Date | News Item |
03/03/2009 |
President Obama restores an endangered species act provision recognizing the importance of protecting biodiversity. |
02/25/2009 |
EOL is a hit in Costa Rica! Two of the nation's leading news outlets have run stories about the project and highlighted the Steering Committee meeting this week at INBio, the country's national biodiversity institute.
La Nacion:
'Enciclopedia de la vida' se alió al INBio para inventariar especies
El Financiero:
Enciclopedia de la Vida se reúne en el InBio |
02/17/2009 |
Oceanographer Sylvia Earle wins the TED Prize and wishes for protection of the oceans and marine species using all means necessary. |
02/15/2009 |
You can now share your videos with EOL on Flickr! We are excited to announce that we’re now indexing videos as well as images from Flickr. Videos uploaded to the
EOL group in Flickr
and tagged with a species name will now be featured in EOL species pages. Visit the
Honeybee
(Apis mellifera)
page to see some recent video additions by Arthur Chapman and Valter Jacinto . Since the group began less than 6 months ago contributors have submitted over 13,000 photos and now over 200 videos which are shown in EOL species pages. Follow the instructions on our group homepage and learn how to submit and tag your photos and videos. We encourage everyone to check out the EOL Flickr group and start submitting photos and videos today! |
02/12/2009 |
In our continuing celebration of Darwin200, explore the interactive Tree of Life. |
02/12/2009 |
The EOL code is now officially open source! All the code needed to build the website is now available and released under the MIT License. For more details, visit the Google Code or GitHub project home page for EOL (the project will also soon be listed on SourceForge). |
02/11/2009 |
Happy Birthday Charles Darwin! Encyclopedia of Life joins the world in celebrating Darwin Day on February 12. Darwin’s theory of natural selection, the foundation of modern biology, explains and was inspired by the glorious diversity of organisms around the world. Some of the species Darwin wrote about include:
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02/03/2009 |
Explore the oceans of the world in Google Earth 5.0! |
01/15/2009 |
Aaron E. Hirsh discusses the importance of citizen science and how the EOL fits into this important trend. |
01/09/2009 |
Check out the PlantingScience.org Summer Institute for High School Teachers. |
01/05/2009 |
See what's new in the latest release of the EOL website. |
01/04/2009 |
Ba humbug! Name of pacific snail attracts seasonal interest - more later. |
12/24/2008 |
Watch a slideshow on how to contribute photos to the EOL Flickr group. |
12/22/2008 |
The U.S. celebration of the Year of Science, organized by the Coalition on the Public Understanding of Science, launches at the SICB conference in Boston, Massachusetts, USA on January 3-7, 2009. |
12/16/2008 |
The 3rd edition of the EOL Newsletter was released - read up on the latest project developments. |
12/01/2008 |
Watch footage of the first known video of a squid with elbows. |
11/13/2008 |
Watch the CBS News Sunday Morning Segment on the EOL (originally aired on October 19, 2008). |
11/12/2008 |
The Census of Marine Life announces many new species discoveries. |
11/10/2008 |
Scientists in the remote Bale mountains of southern Ethiopia are in a race against time to save the world's rarest wolf. |
10/27/2008 |
Thousands of jellyfish cause a nuclear reactor to shut down. |
10/24/2008 |
Read the interview With E.O. Wilson, the Father of the Encyclopedia of Life, conducted by David Pogue for the CBS Sunday Morning show run on October 19, 2008. |
10/23/2008 |
A bar-tailed godwit (genus Limosa) was recently observed to have flown 6,230 miles non-stop across the Pacific. |
10/21/2008 |
Dr. Sylvia Earle, a member of the EOL Distinguished Advisory Board, will be awarded a 2009 TED Prize. |
10/16/2008 |
Fossils provide more information on the "fishopod" that bridges the evolutionary gap between swimm |
10/14/2008 |
EOL has released its plan for a Curator Network. We welcome your comments and suggestions in the forum. |
10/13/2008 |
Scientists believe that a weed spreading throughout the UK could be brought under control by introducing plant-eating predators from Japan. |
10/09/2008 |
Asia's dolphin population is "under threat", prompting conservationists to call for a protection area. |
10/08/2008 |
MBL scientist Osamu Shimomura wins the nobel prize in Chemistry for his discovery of green fluorescent protein in jellyfish (Aequorea victoria). |
10/07/2008 |
A team of scientists from Japan and the UK have filmed the deepest fish ever seen. |
09/18/2008 |
First public annual report of achievements, highlights, and plans for the future. |