Tag: Extinction - Page 5
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Grolar Bears Evolving Along Natural Selection Principles Due to Warming Climate
Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, was published on 24 November 1859, almost exactly150 years ago. This seminal book is widely considered to be a scientific landmark, in the way it changed humankind's
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Mules Instead of Tanks Used in Balkan Peace Keeping
We don't often write about using less cars and trucks in wars; somehow nature and the environment don't come up in those debates. But NATO is switching from using high-tech vehicles to mules in the Balkans because the
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Cheetah's Return in the Cards for India?
After widespread hunting of both the cheetah and its prey, along with the converting of grassland habitat to farmland, caused the big cat to disappear from India nearly a century ago, the world's
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7 Weird Endangered Species Only a Mother Could Love
When we pointed out some endangered species that are just so gosh-darn cute they'd give Knut a run for his magazine covers, we just couldn't shake the feeling that we were doing a disservice to all the rest of the world's
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Sam, The Australian Bushfire Koala Dies
Remember the devastating Australian bushfires earlier this year that wiped out a couple thousand homes, made over 7,000 folk homeless and killed 173 people? You might also recall the koala dubbed Sam, who became a symbol of hope in that tragic time.
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Caribbean Coral Reefs 'Flattened' Over the Past 40 Years
You know those underwater pictures of pretty branched coral rising up from reefs in the Caribbean? Well that lovely coral is all but gone. Not disappearing, gone—on more than
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The Best Protection Against Global Warming is Better Hurricane Insurance, says CEI
CEI, otherwise known as Competitive Enterprise Institute, has taken a bold stance against global warming and is recommending better risk-based insurance, stronger buildings, and improved
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Iceland is the Success Story of Sustainable Fishing
The soon-to-be-released documentary, The End of the Line, is about the terrible damage to the world's fishing stocks due to overfishing. But we do have one successful model of sustainable fishing: feisty little Iceland.
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Effects of Global Warming: What are They?
There's also a lack of understanding of the future effects that might occur if we wait any longer to act. The real
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Battle for Terra: Environmental Movie Not Just for Kids
Earthlings invade alien territory. In a switch from the standard "War of the Worlds" fear-mongering of Martian
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5 Natural Survival Tactics to Defend Against Terrorist Attack
Threat from weapons of mass destruction, espionage, high security among the worlds airlines... what do these all have in common? They are all worldwide adopted means to protect ourselves from the possibility of terrorist attack.
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When Nature Declares War for its Survival
When nature sets its mind to survive, it does so in a variety of means. Adaptation, however, is one of its primary weapons. Natures adaptability is all around us, whether we choose to take notice or not. If anything is going to see
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"Extinct" Bird Eaten by Mistake: Not an April Fools Joke
A Worcester’s Buttonquail was caught on camera for the first time by a French documentary team who were filming native bird trappers at work in the Philippines. No one realized how rare the bird was until it was identified as a Worcester’s Buttonquail
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Jargon Watch: Shifting Baselines
Collective memory is a fickle thing. We all know about the decimation of the American Bison, and the lost flocks of Passenger Pigeons a mile wide and 300 miles long. But, other less
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Northern Leopard Frog Threatened By Agrochemicals
It seems like frogs just can't catch a break. Scientists have been warning us about the global decline in amphibian populations for years. Habitat destruction, disease and chemicals are commonly cited as causes of
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95% of Emperor Penguins Could Be Dead by 2100 Because of Climate Change: New Report
Back in October of last year, WWF estimated that because of climate change penguin populations were going to face some serious declines: 50% of Emperor Penguins and 75% of Adelie Penguins could die if global temperatures
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Journalist Kayaks Texas Coast to Highlight Environmental Volatility
If you've ever wanted to explore a volatile ecosystem, to discover the ways humans are
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Cod Confusion: More Fishing, More Farming, the End of Baltic Cod?
Luckily, Christmas dinner is already over in Scandinavia (celebrated most often on the 24th) so those of us required to take a portion of stinky, slimy lutefisk, a dried and soaked cod, are safely past our obligations at the buffet-like Christmas
