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Action Bioscience: Sea Turtles: Ancient Creatures With Modern Problems
Ancient sea turtles have peaceful creatures living in a world that is challenging their existence. Take a look at this article and its many resources and lesson plans to understand what is causing the decline in their population.
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Action Bioscience: Shifting Baselines: Slow Motion Disaster in the Sea
A baseline is a standard point of reference when measuring various things. The catch phrase, "shifting baselines," refers to the slow changes occurring in the environment that ultimately change what the environment was and what is...
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Action Bioscience: Why Do We Need an Amphibian Ark?
Amphibians have a challenge to rise above and are unable to succeed without the help of a vision like Amphibian Ark. This program is viewed to be a global effort to protect amphibians from extinction and promote the benefits these life...
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Action Bioscience: Evolution's Importance to Society
Take a look at this article and find out what things we do everyday that impact or are impacted by evolution. Resources and educator links provided.
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Action Bioscience: New Threats Endanger Great Whales
An article addressing new worries of the already endangered population of great whales of the world.
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Action Bioscience: The Challenge of Living at High Altitudes
Physical anthropologists are studying the ongoing evolution of modern humans. This article features research done on those living in high altitudes over thousands of years with the intention to discover things such as the role of natural...
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Action Bioscience: Ecology and Economics
Natural systems studied by ecologists and human systems studied by economists must work together to ensure a future of biodiversity. This interview identifies the needs for both and ways in which the two can balance conservation with...
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Action Bioscience: Urban Heat Islands: Hotter Cities
Explanation of three different types of heat islands and what happens to make cities warmer than some of their surrounding areas.
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Action Bioscience: International Water Facility
Find out what can be done to clean up the world's water sources to provide safe drinking water because at least 35% of the world does not have it available to them and only 3% of the world's water is fresh.
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Action Bioscience: The Foja Mountains of Indonesia: Exploring the Lost World
Explorers have been investigating an area of New Guinea, home of the Foja Mountains, for their unique biodiversity. The research took nearly 25 years and produced intriguing results. Take a look at the information learned and check out...
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Action Bioscience: Biopiracy: The Legal Perspective
Many nations are home to unique materials that scientists use for research towards medicine, food, other types of sustainability. Historically, researchers used to be able to freely pull biologic material from other nations and bring...
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Action Bioscience: Searching for Nature's Medicines
With awareness we can protect biodiversity so as to allow nature to provide us with medicines, medical research, and knowledge that living things depend upon other living things.
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Action Bioscience: Plant Genebanks: Food Security
Over time everything changes a little bit, just take a look at the theory of evolution. With the descent of biodiversity agriculturalists have developed a system using genebanks to maintain the crops that sustain the majority of the...
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Action Bioscience: Seawater Desalination: Panacea or Hype?
An article and resources for research and teaching that explains how technologies are being used to desalinate ocean waters to be used for various municipal, industrial, and domestic purposes including a means to provide fresh water to...
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Action Bioscience: Ecotourism and Its Impact on Forest Conservation
Get a handle on the benefits, both economically and ecologically, of ecotourism through this article and its additional resources.
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Action Bioscience: Beach Closings: Science Versus Public Perception
The media is relaying inaccurate information as to why an increasing number of beaches are being closed. Understand the scientific reasoning for the closures versus the political and economic motivated reasons.
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Action Bioscience: The Weight of a Petal: The Value of Botanical Gardens
Food, medicine, and clean air are just a few of the benefits that plants give us. Delve into an article highlighting the significance of botanical gardens and peruse the additional research and educator resources offered.
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Action Bioscience: Designer Babies: Ethical Considerations
Ethical considerations are discussed in an article about the scientific ability to create "designer babies." Identify safety, moral use, effect on society, and whether it is for enhancement or therapy when humans have the option to...
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Action Bioscience: Designer Babies: Ethical Considerations
As biotechnology could evolve to the point where parents to be are presented with the potential to select the genes of their offspringGM. What ethical considerations arise with this new science? Delve into this article to explore the topic.
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Action Bioscience: Designing Insects
Biologists are busy developing and testing insects that are "homemade" for a variety of reasons, but an example would be genetically modifying a mosquito to not carry a particular strain of malaria. There are pros and cons to these...
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Action Bioscience: Primer on Ethics and Human Clonings
This artical evaluates the ethics involved with cloning humans. Issues such as legal rights and protection and determining whether it is unnatural self-engineering are addressed.
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Action Bioscience: The Role of Bioethics in Medical Education
An article identifying how critical bioethics education is for those studying and practicing medicine in the 21st century.
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Action Bioscience: Genetic Engineering & Xenotransplantation
In efforts to cure some cases of Type I diabetes scientists are considering xenotransplantation. With this practice, islets from animals other than human are transplanted into humans. With further studies scientists will discover...
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Action Bioscience: Ethical Issues in Genetic Engineering and Transgenics
Utilizing the developments in transgenic biotechnology and genetic engineering for use in the medical fields raises ethical questions.