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Original Technorati articles tagged “species”

• 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
• in Green
  Australia Waters Contain Most Unknown Living Species
  Imagine which country’s waters in the world are most biologically diverse in terms of living species. It is Australia’s.
  by jaideepkhanduja / on Aug 3, 2010

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “species”

 

• It represents a species in danger of being lost

  
  The Athens Times — Authority: 136
  {Title} may be tigers of southern China, as named by their nature, but living in South Africa since there found shelter and a chance to reproduce. Real News – RSS Environment
  13 hours ago

• Survey on African orphan crops

  
  Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog — Authority: 419
  Danny posted the following recently on the “Biodiversity for Food and Nutrition” Yahoo Group. I couldn’t find it anywhere else online, so he may have got it by email, I’m not sure. He did ask for it to be more widely disseminated, so here goes. We have mentioned the African Orphan Crop consortium here ...
  13 hours ago

• Nibbles: Chillies, Catfish, Blight, Beef, Svalbard, Biofortification, Agriculture and health book, Ahipa, GBIF, Pacific, Cassava and marriage, Amazon, Lost genebanks, Vietnamese food, Yoghurt

  
  Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog — Authority: 419
  Another use for chillies : keeping errant apes away. Catfish are the new tilapia. New fungicide-resistant strain of potato late blight found in UK. (How do they name these things?) The chickenization of the US beef industry , on NPR. Salutary. The Seed Warrior of Svalbard gets over-exposed. What ...
  14 hours ago

• Mass Effect 2 – Teaser Trailer

  
  New Game Trailers — Authority: 129
  Mass Effect 2 – Teasertrailer (HD resolution option enabled) Best quality game trailers! Watch in best quality on all YouTube – 360p,480p and HD 720p, and only in here in HD 1080p! Plot: After the events of the original game, Commander Shepard is killed in an ambush by a mysterious alien species called the ...
  1 day ago

• Who is your Hero?

  
  Techno-Guru - Latest Technology News India, Latest Breaking Bollywood News of India, Online Shopping — Authority: 133
  Heroes have been part of our psyche ever since humans started passing down learnings from one generation to another by telling stories. These guiding figures have helped us remember all that is commendable about us as a species. They are also someone whose example we try to follow in times of adversity or temptation. ...
  1 day ago

• A Green Revolution for trees

  
  Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog — Authority: 419
  Prof Roger Leakey , sometime of ICRAF (among other places), where he pioneered tree domestication in support of rural livelihoods, and now Vice Chairman of the International Tree Foundation , has a fascinating new book in the offing. In contrast to the doom and gloom often emanating from the tropics, ‘Living ...
  2 days ago

• Giant Python Hunt in the Everglades. By Geniusofdespair

  
  EYE ON MIAMI — Authority: 466
  Watch Monster Python on PBS. See more from Inside Natures Giants. Also awesome footage of the Everglades.
  3 days ago

• Science Sunday: How Giant Water Bugs Breathe

  
  The Dragonfly Woman — Authority: 105
  It’s the start of a new week and you know what that means: Science Sunday!  I thought I’d mix things up a little today by talking about some of my own research.  The subject of today’s post is this bug, a bug that should be quite familiar to my long-time regular (awesome!) readers: Giant water bug, Family ...
  3 days ago

• Mountain Yellow-legged Frogs Considered For Protections

  
  Natural History Wandering — Authority: 118
  The Bay Citizen reports that the California Fish and Game Commission will be considering endangered or threatened status for the Mountain Yellow-legged Frog. The frog’s population has decreased by over 90 percent as a result of fungus disease, a non-native trout, pollution  from the Central Valley, habitat loss, ...
  4 days ago

• LAKE ELMENTEITA BIRD COUNT

  
  Soysambu Conservancy — Authority: 85
  The January 2012 Water bird count for the Lake Elmenteita was carried out on the 21st as from 6: 00 am.The turn up for the volunteers was good over two hundred Volunteers Participated and fourteen groups were formed.Each group was assigned a portion of the Lake, and everything was fine. The wetland bird species for ...
  4 days ago

• Endangered Species of the Week: American burying beetle

  
  Greenfudge.org - Climate Change, Ecology, Nature, Environment, Controversial issues, Politics, Non Profit, Human Rights, Preservation — Authority: 113
  Image courtesy of ARKive.org Image courtesy of ARKive.org Species: American burying beetle ( Nicrophorus americanus ) Status: Critically Endangered (CR) Interesting Fact: The American burying beetle buries a whole carcass to feed its young! The largest carrion beetle in North America, the American ...
  4 days ago

• Newt Gingrich’s animal attraction resurfaces

  
  The Washington Post — Authority: 635
  Seems some anti-Gingrich Republicans are citing enviros, of all people, to skewer the former House speaker as not being a true conservative. They’ve dug up a 1999 article in the Environmental Forum by Michael J. Bean , formerly of the Environmental Defense Fund and now counselor to the assistant secretary for ...
  5 days ago

• Feds back off Silver King Creek poisoning plan

  
  Moldy Chum — Authority: 471
  Federal attorneys withdrew a challenge to a judge’s ruling against plans to restore one of America’s rarest trout by poisoning a remote Sierra stream, a move conservationists are calling a victory but which federal officials characterize as but another development in a lengthy dispute over a project they still ...
  5 days ago

• Were dogs domesticated 33,000 years ago?

  
  ohmidog! — Authority: 418
  A dog skull unearthed in a cave in the Altai Mountains of Siberia is believed to be 33,000 years old. If so, it represents some of the oldest known evidence of dog domestication,  according to a recent study in the online journal PloS One. The Siberian skull, along with equally ancient dog remains found in a [...]
  6 days ago

• Nibbles: AnGR genomic resources, Agroforestry fund, US climate map, Cassava rules

  
  Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog — Authority: 419
  Big new project on farm animal genomics . Gene-jockeys lick lips. Big new push to raise money for the Moringa Fund . Agroforesters lick lips. Big new hardiness zone map unleashed by USDA on unsuspecting world. American GIS people and gardeners lick lips. Bill Gates mentions cassava . CIAT licks lips.
  6 days ago

• Nibbles: Canis then and now, Training roundup, Soybean genome, Top 10 viruses, PNG drought, Food archaeology, Sturgeon Bay

  
  Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog — Authority: 419
  Dogs were first domesticated animal . But the love affair is cooling off, at least for some breeds . Building capacity for animal genetic resources use , and for conservation and sustainable use under the ITPGRFA . And tree domestication . Is someone keeping track? BGI continues to take over DNA world. And ...
  1 week ago

• Dogs were man’s best friend even 33,000 years ago

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 533
  Washington, Jan 24 (IANS) A dog’s skull, which had lain in a Siberian cave for 33,000 years, presents the oldest evidence of domestication of the canine.The latest find comes after a dog’s skull was found in Belgium and shows that man’s best friends may have originated from more than one ancient ancestor, ...
  1 week ago

• Farmers and crofters offered free RSPB farmland bird survey

  
  For Argyll — Authority: 124
  As RSPB Scotland’s Volunteer & Farmer Alliance project celebrates its 10th anniversary, it is inviting  farmers and crofters to learn more about what birds are on their land. They will provide a free, confidential, no-strings attached survey. For the past decade, in Scotland, the Volunteer & Farmer ...
  1 week ago

• Sumatran elephants listed as ‘critically endangered’ species

  
  4unews — Authority: 147
  JAKARTA, Indonesia – A research carried out by the International Union for Conservation of Nature claims that the Sumatran elephant could be extinct in the wild within three decades. Environmentalists listed the species as “critically endangered” after their numbers dropped to between 2,400 and 2,800 from an ...
  1 week ago

• Bulbophyllum contortisepalum

  
  Landscape Now! — Authority: 85
  Bulbophyllum contortisepalum J.J.SM. 1912  Section: Hoplandra Geographic Distribution: Papua New Guinea. Elevation/ Temperature: sea level- 1000 m lowland/ hot growing species. Plant Type: epiphytic. Growing Habit: sympodial ...
  1 week ago

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