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Decline of carbon-dioxide-gobbling plankton coincided with ancient global cooling
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Jan 08, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The evolutionary history of diatoms -- abundant oceanic plankton that remove billions of tons of carbon dioxide from the air each year -- needs to be rewritten, according to a new Cornell ...
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First ever worldwide census analysis of caribou/reindeer numbers reveals dramatic decline
Jun 11, 2009 |
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Caribou and reindeer numbers worldwide have plunged almost 60% in the last three decades. The dramatic revelation came out of the first ever comprehensive census analysis of this iconic species carried out by biologists at ...
Do zoo programs help save endangered species?
Apr 13, 2009 |
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Do zoos have serious programs to save endangered species, besides putting a few captives on display for everyone to see? (Kelly Traw, Seattle)
2010 species pledge set to fail: conservationists
Jul 02, 2009 |
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The world's paramount authority on species loss has warned that pledges to roll back the threat to biodiversity by 2010 were running into the sand.
Bumblebee re-introduced to UK
Jun 13, 2009 |
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This month, a campaign was launched to re-introduce the short-haired bumblebee to the UK from New Zealand.
'Weedy' bird species may win as temperatures rise
Jun 10, 2009 |
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Climate change is altering North American winter bird communities in ways that models currently favored by ecologists fail to predict.
1 moose, 2 moose: Scientist seeks correction in number of species
Jun 13, 2009 |
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It is a misinterpretation of the application of the bedrock of scientific naming with regard to the number of moose species that Kris Hundertmark, a University of Alaska Fairbanks wildlife geneticist at the Institute of Arctic ...
When hosts go extinct, what happens to their parasites?
Jun 01, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Hands wring and teeth gnash over the loss of endangered species like the panda or the polar bear. But what happens to the parasites hosted by endangered species? And although most people would ...
Grey wolf withdrawn from US endangered list
May 04, 2009 |
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The grey wolf was Monday taken off the US list of endangered species, making a comeback 35 years after it virtually disappeared and can now be hunted in most US states, officials said.
Rare vine in Hawaii designated endangered species
Mar 17, 2009 |
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(AP) -- A rare Hawaii vine has been added to the endangered species list, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said Tuesday.
Society warns cuckoo bird in danger of extinction
May 28, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Britain's cuckoo bird, known for its distinctive call, is in danger of extinction along with 51 other species, the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds said in a new report Thursday.
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