Extinction

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Protest
Photos from kids’ climate change protests: passion and Uranus jokes
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LONDON, Feb 15 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Saying adults were not doing enough to deal with increasingly serious threats from climate change, …
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Wildlife Trade
Delays in banning wildlife trade put hundreds of species at risk
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From parrots to lizards, hundreds of animal species could be at risk of extinction because of a policy process that responds slowly to scientific …
Australian Universities
Native turtles face extinction in South Australia: New report
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Eastern Long Neck Turtle encrusted by a marine tubeworm during the 2008-2011 drought in South Australia. Photo Credit: Deanne Smith (Alexandrina …
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Biological Species
Newly discovered turtle species is facing extinction
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A new species in the family of Softshell Turtles is described from Northern Vietnam and China by a Hungarian-Vietnamese-German team of researchers. …
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Archaeology
Scientists look to past to help identify fish threatened with local extinction
sciencedaily.com - Wildlife Conservation Society
Marine scientists have developed a methodology to assess fish stocks that combines new data with archeological and historical records - some dating …
BBC News
Brexit
No deal Brexit: 'Food businesses facing extinction'
BBC News - BBC World
Food businesses could be facing "extinction" from the impact of a no deal Brexit, the Food and Drink Federation has warned. CEO Ian Wright told Today a disruptive no deal Brexit is "the biggest threat
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The World's Oldest Known Bird Is Almost 70, But Don't Let That Stop Her
ScienceAlert - JACINTA BOWLER
Wisdom, a Laysan albatross (Phoebastria immutabilis) who is at least 68 years old, has done it again – she's hatched a new chick at her nesting …
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Habitats
Why the pine marten is not every red squirrel's best friend
The Conversation UK - Craig Shuttleworth and Matt Hayward
Pine martens are returning to areas of the UK after an absence of nearly a century. Following releases in mid-Wales during 2015, reintroductions are …
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Fish
Bernhardt, former Westlands lawyer, working to strip Delta Smelt protection as fish nears extinction
dailykos.com - Dan Bacher
Whitefish, MT — As the Delta smelt moves closer to the abyss of extinction, Interior Deputy Secretary David Bernhardt, President Trump’s nominee for …
Penguins
Ancient DNA reveals lost penguin species
artdaily.com - Ignacio Villarreal
GREENWICH, CONN.- The raft of penguin species that once frolicked in the southern seas has grown, thanks to some modern sleuthing by DNA-tracking …
Economics
Will insects go instinct?
marginalrevolution.com - Tyler Cowen
No, probably not, no matter what you might have read or seen on Twitter. The underlying paper is “Worldwide decline of the entomofauna: A review of …
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Massive insect decline could have 'catastrophic' environmental impact, study says
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(CNN) — Insect populations are declining precipitously worldwide due to pesticide use and other factors, with a potentially "catastrophic" effect on the planet, a study has warned. More than 40% of insect
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University of Florida
How do sea snakes in salt water get a drink?
futurity.org - Rachel Wayne-Florida
New research solves the mystery of how sea snakes, who live surrounded by salty ocean water, stay hydrated. Previously, scientists thought that sea …
Peter Thiel
Climate change denial not about the science
newsroom.co.nz - Sam Sachdeva
Futurelearning Climate change is a direct challenge to the philosophy of neo-liberalism that has made a very small group of people exceedingly rich, …
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List-Worthy
10 Obscure But Amazing Episodes From Earth’s Mass Extinctions
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Earth has suffered five big extinctions and innumerable little ones. A potential sixth mass extinction, the only one created by the planet’s own …
National Academy of Sciences
Palaeogenomics of the Hydrocarbon Producing Microalga <i>Botryococcus braunii</i>
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1. Kützing, F. T. Species algarum. 1–922 (F. A. Brockhaus, 1849). 2. Senousy, H. H., Beakes, G. W. & Hack, E. Phylogenetic placement of Botryococcus …
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Puerto Rico
Insects are going extinct eight times faster than other animals
boingboing.net - Mark Frauenfelder
“Unless we change our ways of producing food, insects as a whole will go down the path of extinction in a few decades,” says a study published in the …
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Zoology
On the land, one-quarter of vertebrates die because of humans
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Humans have a "disproportionately huge effect" on the other species of vertebrates that share Earth's surface with us, causing more than 25 percent …
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New Zealand News
SPCA changes stance on 1080: 'Not anti-pest control' but must be humane
nzherald.co.nz - Meghan Lawrence
The SPCA has changed its stance on the use of 1080, only a month after it called for a ban on the pest-control poison. Last month, the charity said it …
Population
Study Warns of Insect Armageddon
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A troubling new study warns that the world's insect population is rapidly declining and the entire planet could be in peril as a result. The …
The Guardian
Urban Agriculture
On rooftops and in tunnels, city farms lead food revolution
The Guardian - James Tapper
Only the Northern line tube trains rumbling through tunnels overhead provide any clue that Growing Underground is not a standard farm. The rows of fennel, purple radish and wasabi shoots could be in almost
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Book Reviews
Book review: Poached: Inside the Dark World of Wildlife Trafficking, by Rachel Love Nuwer
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I put off reading Poached for a long time and I didn’t have to. I should have read it earlier. A book on animal trade by a New York Times and National …
Deploying AI algorithms in the fight against human-caused extinctions | Articles | Big Data
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Last year, the WWF released one of the most shocking statistics of all-time: Humanity has wiped out 60% of the world's mammals, birds, fish and …
Marine Mammals
Sea Shepherd Urges U.S. to Act on Dolphin Near Extinction
maritime-executive.com - By MarEx 2019-02-06 18:15:17
Sea Shepherd has called on the Trump administration to take action to prevent New Zealand’s M?ui dolphin from follow the same population decline as …
Popular Science
Environment
We are eating large animals into extinction
Popular Science - By Marlene Cimons
"Humans have a long history of killing large animals, and it dates back thousands of years." Large animals once roamed the Earth, but most of them didn’t last. By the end of the Pleistocene, nearly 12,000
Bustle
Green New Deal
7 Climate Change Statistics That Are Honestly Terrifying
Bustle - Monica Hunter-Hart
NASA outlined a grim picture of just how much the world warmed last year in new data released on Wednesday. Though terrifying, the analysis also …
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Liberal View
Imagine Being Homeless During the Polar Vortex
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It was noon one recent Saturday in Northern Michigan, and temperatures were 30 degrees below 0.Winter storm warnings were blaring about the necessity …
Memphis, TN
Humans may be killing off Earth’s largest animals, study says
wmcactionnews5.com - February 6, 2019 at 9:28 PM CST - Updated February 6 at 9:33 PM
(CNN) – Researchers say humans may be eating the world’s largest animals to extinction. A study published Wednesday in the journal Conservation …
The Guardian
University of Maryland
The killing of large species is pushing them towards extinction, study finds
The Guardian - Oliver Milman
The vast majority of the world’s largest species are being pushed towards extinction, with the killing of the heftiest animals for meat and body parts the leading cause of decline, according to a new While
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Environment
Meat-eating humans pushing hundreds of planet’s biggest animals toward extinction
independent.co.uk - Josh Gabbatiss
Humanity’s insatiable appetite for meat is pushing large creatures like elephants and giant salamanders towards extinction, according to a new …