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Showing posts with label Extinction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Extinction. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Sunday, February 24, 2013
Wiping out top predators like lions, wolves and sharks ....
Wiping out top predators messes up the climate.
Wiping out top predators like lions, wolves
and sharks is tragic, bad for ecosystems – and can make climate change
worse. Mass extinctions of the big beasts of the jungles, grasslands and
oceans could already be adding to greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
New Scientist
Brown bears starved in northern wilderness of Shiretoko.
Brown bears starved in northern wilderness of Shiretoko.
Last August, because of intense summer heat,
pink salmon did not swim upstream in rivers in far northern Japan as
they usually do.
The fish arrived a month later when temperatures had cooled somewhat.
This was bad news for brown bears that inhabit Shiretoko.
Asahi Shimbun
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Friday, January 25, 2013
Climate change endangers elephants. Planet Earth
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Climate change endangers elephants. 25 January 2013, by Harriet Jarlett. By making new use of historical records, scientists have shown that climate change could have a greater impact on Myanmar's elephants' dwindling numbers than previously thought.
Friday, January 18, 2013
Extinction of river dolphin: What does it mean for the Yangtze River? People's Daily Online
Extinction of river dolphin: What does it mean for the Yangtze River?
People's Daily Online
The extinction of river dolphin indicates the deteriorating environment and ecology of the Yangtze River. The disappearance of creatures in the river denotes the end of the river itself. The research aiming to find out the reasons of the decreasing ...
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People's Daily Online
The extinction of river dolphin indicates the deteriorating environment and ecology of the Yangtze River. The disappearance of creatures in the river denotes the end of the river itself. The research aiming to find out the reasons of the decreasing ...
See all stories on this topic »
West African lions on verge of extinction, report says. The Guardian
West African lions on verge of extinction, report says
The Guardian
It is known for its vibrant culture, oil wealth and huge human population, but few people associate Nigeria with lions. Now a report says the almost forgotten species of west African lions found in countries such as Nigeria are on the verge of ...
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The Guardian
It is known for its vibrant culture, oil wealth and huge human population, but few people associate Nigeria with lions. Now a report says the almost forgotten species of west African lions found in countries such as Nigeria are on the verge of ...
See all stories on this topic »
Monday, January 7, 2013
Having Decimated the Species...Japan: World's Most Expensive Fish Sold for $1.8 Million TIME
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World.
Japan: World's Most Expensive Fish Sold for $1.8 Million. By Patrick
BoehlerJan. 07, 20130. Share. Tuna. Toru Hanai / REUTERS.
Monday, September 17, 2012
Climate change could see a third of Victoria's animal species extinct in 60 years Herald Sun
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VICTORIA could bear the brunt of a climate change front that would see almost a third of animal species wiped out in less than 60 years.
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
Report names the world's 100 most endangered species CNN
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"This has made it increasingly difficult for conservationists to protect the most threatened species on the planet. We have a important moral and ethical decision to make: Do these species have a right to survive or do we have a right to drive them to ...
Monday, September 10, 2012
Endangered Species Act is failing
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Goble contends that while “The ESA was intended to interact with state and local regulations to prevent extinction” the reality is that “these regulations are often insufficient to maintain a species' population, and the ESA itself may hinder the ...
Wednesday, September 5, 2012
From butterflies to giant Squids, world's spineless creatures being pushed to ... Times of India
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NEW DELHI: In a first ever evaluation of how invertebrates, that is, spineless creatures, are surviving in the face of human intervention, a study has found that a jaw dropping one fifth of species are in danger of extinction. Invertebrates make up ...
Monday, September 3, 2012
The world's extinct and endangered species – interactive mapThe Guardian
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However, this map is inherently biased. These are only documented extinctions, after all. While the U.S. is undoubtedly skilled at bulldozing wetlands to build shopping malls and shooting passenger pigeons into extinction just for fun, we are also ...
Friday, August 31, 2012
Butterflies 'at greater risk of extinction than tigers' Newstrack India
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London, Aug 31 (ANI): Bumblebees, beetles and butterflies are more endangered than lions and tigers, a new study has warned. The biggest study of invertebrates ever conducted found that one in five is at risk of dying out.
Black falcon facing extinction: NSW ALP Ninemsn
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The black falcon is a rare Australian bird and should be listed as a vulnerable species, the NSW opposition says. Labor MP Walt Secord says the bird is facing high risk extinction in the medium term. "NSW environment minister Robyn Parker must act and ...
Wednesday, August 29, 2012
One extinction leads to another...and another Mongabay.com
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To study the connections between species, ecologists and students from the University of Exeter's Centre for Ecology and Conservation conducted a lab experiment which analyzed how the extinction of a single predator wasp species impacted its neighbors.
Friday, August 24, 2012
Bats threatened by climate change BBC News
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Mathieu
Lundy, Hayley Sherwin and Ian Montgomery of Queens University, Belfast,
UK reviewed the scientific literature for observed impacts that climate change has had on bat species. They then looked to see how many of the bat species living across ...
Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Britain's insect population decimated by wet weather as experts warn many ... Daily Mail
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The Buglife conservation charity says that bees, wasps, moths and butterflies have all seen their populations drop in 2012 - and rare species may be at risk of extinction due to the elements. Bees and wasps have struggled to find enough nectar and ...
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Life in the slow lane pushes turtles towards extinction The Conversation
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Nearly half of all turtle fauna are threatened or extinct in the wild. Australia is not immune from these global trends: six of our freshwater turtle species are listed as nationally threatened under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity ...
Sea life facing major extinction 'shock' ScienceBlog.com
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Three of the five largest extinctions of the past 500 million years were associated with global warming and acidification of the oceans - trends which also apply today, the scientists say in a new article in the journal Trends in Ecology and Evolution.
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