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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”

 

• A Green Revolution for trees

  
  Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog — Authority: 116
  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 ...
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• Giant Python Hunt in the Everglades. By Geniusofdespair

  
  EYE ON MIAMI — Authority: 467
  Watch Monster Python on PBS. See more from Inside Natures Giants. Also awesome footage of the Everglades.
  1 day ago

• Science Sunday: How Giant Water Bugs Breathe

  
  The Dragonfly Woman — Authority: 106
  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 ...
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• 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, ...
  2 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 ...
  2 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: 112
  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 ...
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• Newt Gingrich’s animal attraction resurfaces

  
  The Washington Post — Authority: 627
  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 ...
  3 days ago

• Feds back off Silver King Creek poisoning plan

  
  Moldy Chum — Authority: 472
  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 ...
  3 days ago

• Were dogs domesticated 33,000 years ago?

  
  ohmidog! — Authority: 417
  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 [...]
  4 days ago

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

  
  Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog — Authority: 116
  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.
  4 days ago

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

  
  Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog — Authority: 116
  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 ...
  5 days ago

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

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 534
  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, ...
  6 days 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 ...
  6 days ago

• Sumatran elephants listed as ‘critically endangered’ species

  
  4unews — Authority: 146
  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 ...
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• 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 ...
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• Aponogeton ulvaceus

  
  Aquarium Plants - Barr Report — Authority: 122
  Hey guys My aponogeton ulvaceus is huge as in the leaves are too long. The stalk/stem is 70cm alone plus the leaf. Is there any way to shorten them?
  1 week ago

• To Tend Mother Earth. A Lyric

  
  Call For Media and Government Investigation — Authority: 94
  In my blog of last Thursday, I observed that: “I have just returned from a forum, hearing from some of the top environmentalist scientists in the world that the vast ecological troubles threatening the planet are not the concoctions of crack-brain doomsayers. They are very real. Blinded by narrow economic ...
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• West Coast: New marine habitat to protect leatherback sea turtle

  
  Global Adventures, LLC — Authority: 404
  Pacific Ocean (global-adventures.us): A new marine habitat in the Pacific Ocean off the coasts of California, Oregon and Washington has been designated to protect endangered leatherback sea turtles. The 41,914 square miles area along the West Coast is the largest protected area ever established in American waters. ...
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• Leopard strikes again in Guwahati

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 534
  Guwahati, Jan 20 (IANS) A stray leopard created panic in Assam’s main city here Friday by injuring three people in the second incident of its kind in less than two weeks.The leopard strayed into Pandu area on the foothills of Nilachal Hills, Divisional Forest Officer S.K. Seal Sarma told IANS.“We have sent a [...]
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• Biodiversity crisis overshadows climate changes

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 534
  London, Jan 20 (IANS) The challenges of conserving the world’s species against their rapid decline are perhaps even larger than mitigating the negative effects of global climate change, scientists said.Dealing with the biodiversity crisis requires political will and needs to be based on a solid scientific ...
  1 week ago

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