10 Things to Know About, Biodiversity

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Biological diversity has made our planet habitable for billions of years, and now more than ever we're realizing we need to understand, manage, and protect our species, habitats, and ecosystems to ...

Biological diversity has made our planet habitable for billions of years, and now more than ever we're realizing we need to understand, manage, and protect our species, habitats, and ecosystems to keep it that way. This episode visits the National Botanic Gardens in Ireland to see how centuries-old plant samples can provide clues to changes in our biodiversity.It introduces researchers who are using plants, trees, and even insect and birdsong recordings to measure and monitor environmental and climate change by combining field data with the latest satellite imaging. It also looks at the critical role of the bumblebee in pollination and biodiversity and considers how a seemingly innocuous imbalance in biodiversity can have lethal consequences.

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