Agence France-Presse: Most conflicts fought in the second half of the last century were waged in biologically diverse, fragile places, with many negative consequences and a few surprising positive ones, a study said Friday. A team of international conservation scientists found that 81 percent of conflicts fought between 1950 and 2000 in which at least 1,000 people died played out in “biodiversity hotspots” from the Himalayas in Asia to the coastal forests of east Africa. The hotspots contain the …