Tag: Extinction - Page 3
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Earth Will be "Unrecognizable" by 2050
A lot has changed in the last 40 years, hasn't it? From the rise of personal computers and the Internet, to tubeless toilet-paper and carnivorous clocks -- the world today hardly resembles the one seen in faded photos of people with
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Island's Invasive "Killing Machine" Finally Captured
The tiny island of Kapiti, located five miles off the coast of Wellington, New Zealand, is one of the last refuges for a menagerie of wildlife driven to near-extinction elsewhere by invasive species. Since the late 1980s, when all
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Rare Amazon Tribe Nearly Extinct from Deforestation
It was the 'civilizing' spirit of colonialism which first drove the Awa-Guajá from their settlements along the eastern shore of Brazil and into the Amazon rainforest. There, under self-imposed isolation from a world that's changing so
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Bird Once Thought Extinct Now Found Nesting in U.S.
In the middle of the last century, things weren't looking good for the majestic Short-tailed Albatross. From a hardy population estimated to be in the millions just decades earlier, the bird's numbers underwent a
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Caroline Fraser on Rewilding the World (Podcast)
"Lose the animals, lose the ecosystems. Lose the ecosystems, game over." Caroline Fraser touched down in more than a dozen countries to understand what rewilding really means. Rewilding the World: Dispatches from the Conservation Revolution looks at how
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Would You Travel One-Way to Mars?
This week two scientists, Dirk Schulze-Makuch and Paul Davies, suggested in the Journal of Cosmology that it is time for humans to start colonizing Mars. Humanity needs some
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We're Killing Everything, Including Ourselves: Royal Society Sort of Says
In case the litany of separate studies showing how bad the ongoing extinction crisis the planet is undergoing, driven for all intents and purposes entirely by humans, really is haven't driven the point home: A new series
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Healing from Global Warming May Take 100,000 Years
When it comes to human-caused global warming, news of the long-term effects is mixed. On the one hand, the planet will indeed recover from the damage we've done -- the only downside is that it will take 100,000 years, and
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Is the Reported Murder of Britain's Largest Wild Animal a Scam?
The magnificent red deer stag known as the Emperor of Exmoor was shot and killed three weeks ago. This happened just a few days after his photograph appeared in national newspapers across the country. Who
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Thames Beats Out Amazon and Yellow River for Prize
The mighty Thames River, a mess in the 1950's, is back. It was declared biologically dead then and now it has won the esteemed International Thiess River Prize for good river management.
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A Dinosaur's Ancestor Walked Here...250 Million Years Ago
250 million years ago, a dinosaur,
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Bad News for Coral Reefs: Global Warming Causes Bleaching & Death
Image Credit: mattk1979 via Flickr Global warming has done a lot of damage this summer, from deadly flooding in Pakistan to the heat wave of the millennium in Russia. Now, the New York Times reports, there's another victim to add to the list: coral
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Monster Turtle Species That Survived 50,000 Years Lasted Just 200 Years After It Met Humans
Hollywood isn't the only place where people and prehistoric creatures met: Just 3,000 years ago (a relative blink of an eye), humans on
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Humans Must Leave Earth to Survive, Says Hawking
We've had a pretty good run with this old planet of ours, haven't we? Sure, she's a tad crowded and a little polluted. Okay, so she might be running a little hotter than she did before too, but we're getting by. One day, however, we may have to upgrade
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Saving the Earth by Shrinking Humans
If you have run out of controversial topics for dinner conversation, or websites to stumble upon, here's one for you. The Incredible Shrinking Man project researches and reviews the "implications of genetically
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Prehistoric Humans Caused Climate Changes, Too?
It's almost quaint to think that our ancient ancestors, living some 10,000 years ago, may have altered the planet's climate, just like us. Though unlike today, a time when our thirst of fossil fuels is heating up the planet, a new
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Wade Davis on What it Means to be Human and Alive
Photo credit: Ryan Hill Wade Davis might have the most amazing job on the planet. Trained as an anthropologist and ethnobotonist, he's lived among some of the most remarkable cultures of the world and been witness to (and participant in) many moments
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Single Rhino Male Seeks Mate to Save Species, NSA
Tam may be one of the most eligible bachelors on the planet right now, but still his friends are having a hard time finding him a date. He's just one of an estimated 10 to 30 Borneo rhinos left in the wild and it may be up to him to keep his species
