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Climate change endangers all life on EarthStop background music by clicking below Part 2 of President Obama's speech: And yet, we can reverse it. John F. Kennedy once observed that, “Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man.” It is true that for too many years, mankind has been slow to respond to or even ...
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New Data Shed Light on Large-Animal Extinction - NYTimes.comNew Data Shed Light on Large-Animal Extinction Whenever modern humans reached a new continent in the expansion from their African homeland 50,000 years ago, whether Australia, Europe or the Americas, all the large fauna quickly disappeared. This circumstantial evidence from the fossil ...
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Global Warming Could Reverse a Walrus Comeback - NYTimes.comWalruses Suffer Substantial Losses as Sea Ice Erodes Half a century after Pacific walruses began recovering from industrial-scale hunting, marine biologists are growing worried that they face a mounting threat from global warming . Masses of lumbering walruses have been crowding on ...
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Puerto Ayora Journal - Ecuador Limits Residence to Protect Galápagos - NYTimes.comEcuador Limits Residence to Protect Galápagos PUERTO AYORA, Galápagos Islands — The mounds of reeking garbage on the edge of this settlement 600 miles off Ecuador’s Pacific coast are proof that one species is thriving on the fragile archipelago whose unique wildlife inspired Darwin’s theory ...
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Stowaway mosquitoes threaten Galapagos wildlifeLand iguanas are seen at the Galapagos National Park on Santa Cruz Island September 15, 2008. Photograph by: Guillermo Granja, Reuters LONDON – The unique wildlife of the Galapagos Islands is under threat from disease-carrying mosquitoes arriving on board growing numbers of aircraft and ...
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Galapagos Islands Affected By Global Warming - Science News - redOrbitGalapagos Islands Affected By Global Warming The unique wildlife of the Galapagos Islands is being threatened by climate change, and scientists are seeking a way to protect its vulnerable species. The Galapagos wildlife was what helped Charles Darwin develop his thoughts on evolution about ...
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IUCN Red List of Threatened SpeciesThe IUCN Red List Categories, given below, are intended to be an easily and widely understood system for classifying species at high risk of global extinction. Extinct: the last remaining member of the species has died, or is presumed beyond reasonable doubt to have died. Examples: Dodo, ...
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Torquay archaeological dig reveals Ice Age artifacts : WCJBTorquay archaeological dig reveals Ice Age artifacts September 17, 2009 Teeth and bones belonging to Ice Age animals, such as hyenas, deer and woolly rhinos, have recently been found by scientists in a cave in Devon. The archaeological dig at Kents Cavern in Torquay, also yielded a ...
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White-nose Kills Hundreds Of Bats Near Abandoned Mines In PennsylvaniaWhite-nose Kills Hundreds Of Bats Near Abandoned Mines In Pennsylvania ScienceDaily (Feb. 15, 2009) — Several hundred little brown bats are dead from White-Nose Syndrome (WNS) in Lackawanna County, and the Pennsylvania Game Commission is looking to residents for help uncovering other sites ...
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Climate Change Wiped Out Cave Bears 13 Millennia Earlier Than ThoughtClimate Change Wiped Out Cave Bears 13 Millennia Earlier Than Thought ScienceDaily (Dec. 7, 2008) — Enormous cave bears, Ursus spelaeus, that once inhabited a large swathe of Europe, from Spain to the Urals, died out 27,800 years ago, around 13 millennia earlier than was previously believed, ...
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