Figure 1. Biodiversity in the Media.

Figure 1. Biodiversity in the Media.

Figure 1. Biodiversity in the Media: Biodiversity has seen a steady increase in news coverage since 1990 when it barely showed up in newspapers at all. From next to zero appearances in 1990, the newspaper media’s usage of the term biodiversity has grown to nearly 0.1 articles per newspaper in 2000 and 0.2 articles per paper by 2010. The large, recent spike in coverage of biodiversity issues likely relates to 2010 being designated as the official International Year of Biodiversity and the 10th meeting of United Nations Environment Programme’s Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).