New encyclopaedia to bring life under a ‘macroscope’ -DAWN - International; February 29, 2008

New encyclopaedia to bring life under a ‘macroscope’ -DAWN - International; February 29, 2008
New encyclopaedia to bring life under a ‘macroscope’
By Stephen Leahy
BROOKLIN (Canada): Free, authoritative and online: 1.8 million species.That is the ultimate goal of the Encyclopedia of Life project, which put its first 30,000 species on the Internet this week. This ambitious global project will provide the details of every known species — habitat, range, lifecycle, pictures and more — and archive everything online so anyone can access this important information about life on Earth.