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- Antibiotic resistance
- Biodiversity
- Bird flu
- Climate change & insect-borne disease
- Desert science
- Indigenious Knowledge
- Malaria
- Reducing forest emissions
- Tropical cyclones
- Tuberculosis
List of terms for Biodiversity
Climate change is the greatest challenge facing the world today. Long-term development planning must now include measures to deal with it.
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Biological Diversity
Biological Diversity — more commonly known as biodiversity — is a collective term used to describe the totality and variety of living organisms on Earth. Biodiversity is usually classified at three levels — genes, species and ecosystems.
Information Services
Missed the Global Health Forum 2009?
Our blog, by SciDev.Net columnist Priya Shetty, will fill you in, as will our interview with the Global Forum's Gill Samuels
A climate for disease?
Will climate change worsen the burden of insect-borne disease? The scientific jury is still out
