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Planetary warning: frogs, the Earth's coal-mine-canaries have been dying by the millions
Years ago canaries were kept in cages deep underground in coal mines as a warning system to detect odorless poison gases. Seattle Biologist, Kerry Kriger, is on a mission to help frog and amphibian species survive, but it is a daunting challenge. For...
Tags: Extinction, frogs, wildife, Obama, climate change, global warming, Save the Frogs, Dr. Kerry Kriger, biological emergency, pollution
A trip into space and glacier melt -- Make the mental connection by watching these videos
This link brings you to a ‘very cool’ story, about a private astronaut’s trip into space last year. This is a fun one – awe-inspiring and fascinating. Richard Garriott was interviewed by Orlando Science Policy Examiner...
Tags: Climate change, deforestation, extinction, space, atmosphere
Squid Invasion
In the 19th century, H.G. Wells, the father of modern science fiction, wrote a short story called “The Sea Raiders.” His description of the physical appearance and numbers of the sea-monsters of fiction reflect those of a true-to-life...
Tags: squid, humboldt squid, fishing, extinction
Extinction Runs In The Family: Efforts To Preserve Evolutionary History
Global calamities like the one that doomed most dinosaurs forever alter the varieties of life found on Earth, but new research shows that it doesn't take a catastrophe to end entire lineages. An analysis of 200 million years of history for marine clams...
Tags: Extinction, Preserve, Evolutionary, History, allnews, Global Warming, Ocean, Fish
Faced with extinction, rarest tortoise on Earth about to become oldest dad
Lonesome George, a large Pinto Island Galapagos tortoise, and the last of his kind, finally found romance and had a successful mating experience after almost a century of celibacy and one previous impregnation that ended in failure. Infamous Lonesome...
Tags: Extinction, Galapagos tortoise, ecotourism, lonesome George, Ecuador, activism
Earth experiencing sixth great mass extinction; this one may be caused by humans
While everyone realizes that there have been mass extinctions in the past, most famously one that included the demise of the dinosaurs, few realize that, right now, we are in the midst of an equally cataclysmic event; the sixth great mass-extinction in...
Tags: Wildlife, conservation, extinction, endangered species, climate change
Yet another species in danger of extinction - bluefin tuna
Man strikes again! Our desire to focus on meat for the main portion of meals has led to the over-fishing of bluefin tuna in our oceans. I hope that you really like your sushi! Bluefin tuna is at the top of the food chain and its largest predator...
Tags: bluefin tuna, tuna, extinction, sustainable food
Rare White Lions Family to be freed from Captivity! (In Pictures)
Conservationists are due to reintroduce a family of extremely rare white lions in South Africa in the next few days. This step they are taking in order to save them from being condemned to captivity and with hopes of reuniting them...
Tags: White lions, semi captivity, captive breeding, Panthera leo, South Africa, rare white lion species, savannah, extinction
Diamonds Provide Evidence of Cold Spell Triggered by Comets
Tiny diamonds have been discovered sprinkled across North America. They are being taken as evidence of a stream of comets that struck the Earth 13,000 years ago. They seem to have caused enough disruption to plunge the planet into a cold spell and...
Tags: diamonds, comets, extinction, cold
Tiger on the edge, nature on the brink
New Delhi :: India | 10 months ago
Credibility
It is over 40 years since the tiger became our national animal and more than 30 years since it became the umbrella under which many of our wildlife areas and species were to be protected. Though tigers still cling to existence, they are closer to the...
Tags: extinction
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