News Roundup

  • One-horned rhino “demoted” from IUCN list. Weird choice of words — are there any other cases where being demoted is a good thing?
  • Check out this very cool animation of the botanical collection of California, in time and space. It almost looks like the lights at night maps, but the pattern of collection isn’t actually correlated with human density. So while you can kind of pick out that necklace of Central Valley cities, SF barely registers. And does Humboldt County have some kind of ban on specimen collection? Are they paranoid about researchers finding the wrong, ahem, plant? [Thanks Brian H!]
Posted by Tim on October 23rd, 2008 • • Add a comment
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