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Increasing, or at least sustaining, genetic diversity is crucial as it makes a species more adept at adapting to changing ...

By Kristine Sabillo Genetic diversity within many species is declining globally, according to a recently published study.

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Gene pools are getting dangerously shallow for many species but new research shows conservation efforts are helping to ...

In the most comprehensive global analysis of genetic diversity ever undertaken, an international team of scientists has found that the genetic diversity is being lost across the globe but that ...

A blizzard whips the Danish, Greenlandic and Faroe Islands flags above the Joint Arctic Command headquarters overlooking the harbor of Nuuk, the capital of Greenland. The small military outpost ...