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• Setting Boundaries: 10 Guidelines to Save Earth

  
  Innovation Toronto — Authority: 142
  Image via Wikipedia Scientists propose a set of safe limits for human impacts on Earth The scale of humanity’s impact on the globe is becoming ever more apparent: we have wiped out species at a rate to rival great extinction events of all geologic time as well as contributing to a rapidly acidifying ocean, ...
  9 hours ago

• Climate change causing irreversible acidification in worlds oceans

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 143
  A new study from the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity has synthesized over 300 reports on ocean acidification caused by climate change. The report finds that increasing ocean acidification in the oceans will lead to irreversible damage in the worlds oceans, creating a less biodiverse marine ...
  12 hours ago

• NorAm Megafauna Held Out For Past 13k Years Ago

  
  The Dragon's Tales — Authority: 131
  Woolly mammoths and prehistoric horses grazed on the North American plains for several thousand years longer than hitherto assumed This is shown by samples of ancient DNA, analysed by an international team of research scientists under the leadership of Professor Eske Willerslev from Copenhagen University. Analyses of ...
  15 hours ago

• Photos: ten beloved species threatened by global warming

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 143
  The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has released a list of ten species that are likely to be among the hardest hit by climate change, including beloved species such as the leatherback sea turtle, the koala, the emperor penguin, the clownfish, and the beluga whale. The timing of the list ...
  17 hours ago

• Flying rock skepticism

  
  john hawks weblog — Authority: 468
  Anthropology.net reports on new work by François Paquay and colleagues that casts more doubt on the Younger Dryas impact event ( "The Clovis comet that wasnt? Mystery deepens" ). I wrote about another paper by Todd Surovell and colleagues earlier this fall ( "The Younger Dryas impact fizzle?" ). Why am I ...
  20 hours ago

• Yahoo! Site Map -an useful internet marketing tool

  
  IM Product Reviews — Authority: 129
  A website refers to a compilation of Web pages that can be typically accessed through a software package, commonly known as  a Web browser (one example is the HTTP on the Internet). These pages, which are essentially documents that are in the HTML or XHTML format (HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language), are ...
  1 day ago

• Yahoo! Site Map -an useful internet marketing tool

  
  Online Business — Authority: 138
  A website refers to a compilation of Web pages that can be typically accessed through a software package, commonly known as  a Web browser (one example is the HTTP on the Internet). These pages, which are essentially documents that are in the HTML or XHTML format (HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language), are ...
  1 day ago

• 45 Species of Galapagos Islands Extinct or Facing Extinction due to Overfishing and Climate Change

  
  Cooler Choice — Authority: 151
  A new report published in the journal Global Change Biology shows that 45 species of the Galapagos Islands have become extinct or are facing extinction largely due to human activities. The main causes are the 1982 El Nino and overfishing. The results show the great vulnerability of this diverse area to significant ...
  1 day ago

• 45 Species of Galapagos Islands Extinct or Facing Extinction due to Overfishing and Climate Change

  
  EcoWorldly — Authority: 526
  A new report published in the journal Global Change Biology shows that 45 species of the Galapagos Islands have become extinct or are facing extinction largely due to human activities. The main causes are the 1982 El Nino and overfishing. The results show the great vulnerability of this diverse area to significant ...
  1 day ago

• 45 Species of Galapagos Islands Extinct or Facing Extinction due to Overfishing and Climate Change

  
  Renewable Energy News Syndicator — Authority: 162
  A new report published in the journal Global Change Biology shows that 45 species of the Galapagos Islands have become extinct or are facing extinction largely due to human activities. The main causes are the 1982 El Nino and overfishing. The results show the great vulnerability of this diverse area to significant ...
  1 day ago

• What Happened to the Dinosaurs?

  
  Veritas Nihilum Vincet — Authority: 127
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  2 days ago

• Medea Hypothesis Part 7: Wards Summation

  
  The Dragon's Tales — Authority: 131
  Introduction This is the final post summarizing the Medea Hypothesis. Rather than doing my own summation of Ward’s Summation. I will quote the important points. It’s about a page and a half, so it will be quick. The previous posts are here , here , here , here , here , and here . Ward’s Own ...
  2 days ago

• Unilever suspends palm oil contract after supplier found to be destroying rainforests

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 143
  The worlds largest user of palm oil, Unilever, has suspended its $32.6 million contract with the Indonesian group Sinar Mas after an independent audit proved that Sinar Mas is involved in the destruction of rainforest, reports Reuters. The audit was conducted early this year after a report by Greenpeace alleged that ...
  3 days ago

• The North American Jaguar Needs Your Help

  
  Old Uncle Dave — Authority: 417
  Click pic to sign petition and, if you can spare it, make a donation. Extinction is forever.
  3 days ago

• Tiger Woods Growing Thin

  
  Irregular Times: News Unfit for Print — Authority: 486
  While people around the world have been snapping up stories about the sex life of a professional golfer, a man who has decided to devote his life to hitting balls with sticks, stories about the real tiger woods have gone virtually unnoticed. At the end of the Thanksgiving break, when Tiger Woods got into a car ...
  4 days ago

• PageRank In Biological Systems

  
  /Message — Authority: 136
  [via MALIA WOLLAN The Ninth Annual Year in Ideas] Every species — be it earthworm or great white shark — is entwined in a vast and complicated system of predator and prey called a food web. To determine which species in a food web are most important to the survival of the larger ecosystem, scientists ...
  4 days ago

• Only 8 Northern White Rhinos Still Survive As Controversy Brews Among Rhino Experts

  
  EcoWorldly — Authority: 526
  Rhino experts are divided in potential plans to salvage the genes of the world’s last eight northern white rhinos. Now believed extinct in the wild, the world’s only surviving northern white rhinos are currently in captivity in just two locations: ZOO Dvůr Králové in the Czech Republic and San Diego Zoo’s ...
  4 days ago

• No Evidence of Impact at Onset of Younger Dryas

  
  The Dragon's Tales — Authority: 131
  An international team of scientists led by researchers at the University of Hawaii at Manoa has found no evidence supporting an extraterrestrial impact event at the onset of the Younger Dryas approximately 13,000 years ago. The Younger Dryas is an abrupt cooling event in Earths history. It coincided with the ...
  4 days ago

• Brain Study: New Methods for Treating Phobias

  
  Through Your Body: — Authority: 125
  Brain Study: New Treatment for Phobias Study Suggests Methods and Timing to Treat Fears By BENEDICT CAREY A new study suggests that doctors can take advantage of the brain’s natural updating process — the way it might soften its impression of, say, pit bulls after seeing a playful one — to treat phobias , ...
  4 days ago

• Man or Mold?

  
  Simple Country Physicist — Authority: 125
  In the lees of Tuesday’s mumblings about ‘literacy’, [Link] I happened to listen to a Future Tense podcast on computer literacy, [Link] that led me finally to this web page, [Link] which is an article by a journalist on computer literacy – computate in my terminology. As is almost always the case with ...
  5 days ago

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