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| Acid Oceans From Carbon Dioxide Will Endanger One Third Of Marine Life, Scientists Predict
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| The world's oceans are becoming more acid, with potentially devastating consequences for corals and the marine organisms that build reefs and provide much of the Earth's breathable oxygen.
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October 19, 2007 |
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| Agency reverses endangered species rulings
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| The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Tuesday reversed seven rulings that denied endangered species increased protection, after an investigation found the actions were tainted by political pressure from a former senior Interior Department official.
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November 28, 2007 |
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| Bees Disease: One Step Closer To A Cure
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| Scientists in Germany have discovered a new mechanism of infection for the most fatal bee disease. American Foulbrood (AFB) is the only infectious disease which can kill entire colonies of bees. Every year, this notifiable disease is causing considerable economic loss to beekeepers all over the world. The only control measure is to destroy the infected hive.
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May 4, 2008 |
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| Benefits Of 80 Million Years Without Sex
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| Bdelloid rotifers are asexual organisms, meaning that they reproduce without males. Without sex, these animals lack many of the ways in which sexual animals adapt over generations to survive in their natural environment.
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October 12, 2007 |
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| Biologists Race To Clear A Path To Survival For Northwestern Cougars
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| When voters in Washington state banned hound hunting with an eye to protecting cougars, they unwittingly triggered a chain of events that wildlife biologists are still trying to understand.
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February 15, 2008 |
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| Bison Can Thrive Again, Study Says
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| Bison can repopulate large areas from Alaska to Mexico over the next 100 years provided a series of conservation and restoration measures are taken, according to continental assessment of this iconic species by the Wildlife Conservation Society and other groups.
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April 30, 2008 |
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| Climate threat to biodiversity
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| Global temperatures predicted for the coming centuries could trigger a mass extinction, UK scientists have warned.
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October 24, 2007 |
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| Clovis-age Overkill Didn't Take Out California's Flightless Sea Duck
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| Clovis-age natives, often noted for overhunting during their brief dominance in a primitive North America, deserve clemency in the case of California's flightless sea duck. New evidence says it took thousands of years for the duck to die out.
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March 18, 2008 |
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| Critically Endangered Seabirds Not Finding Mates
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| A study into one of the world's rarest seabirds provides knowledge that could help avoid extinction. Molecular analysis of the Critically Endangered Magenta Petrel Pterodroma magentae (also known as the Chatham Island Taiko) discovered that 95% of non-breeding adults were male. This suggests that critically low population levels may be causing male birds difficulty in attracting a mate.
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April 29, 2008 |
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| Deadly Ape Heart Disease Puzzles Zoos
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| Mopie looked the picture of ape fitness: His shoulders were broad and imposing, his silver-haired back sculpted and muscular, his biceps bulging as wide as a wrestler's thighs when he scratched his head.
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April 6, 2008 |
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| Dwarf Cloud Rat Rediscovered After 112 Years
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| A team of Filipino and American scientists have rediscovered a highly distinctive mammal -- a greater dwarf cloud rat -- that was last seen 112 years ago. Furthermore, it has never before been discovered in its natural habitat and was thought by some to be extinct.
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May 2, 2008 |
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| Endangered Right Whales Protected With New Warning Buoys In Shipping Lanes
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| Endangered North Atlantic right whales are safer along Massachusetts Bay's busy shipping lanes this spring, thanks to a new system of smart buoys. The buoys recognize whales' distinctive calls and route the information to a public Web site and a marine warning system, giving ships the chance to avoid deadly collisions.
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April 29, 2008 |
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| Extinction threat to wild salmon
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| Wild salmon on Canada's west coast are being driven to extinction by parasites from nearby fish farms, a study claims.
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December 13, 2007 |
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| Fisherman catches 'living fossil'
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| An extremely rare "living fossil" caught by a fisherman in Indonesia is being examined by scientists.
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August 1, 2007 |
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| Gorillas head race to extinction
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| Gorillas, orangutans, and corals are among the plants and animals which are sliding closer to extinction.
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September 12, 2007 |
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| Group Sues Interior Department Over Endangered Species List Decisions
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| A conservation group sued the Interior Department on Thursday seeking documents about decisions on endangered species the group alleges were tainted by political pressure from a former high-ranking Interior official.
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December 27, 2007 |
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| High hopes for EU shark proposals
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| A senior marine scientist has welcomed European Commission proposals for a shark conservation action plan.
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March 14, 2008 |
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| Japan drops humpback whale hunt
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| A controversial Japanese mission to hunt humpback whales in the Antarctic has been temporarily abandoned.
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December 21, 2007 |
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| Koalas under threat from toxic eucalyptus leaves
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| Koalas are threatened by the rising level of carbon dioxide pollution in the atmosphere because it saps nutrients from the eucalyptus leaves they feed on, a researcher said Wednesday.
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May 7, 2008 |
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| Koalas Under Threat From Climate Change
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| New research shows increased temperatures and carbon dioxide levels are a threat to the Australian national icon, the koala.
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May 9, 2008 |
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| Many Captive Tigers Are Of Purebred Ancestry; Finding Raises Their Conservation Value
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| Tigers held in captivity around the world--including those in zoos, circuses, and private homes--may hold considerable conservation value for the rapidly dwindling wild populations around the world, according to a new report published online on April 17th in Current Biology. Using a new method for assessing the genetic ancestry of tigers, researchers discovered that many apparently "generic" tigers actually represent purebred subspecies and harbor genomic diversity no longer found in nature.
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April 22, 2008 |
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| Newly discovered virus is killing off Bees
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| The new virus which is killing Bees is called Israeli acute paralysis virus, or IAPV.
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September 6, 2007 |
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| Rare cooperation to save gorillas
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| Three countries have come together for the first time, to try to save the mountain gorillas of central Africa.
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February 20, 2008 |
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| Rare Musk Ox May Be Threatened By Climate Change
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| The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) recently launched a four-year study to determine if climate change is affecting populations of a quintessential Arctic denizen: the rare musk ox. Along with collaborators from the National Park Service, U. S. Geological Survey, and Alaska Fish and Game, Wildlife Conservation Society researchers have already equipped six musk ox with GPS collars to better understand how climate change may affect these relics of the Pleistocene.
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April 27, 2008 |
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| Saving Endangered Sea Turtles
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| As all seven of the planet's species are under threat, the goal of the project is to demonstrate how public involvement in turtle conservation can have a bigger economic impact on local communities than traditional hunting.
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January 30, 2008 |
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| Scientists spot white killer whale off Alaska
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| The white killer whale spotted in Alaska's Aleutian Islands sent researchers and the ship's crew scrambling for their cameras
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March 7, 2008 |
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| Slight recovery for cod stocks
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| The number of young cod in the North Sea has shown a slight rise for the second year in a row.
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October 19, 2007 |
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| Student's camera snaps wolverine in California
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| A research project aimed at weasels has turned up a bigger prize: a picture of a wolverine, an elusive animal scientists feared may have been driven out of the Sierra Nevada long ago by human activity.
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March 10, 2008 |
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| Tiger Numbers Could Be Doubled In South Asia
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| Researchers at the Wildlife Conservation Society and other institutions declare that improvements in management of existing protected areas in South Asia could double the number of tigers currently existing in the region.
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November 6, 2007 |
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| Twice as many species at risk
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| The number of species on the endangered list in Britain has almost doubled in 13 years, according to a new study.
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June 7, 2007 |
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| US ordered to act on polar bear
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| A judge has told the US government to decide within weeks whether to list polar bears as an endangered species.
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April 29, 2008 |
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| Whaling battle moves to YouTube
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| The Australian government has launched an anti-whaling message aimed at Japanese children on video-sharing internet site YouTube.
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October 9, 2007 |
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| Whaling body to seek compromise
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| The International Whaling Commission (IWC) is due to open a meeting in London which aims to find common ground between pro- and anti-whaling nations.
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March 6, 2008 |
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| World's Rarest Gorilla Finds Sanctuary
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| The government of Cameroon--with guidance from the Wildlife Conservation Society--has created the world's first sanctuary exclusively for the Cross River gorilla, the world's rarest kind of great ape. The Kagwene Gorilla Sanctuary was officially created by decree of the Prime Minister of Cameroon Ephraim Inoni and was announced via state radio.
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April 22, 2008 |
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