News tagged with tropical rainforest
Cautious conservation: How to ensure that slowing global warming will protect biodiversity
Nov 16, 2009 |
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While it is clear that massive destruction of tropical rainforests poses a serious threat to the incredibly rich biodiversity found on Earth, other hazards are not so explicit. An international group of prominent scientists ...
Killer bees may increase food supplies for native bees
Oct 01, 2009 |
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Aggressive African bees were accidentally released in Brazil in 1957. As "killer bees" spread northward, David Roubik, staff scientist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, began a 17-year study ...
Bats without borders: World's largest bats need international protection
Aug 25, 2009 |
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Without at least a temporary reprieve from hunting, the world's largest species of fruit bat, Pteropus vampyrus or the "large flying fox", could be driven to extinction in Peninsular Malaysia at the current hunting rate, ...
Climate caused biodiversity booms and busts in ancient plants and mammals
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 05, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A period of global warming from 53 million to 47 million years ago strongly influenced plants and animals, spurring a biodiversity boom in western North America, researchers from three research museums report ...
Scary ancient spiders revealed in 3-D models, thanks to new imaging technique (w/ Video)
Aug 05, 2009 |
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Early relatives of spiders that lived around 300 million years ago are revealed in new three-dimensional models, in research published today in the journal Biology Letters.
The secret jungles of ancient France
Jul 16, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Ah, Paris. Land of the Eiffel Tower, delicious French bread and... tropical rainforests? Sacrebleu! It seems unlikely, but scientists have discovered evidence that France may have been a hot, wet tropical ...
Study reveals potential to amass more carbon in eastern North American forests
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Apr 06, 2009 |
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With climate change looming, the hunt for places that can soak up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is on.
The pluses and (mostly) minuses of biofuels
Feb 23, 2009 |
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Speakers at last week’s AAAS meeting presented abundant evidence that tropical rainforest destruction has accelerated in recent years, at least in part because of the worldwide push to produce more biofuels.
