published January 17, 2011 and has No Comments
Image: Peter Blanchard via flickr As part of a lawsuit settlement, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service announced last week it would stop (illegally) planting genetically engineered crops on all its refuges in 12 states in the northeast, according to Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER).... Read the full story on TreeHugger
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published January 16, 2011 and has No Comments
The white-headed duck, seen here in a breeding program in England, is among the species of birds at risk in Turkey. Photo: Gidzy / Creative Commons . Dozens of starlings in the Karacabey district of Turkey's Bursa province were among the victims of a recent spate of mass ... Read the full story on TreeHugger
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published January 14, 2011 and has No Comments
The gray bay cats captured in the recent photos are even more rare than the red variety, seen here. Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons Almost everything scientists know about the Bornean bay cat is based on just 12 samples, the first of which was a skin collected in 1855 in Sarawak, Malaysia. In the several decades following this original discovery, ...
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published January 12, 2011 and has No Comments
Photo: Armin Gerlach Sure, they've had their differences in the past , but when times are tough even frogs and snakes can share in a little cold-blooded solidarity. Amid the devastating floods in Queensland, Australia, computer technician Armin Gerlach spotted an usual sight -- a frog riding atop the surface of the water on the back of a snake ...
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published January 12, 2011 and has No Comments
Photo: Ben Raines Many newly discovered species require a jeweler's loupe to appreciate -- but with this one, you might actually have to take a few steps backwards. Ten years ago, researchers stumbled across an incredible giant pink jellyfish in the Gulf of Mexico, with 70-foot-long tentacles capable of ensnaring dozens of victims at once. So remarkable was their ...
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published January 12, 2011 and has No Comments
Still missing: The La Selle grass frog. Photo credit: Robin Moore/iLCP One year after an earthquake devastated the country , a team of biologists have stumbled upon a clutch of amphibians that represent a new hope for Haiti's biodiversity. Scientists from Conservation International and the Amphibian Specialist Group of the IUCN have reported that six "lost" species of frogs ...
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published January 10, 2011 and has No Comments
Barilla pasta will switch 45 percent of the eggs it uses to cage-free by the end of the year, according to the Humane Society. Barilla is the world's largest pasta maker, and the transition will make it the first pasta company to join the growing cage-free movement.... Read the full story on TreeHugger
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published January 7, 2011 and has No Comments
Photo: RealGap A new study asserts that the epidemic of global species loss that we're experiencing right now is something of a self-fulfilling prophecy -- and that in order to turn the tide, we must focus on the conservation triumphs that have been made possible over the years. In order to stress the success of the conservation movement, the ...
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published January 7, 2011 and has No Comments
Photo: WWF We've all heard about the dire straits the planet's biodiversity is in. Species are going extinct at a rate so fast that some scientists have termed the phenomenon the anthropocene extinction (they named it after the cause of their accelerated demise: us). But we know that already. We know that we're killing species off so fast that ...
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published January 7, 2011 and has No Comments
photo: Andrew Currie / Creative Commons It may seem like all the recent mass bird deaths add up to catastrophic numbers of animals killed, but compared to how many birds are killed every year in ones and twos as they collide with buildings, towers, et cetera, it's a drop in the bucket.
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