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US authorities close campsites amid beetle fears Salmon, Idaho (AFP) May 5, 2008 
A small beetle wreaking havoc on forests in the western United States has prompted authorities to shut down a host of campgrounds for the summer amid fears that ravaged trees could topple over. Officials have closed 21 campsites in northern Colorado and southeastern Wyoming because of the hazards posed by the handiwork of the bark beetle, which is killing a record number of conifers across ... read more |
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Tropical insects risk extinction with global warming: study
Washington (AFP) May 5, 2008Global warming could pose a greater risk to tropical insects and other species sensitive to the slightest shifts in temperature than to creatures living in the world's tundra, US scientists warned Monday. While cold weather animals are used to huge temperature changes, tropical species live under a much smaller temperature range and face a bigger risk of extinction with an increase of just ... more Asian vultures may face extinction in India, study warns 
New Delhi (AFP) May 4, 2008Asian vultures may face extinction in India unless a farm drug responsible for their large-scale decimation is banned outright, according to a report Sunday citing researchers. The population of the oriental white-backed vulture has declined by 99.9 percent and the numbers of two other highly-endangered species by 97 percent since 1992 in India, a story in the Hindu newspaper said citing a ... more Dwarf Cloud Rat Rediscovered After 112 Years 
Chicago IL (SPX) May 05, 2008A team of Filipino and American scientists have rediscovered a highly distinctive mammal ¨C a greater dwarf cloud rat ¨C 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. The greater dwarf cloud rat (Carpomys melanurus) has dense, soft reddish-brown fur, a black mask around large dark eyes, small ... more International Team Of Researchers Explain How Birds Navigate 
Tempe AZ (SPX) May 02, 2008It has long been known that birds and many other animals including turtles, salamanders and lobsters, use the Earth's magnetic field to navigate, but the nature of their global positioning systems (GPS) has not been completely understood. One school of thought hypothesizes that birds use magnetically-sensitive chemical reactions initiated by light (called chemical magnetoreception) to ... more Ancient Ecosystems Organized Much Like Our Own 
Washington DC (SPX) May 01, 2008Similarities between half-billion-year-old and recent food webs point to deep principles underpinning the structure of ecological relationships, as shown by researchers from the Santa Fe Institute, Microsoft Research Cambridge and elsewhere It was an Anomalocaris-eat-trilobite world, filled with species like nothing on today's Earth. But the ecology of Cambrian communities was remarkably modern ... more |
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Berkeley CA (SPX) Apr 29, 2008Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, and the Berkeley Geochronology Center have pinpointed the date of the dinosaurs' extinction more precisely than ever thanks to refinements to a common technique for dating rocks and fossils. The argon-argon dating method has been widely used to determine the age of rocks, whether they're thousands or billions of years old. ... more Illuminating Life 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Apr 29, 2008Professor Vitaly Vodyanoy and research assistant Oleg Pustovyy of the AU Department of Anatomy, Physiology and Pharmacology built the patent-pending Ilumna 120 to help NASA scientists observe microscopic life in areas where there is no electricity. The new technology could help researchers study microbes living in some of the most extreme environments on Earth. NASA used it on a preliminary ... more World's Rarest Gorilla Finds Sanctuary 
Bronx NY (SPX) Apr 28, 2008The 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. "The creation of this sanctuary is the fruit of ... more Scientists say polar bears at risk, but threat not imminent 
Ottawa (AFP) April 25, 2008A scientific panel Friday urged Canada to act to safeguard the Canadian polar bear, which it recommended designating as a species "of special concern" but not one imminently threatened with extinction. The Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (COSEWIC) "has reassessed the polar bear as a species of special concern ... a species at risk in Canada ... (and) in trouble," ... more Beetles may doom Canada's carbon reduction target: study 
Paris (AFP) April 23, 2008Pine beetles that have already destroyed huge swathes of Canadian forest are on pace to release 270 megatonnes of carbon dioxide (C02) into the atmosphere by 2020, says a study released Wednesday. That is the same amount of greenhouse gas emissions that Canada is committed to reducing by 2012 under the Kyoto Protocol, and would effectively doom that effort to failure, the study says. ... more |
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Woods Hole MA (SPX) Apr 22, 2008Most of us are familiar with bar codes, those small black stripes with numbers below, known as the Universal Product Code or UPC label, that appear on commercial products. We scan them at the grocery store or to check a price, or have to cut them out and send them in for a rebate. Now imagine scanning a DNA barcode on the piece of fish you just bought for dinner to instantly verify the ... more Extinct Elephant May Have Been Found Again - On A Different Island 
Washington DC (SPX) Apr 21, 2008The Borneo pygmy elephant may not be native to the island of Borneo after all. Instead, the population could be the last survivors of the Javan elephant race - accidentally saved from extinction by the Sultan of Sulu centuries ago, suggests an article co-authored by World Wildlife Fund (WWF). The origins of the pygmy elephants, found only on the northeast tip of the island in part of the ... more Slowly-Developing Primates Definitely Not Dim-Witted 
Durham NC (SPX) Apr 21, 2008Some primates have evolved big brains because their extra brainpower helps them live and reproduce longer, an advantage that outweighs the demands of extra years of growth and development they spend reaching adulthood, anthropologists from Duke University and the University of Zurich have concluded in a new study. The four investigators compared key benchmarks in the development of 28 ... more Barbary monkeys going ape on Gibraltar 
Madrid (UPI) Apr 21, 2008Veterinarians are trying to track down 25 Barbary monkeys that are allegedly terrorizing tourists on Gibraltar. Britain's' Daily Telegraph said the pack of macaques has broken into hotel rooms and was spotted scavenging in garbage bins in the center of town. The monkeys are to be killed by lethal injection, the newspaper said. "Children are frightened. People cannot leave ... more Deep-Sea Sharks Wired For Sound 
Canberra, Australia (SPX) Apr 18, 2008Deep-sea sharks have been tagged and tracked and their habitats precisely mapped in world-first research to test the conservation value of areas closed to commercial fishing. Last month scientists from the CSIRO Wealth from Oceans National Research Flagship fitted acoustic tags to 50 gulper sharks, swellsharks and green eye dogfish near Port Lincoln, South Australia. They will track the ... more
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