Biodiversity is much in the news this week as the Encylopedia of Life launches on the web [ark] and Norway's "Doomsday Vault" [ark] opens its global seed bank [search]. Biodiversity databases [search] are fine, we must know species to understand and save them; as are efforts to conserve crop seeds [

Biodiversity is much in the news this week as the Encylopedia of Life launches on the web [ark] and Norway's "Doomsday Vault" [ark] opens its global seed bank [search].

Biodiversity databases [search] are fine, we must know species to understand and save them; as are efforts to conserve crop seeds [search] for an emergency that given continued inaction on climate and ecosystem loss seems increasingly probable.