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  • Study of ocean life shows a “chaotic” balance of nature

    An eight-year study of ocean life shows a "chaotic" balance of nature, and Dutch scientists say this chaos makes it impossible to predict the rise and fall of wild species - anywhere, ever.  More here

  • Hollywood mainstream goes green

    Pimm on film

  • What a Way to Go – Stuart’s Second Film This Year

    What A Way To Go - Life At The End Of Empire A middle class white guy comes to grips with Peak Oil, Climate Change, Mass Extinction, Population Overshoot and the demise of the American Lifestyle. What a Way to Go features interviews with noted authors Daniel Quinn, Derrick Jensen, Jerry Mander, Richard Heinberg, William Catton, Paul Roberts, Chellis Glendinning, Thomas Berry, Richard Manning and Ran Prieur, and scientists William Schlesinger, Stuart Pimm, Douglas Crawford-Brown, and Gerald Cecil. It looks head on at our present global predicament, as oil depletion, climate change, species extinction and population overshoot converge in a

  • FWS Tacitly Accepts Massive Damage to Everglades

    Stuart L. Pimm Background Since 1993, water managers have dumped historically unprecedented amounts of water into the western part of the Everglades — and not the East, which is the natural flow path. In doing so, they have destroyed the natural vegetation over nearly 1000 square kilometers in the West, leaving the eastern Everglades too dry and prone to fire. What has limited their ability to do more damage, has been the Federally listed Cape Sable sparrow. In the past, FWS has made it clear that the western populations of this bird were essential to its survival. Indeed,

  • Flying Blind

    S. R. Loarie, L. N. Joppa, S. L. Pimm, Satellites miss environmental priorities, Trends Ecol. Evol. (2007) See a gallery of images here The Pimm group reports that our ability to monitor the earth from space may be unraveling in an article published online in Trends in Ecology and Evolution. Satellites are an increasingly important tool for monitoring environmental changes from shrinking tropical forests and species extinction to melting icecaps. On October 6th, the United

  • Sigma XI’s Stuart Pimm Receives 2007 William Procter Prize for Scientific Achievement

    Stuart L. Pimm 2007 William Procter Prize for Scientific Achievement Duke University professor Stuart Pimm became a conservation biologist watching species become extinct in Hawaii in the 1970s. That experience led to his commitment to study the scientific issues behind the global loss of biological diversity. Pimm has written over 200 scientific papers and four books, including The Balance of Nature? Ecological Issues in the Conservation of Species and Communities, and his global assessment of biodiversity's future: The World According

  • Tackling the Biodiversity Crisis – BBC 4 Interview with Stuart Pimm & Georgiana Mace

    The Earth is losing its biodiversity at an alarming rate. Species are becoming extinct between 100 and 1,000 times faster than normal, as a direct result of human activity. In 2005, the UN-commissioned Millennium Ecosystem Assessment highlighted the damaging effect that declining biodiversity is having on human well-being, by for example threatening food supplies and the provision of clean air and water that we all depend on to survive. Listen to it here

  • Stuart Pimm Appears in DiCaprio’s The Eleventh Hour

    A Leonardo DiCaprio film, the 11th Hour describes the last moment when change is possible. I think a heard the voice of Thomas Linzey or the ever optimistic Bill McKibben saying something about the the 59th minute of the eleventh hour. The film explores how humanity has arrived at this moment – how we live, how we impact the earth’s ecosystems, and what we can do to change our course. A virtual tour de force of some of the best and most interesting environmentalists and activists describing the state of the world and what we can and need to do

  • Compassionate Conservation

    Ecologist Stuart Pimm feels a moral responsibility to protect the world's "special places"--those richest in biodiversity and most threatened by human advances. For Stuart Pimm and his group of graduate students, the trip always begins the same way--with furious last-minute packing, a visit to CVS for anti-malarials, and a final powwow in the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences. Read more

  • Refining biodiversity conservation priorities

    Harris, G.M., C.N. Jenkins & S.L. Pimm. 2005. Refining biodiversity conservation priorities. Conservation Biology 19:1957-1968. (PDF - Download it

  • Sustaining the Variety of Life

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  • Expedition Diary: Inside a Rain Forest Quest

    Stuart Pimm for National Geographic News March 5, 2004 Can a new high-tech tool predict extinction-prone areas? Back from Brazil, biologist Stuart Pimm recounts the unpredictable Brazilian bird quest that put the tool to the test—and reveals what it's really like on a National Geographic research expedition. The rain forest in Rio's backyard originally covered an area nearly twice the size of Texas. Beset by human sprawl, Brazil's Atlantic forest today covers less than 7 percent of its original extent. Read more

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