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• in Film
  Colony Looks at the Disappearing Honeybee
  The only thing scarier than bees is no bees.
  by missbobetier / on Mar 24, 2011
• in Lifestyle
  Scientists Claim We're on Target for The Sixth Mass Extinction on Earth
  The Last One Wiped out the Dinosaurs (But it wasn't their fault.)
  by Kalavati / on Mar 5, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “extinction”

 

• Synthetic Generics: Self Induced Extinction Of The Human Race By 2150AD…It Has Already Begun…By Hank Curci, SCIF Author.

  
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  Extinction Of The Human Race Via Synthetic Generics .. It Has Already Begun ****** http://wp.me/pgw2I-69p ****** End Transmission
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• Could the Tasmanian tiger be hiding out in New Guinea?

  
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  Many people still believe the Tasmanian tiger ( Thylacinus cynocephalus ) survives in the wilds of Tasmania, even though the species was declared extinct over eighty years ago. Sightings and reports of the elusive carnivorous marsupial, which was the top predator on the island, pop-up almost as frequently as those of ...
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• Biosphere conservation: monumental action is critical to avert global environmental crisis

  
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  Human-caused changes to our biosphere—the global total of the worlds ecosystems—are now so great and alarmingly rapid that human lives and societies undoubtedly face epic challenges in the near future as our biosphere deteriorates, planetary boundaries are reached, and tipping points exceeded. We may survive, we ...
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• Chaotic Stupidity

  
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  Mundane day is back. And joyously! No noise pollution courtesy of the city parents, and the gym was delightfully sparse. The podcast was another episode of the CBC’s “Best of Ideas” series on secularity and it was quite good, finally getting around to the advancements in society being directly the result of ...
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• Don’t Believe the Numbers: Indian Tigers Still Face Extinction Threat

  
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  Experts warn that the Indian tiger, despite figures showing the population has stabilized, faces an increasing threat of extinction due to a lack of genetic diversity. Researchers from the UK’s Cardiff University, in collaboration with the National Centre for Biological Sciences in Bangalore, have issued a warning ...
  3 days ago

• Noise Pollution

  
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  Ice cream day and it is hoped to be less than yesterday. Last night was a horror, noise pollution from the nearby park, hours and hours of unwanted music of the most irritating form. Doubled my affection for folk. On a more positive note I ran across this article [ Link ] yesterday. At last a W8 tablet that I would ...
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• Perpetuation of the Species

  
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  Ice Cream Day! And I am still desensitizing my newly exposed roots after oral surgery, so no frozen yogurt for me. There is however a promise of absence of precipitation from the weather beavers this day which is the holy day of maternity. And they also fortell a last coolness of spring before the early onset of ...
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• Giant Leatherback Turtle — Black Sea Turtle Facts And Photos

  
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  The giant leatherback sea turtle, Dermochelys coriacea , is the biggest turtle species still in the world. They are a giant amongst most other modern reptiles, the only ones bigger are three of the remaining species of crocodilians. Image Credit: Leatherback via Shutterstock In addition to be very large, ...
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• Where Have You Gone, Rhodonessa caryophyllacea?

  
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  Extinction is sometimes more confusing than it looks. It is easy to tell when some species become extinct — a Martha or a Lonesome George dies and there are no more, not now, not ever (until science fiction kicks in.) But for species that didn’t meet their end in captivity, that were always rare, that lived in ...
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• Orangutans are victims of ‘sustainable’ palm oil as rainforest is razed – ‘All of the animals on the plantation are threatened. The company must therefore stop clearing the rainforest immediately.’

  
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  (Rainforest Rescue) – Perched atop the remains of the last tree, an orangutan looks helplessly on what was until recently the forest he was living in but is now only ruins. Armed with chainsaws and bulldozers, workers of Bumitama Gunajaya Agro (BGA), a palm oil company, have completely destroyed the rainforest for ...
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• Dozens of elephants slaughtered for ivory in Central African Republic – ‘The elephants here face a sure death as criminals obtain ivory’

  
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  10 May 2013 (mongabay.com) – Dozens of elephants have been slaughtered in the Dzanga Bai World Heritage Site in the Central African Republic just days after conservationists warned about an impending threat from the movement of 17 heavily armed poachers. The massacre occurred at a site renowned as "village of ...
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• Painted Turtles Face Unusual Danger Due To Climate...

  
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  Painted Turtles Face Unusual Danger Due To Climate Change  Climate change is impacting various animal species around the world, but Painted turtles may face a particularly strange and formidable challenge. Now, climate disruption affects different species in a variety of ways. And scientists at the Iowa State ...
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• Spoil the Moment

  
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  Yesterday I ran across this cartoon [ Link ] and I was struck by the accuracy of the presentation. It managed to summarize the television news so accurately I was whelmed. First that the news people seem to have no compunctions about decency, integrity, or honesty, to say nothing about their overt practices of ...
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• Honing In On What Makes Resident Evil Revelations Unique On Wii U

  
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  Capcom is getting much closer to the release of Resident Evil Revelations on the Nintendo Wii U and other consoles, including the Xbox 360 and Sony PS3. Resident Evil Revelations made its debut on the Nintendo 3DS not too long ago, and was met with critical acclaim as well as huge success in terms of retail sales.  ...
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• Ugly fish seeks soul mate at London Zoo

  
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  London Zoo is seeking a soul mate for an ugly fish that is likely to go extinct anytime soon. The species is called Mangarahara cichlid and it disappeared because its habitat dried up following the construction of dams at the Mangarahara River in Madagascar. The fish at London Zoo is a male, and the one that has ...
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• Discovery

  
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  Child proof packaging is dangerous – for ORFs!
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• Global Warming: We are halfway to a mass extinction event

  
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  If global warming approaches 3°C by the end of the century 21-52% of the species on Earth might become extinct. .
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• Tonle Sap Visit Finds Little Evidence of Once-Abundant Species

  
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  CIs Les Kaufman shares his latest thoughts from Cambodia.
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• Toy Fun

  
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  The sky is falling – again. Oh!, the joys of climate change and this period of wetness for the old Confederacy. At least it is fairly mild right now, or a few minutes ago when I assayed forth to seed the tree mammals and the dinosaur descendants. Not even rain coat intensity. I have begun the task of pruning tabs ...
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• Unicorns

  
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  Rhinoceros beetleChapter 21: Unicornpage 307: Unicorns horn was the Viagra of its day. Rhino horn is the "natural" Viagra of ours. In February it was reported that a rhinoceros has been killed every 11 minutes since the beginning of the year. In April the last 15 rhinos in a Mozambique park were killed by ...
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