Extinction

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• "Did he who cooked the Lamb cook thee?"

  
  MetaFilter — Authority: 711
  Chinas last tiger... has been eaten. Tiger poaching down -- because so few are left. A "humano-centric" view: Stuff the tiger– long live extinction . Coming soon to The Extinction Website .
  5 hours ago

• News at Gym

  
  Simple Country Physicist — Authority: 126
  The season seems to have taken a bit of a humorous turn. This morning at gym, in observing the structured photon flood from the monster monitors of the walls, I thought the advertised Three Stooges Marathon had started. Upon closer observation this was disproven since the channel in question was Reynard News and there ...
  6 hours ago

• Court Sentences Chinese Man to 12 Years for Killing Endangered Tiger

  
  Renewable Energy News Syndicator — Authority: 162
  A Chinese court has sentenced a man to 12 years in jail, plus a fine, for killing an endangered Indochinese tiger - which was made into a stew and eaten. The Mengla county court in Xishuangbanna has sentenced Kang Wannian to 12 years in jail, plus a fine of over $14,642 USD, for killing an endangered Indochinese ...
  14 hours ago

• Court Sentences Chinese Man to 12 Years for Killing Endangered Tiger

  
  Green Options — Authority: 148
  A Chinese court has sentenced a man to 12 years in jail, plus a fine, for killing an endangered Indochinese tiger - which was made into a stew and eaten. The Mengla county court in Xishuangbanna has sentenced Kang Wannian to 12 years in jail, plus a fine of over $14,642 USD, for killing an endangered Indochinese ...
  14 hours ago

• Science Looks for Plan B after Getting the Cold Shoulder at Warming Talks

  
  REALscience — Authority: 120
  Many scientists are disappointed after two weeks of climate change negotiations resulted in a toothless agreement that didn’t limit carbon dioxide, the main culprit of global warming. The new Copenhagen Accord (PDF) did not cut emissions as previously thought, dimming some hope that a global treaty would help ...
  14 hours ago

• Still use checks? Join the dinosaurs

  
  Money employment & careers - money-employment.marc8.com — Authority: 150
  Personal checks are heading quickly toward extinction as more businesses refuse to accept them and more consumers opt for electronic transactions.
  17 hours ago

• Connecting the Fifth Ape to the Sixth Mass Extinction

  
  Ecographica — Authority: 470
  Recent research conducted out of UC Berkeley and Penn State University has quantitatively demonstrated that mammal diversity in North America has plummeted since the arrival of humans about 13,000 years ago. The study ( Available at PLoS One ) examines changes in the number and variety of mammal species from several ...
  1 day ago

• Say What?

  
  Simple Country Physicist — Authority: 126
  Monday is when I listen to a podcast episode of CBC’s “The Best of Ideas” at gym and this morning the subject of the podcast, from a couple of months ago – packratting – was genetic screening. The format was a panel discussion of three medicalists. Two things came through loud and somewhat clear: Current ...
  1 day ago

• Health Care Reform and Other Late Night Sunday Links

  
  Gerry Canavan — Authority: 146
  * The health care bill has now cleared the first of three filibuster hurdles. Would-be bill-killers like Howard Dean are dialing back , with the new line being that there was never any such thing as a bill-killer in the first place . The other current  talking point is that the manager’s amendment magically ...
  1 day ago

• Spyker Makes Last Ditch Offer for Saab

  
  CarBuyersNoteBook — Authority: 516
  Just when you thought that Saab was all set to file for chapter 11, Spyker has reportedly dangled a new offer for the soon-to-be doomed Saab of General Motors. Spyker is the same Dutch company that GM last talked to and it looks like the company has made some revisions by removing the impasse that [...]
  1 day ago

• The ‘Madness’ of Copenhagen: El Watan, Algeria

  
  The Moderate Voice — Authority: 678
  The narrative on the Copenhagen climate summit coming out of the developing world might be summarized this way: on the one hand you have the destiny of the planet as a whole, and on the other, the capitalist financial system. Which is more important to save? The vast majority of comment in the third world finds the ...
  1 day ago

• 4 Northern White Rhinos Arrive Safely in Kenya from Czech Zoo!

  
  Renewable Energy News Syndicator — Authority: 162
  Four of the world’s only known eight Northern white rhinos have arrived in Kenya to begin new lives at Ol Pejeta Conservancy - the last hope to save this critically endangered rhino subspecies. Good news - and a sigh of relief! Sudan, Suni, Najin and Fatu have landed safely in Kenya after being flown from ZOO Dvůr ...
  2 days ago

• 4 Northern Rhinos Arrive Safely in Kenya from Czech Zoo!

  
  Renewable Energy News Syndicator — Authority: 162
  Four of the world’s only known Northern white rhinos have arrived in Kenya to begin new lives at Ol Pejeta Conservancy - the last hope to save this critically endangered rhino subspecies. Good news - and a sigh of relief! Sudan, Suni, Najin and Fatu have landed safely in Kenya after being flown from ZOO Dvůr ...
  2 days ago

• 4 Northern Rhinos Arrive Safely in Kenya from Czech Zoo!

  
  EcoWorldly — Authority: 515
  Four of the world’s only known Northern white rhinos have arrived in Kenya to begin new lives at Ol Pejeta Conservancy - the last hope to save this critically endangered rhino subspecies. Good news - and a sigh of relief! Sudan, Suni, Najin and Fatu have landed safely in Kenya after being flown from ZOO Dvůr ...
  2 days ago

• Copenhagen : Too Little, Too Late?

  
  Endangered Spaces blog — Authority: 119
  Time is Not on Our Side A new draft by the global climate change conference in Copenhagen has leaked to the press. The draft has been named the Copenhagen Accord . While any reference to the end of 2010 as a deadline for reaching a legally binding treaty was removed, a limit of a maximum two degree Celsius ...
  2 days ago

• kill the frog in extinction

  
  Fyrebug Make Your Own Game! — Authority: 478
  Educates not kill frogs in extinction
  2 days ago

• 350

  
  Lair of the Blue Bear — Authority: 411
  350.org Weve been duped! Way more!
  3 days ago

• Mammals, half way extinct??

  
  ZME Science — Authority: 124
  The previous 5 mass extinctions wiped out more than three quarters of the world’s animals, and if things continue to move in the same way , the same thing will happen in North America, according to a University of California, Berkeley , and Pennsylvania State University analysis. Numerous scientists have ...
  3 days ago

• Intelligence = Stupidity?

  
  Simple Country Physicist — Authority: 126
  This has not been a good week for blogging. Too much leading edge turbulence for the upcoming peak. Plus my annual ritual inspection of the teeth was this week and while the matter should have been of minor concern it was nonetheless disproportionately stressful. Somewhere along the way of our developing intelligence ...
  4 days ago

• Is another mass extinction of mammals on the way?

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 731
  Washington, Dec 18 (IANS) Thanks to global warming and ecological degradation, the sixth mass extinction is already on the way, equal to the “big five” that occurred over the past 450 million years, the last of which killed off dinosaurs, warn scientists.Yet, estimates of how dire the current loss of species is ...
  4 days ago

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