse. Best estimates put the current number of multicelled species on Earth at about 10 million — probably the greatest number of species that has ever inhabited our planet at a given time.
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May 21, 2012
May 18, 2012
In 2010 a team of scientists led by CI conducted a Rapid Assessment Program (RAP) survey in southwestern Suriname, which led to the discovery of more than 40 species new to science. In March of this year, a similar ...
May 15, 2012
Two years ago in Nagoya, Japan, 193 countries meeting for the U.N. Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) agreed on 20 targets to reduce global pressures on our natural world. Known as the Aichi Biodiversity Targets, these goals cover everything from avoiding extinctions of threatened species to reducing subsidies that are harmful to the environment to protecting 17 percent of the Earth’s land and 10 percent of...
May 14, 2012
CI-Samoa’s Schannel van Dijken is currently sailing across the Pacific with the Pacific Voyagers project to raise awareness about ocean health and reconnect with his Polynesian heritage. In today’s post, he recounts a recent visit to Cocos Island off the Costa Rican coast, an important site for CI’s marine work in the Eastern Tropical Pacific Seascape. Read his...
May 10, 2012
In my decades of traveling the world, I’ve gotten to see firsthand many of the fascinating human cultures inhabiting our planet, from the Kayapó of the Brazilian Amazon to the San people of the Kalahari to the multitude of cultures of Melanesia.
Many people from these cultures, including a wide variety of indigenous peoples, live in the most biologically rich regions of our planet — regions that hold the key to maintaining global...
May 9, 2012
April 17, 2012
California has long had the reputation for being one of the U.S.’s most beautiful and environmentally-conscious states. This week, as leaders in business, government and the environmental movement gather in southern California to discuss sustainability at Fortune Brainstorm GREEN, we’re bringing you a series of blogs spotlighting the natural beauty of the California coast — seen through the eyes of photographer and...
The world's leading corporations — based in Shanghai and other business hubs across the globe — must take immediate steps to reduce...
April 16, 2012
California has long had the reputation for being one of the U.S.’s most beautiful and environmentally-conscious states. This week, as leaders in business, government and the environmental movement gather in southern California to discuss sustainability at Fortune Brainstorm Green, we’re bringing you a series of blogs spotlighting the natural beauty of the California coast — seen through the eyes of photographer and...