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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “species”

• Why Do Animals, Especially Males, Have So Many Different Colors?

  
  Science nature & education - science-nature.marc8.com — Authority: 153
  Why do so many animal species -- including fish, birds and insects -- display such rich diversity in coloration and other traits? New research offers an answer.
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• Scottish Tax Payers ‘Pay-into’ Norwegian Owned Fish Farm Profits

  
  For Argyll — Authority: 144
  Investigations into the shot seal incident, reported by a family of four holidaying on the west coast and covered by ForArgyll, has revealed some interesting facts. One of which is that every tax payer in Argyll, indeed Scotland, is actually helping to boost fish farm profits - that’s fish farms owned [...]
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• You can do anything, but stay off of my Darwin!

  
  Collecting My Thoughts — Authority: 446
  Ray Comfort and actor Kirk Cameron plan to give away 100,000 copies of a special edition of Charles Darwins "Origin of Species" on 100 university campuses for the 150th anniversary of the book. Their book challenges the theory of evolution with a 50-page introduction that includes an overview of Darwins life and ...
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• Jack Longino unveils the new 2009 line of Pheidole species

  
  Myrmecos Blog — Authority: 424
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• Thousands of species adapt to extreme conditions of Llano Estacado

  
  Texas Tech Today — Authority: 444
  The Llano Estacado is an amazing place. Thousands of species of plants and animals are adapted to extreme conditions of drought, wind, heat and the cold of winter. The wildlife intensely celebrates the irregular rains with phenomenal fecundity. The Llano Estacado has eight major habitats. Specific species are ...
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• Endangered Mississippi Sandhill Cranes get a boost

  
  Animal News: Animal Planet — Authority: 421
  Three endangered Mississippi sandhill cranes Credit US Fish & Wildlife Service Starting at the crack of dawn Friday, November 6th, some 25 to 30 volunteers hid in blinds throughout the Mississippi Sandhill Crane National Wildlife Refuge s wetland pine savanna to count and identify individuals by looking for ...
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• Restricting An Endangered List

  
  Thinking Outside — Authority: 131
  The most recent Bush Administration’s record on identifying and protecting endangered species was pretty dismal, only 62 species were listed in the eight years of Bush’s term. That contrasts with the previous two administrations, Clinton and George H.W. Bush, each of whom added about that many species to the list ...
  13 hours ago

• 15,000 reasons to worry about invasive species

  
  Alan Gregory's Conservation News — Authority: 125
  Ouch. It hurts just to read this feature
  14 hours ago

• two brothers and the blue fin tuna

  
  ken wilson online — Authority: 103
  Why should human beings care about whether the population of blue fin tuna is decimated by overfishing?   Its pretty unusual in the realm of living things for one species to care about the fortunes of another, even though we live in a delicate balance of competition and cooperation with all other living things.  ...
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• Cool Green Morning: Monday, November 9

  
  Cool Green Science: The Conservation Blog of The Nature Conservancy — Authority: 534
  That’s not lice causing that scratching on your head (at least, we hope not) — it’s just a lot of head scratchers in today’s hot green news roundup . Stop the itch of curiosity right here! Now here’s a question that’s been keeping millions up at night! Which is greener: Going into the refrigerator ...
  15 hours ago

• Feral Pigs Invading Allegany State Park

  
  New York Outdoors Blog — Authority: 138
  by Gary Borek via the FLT email list: The DEC has confirmed that feral pigs (wild boar) are invading Allegany State Park. Park Manager Brad Whitcomb is concerned wild hogs could gain a foothold in the park and damage the local ecosystem the way they have in parts of the South. “When they go to the wild they ...
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• Obama Behind Bush On Endangered Species

  
  Irregular Times: News Unfit for Print — Authority: 515
  One of the central pledges of the 2008 Obama presidential campaign was that the United States would finally take its global environmental responsibilities seriously, and confront the growing problems associated with climate change. What we’ve actually seen from the Obama presidency, however, has not yet matched the ...
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• Saving the worlds rarest wolf

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 136
  Living on the roof of Africa, the Ethiopian wolf is one of the worlds rarest carnivores, if not the rarest! Trapped on a few mountain islands rising over 4,000 meters above sea level on either/both sides of the Great Rift Valley, this unique canid has so far survived millennia of human-animal interactions in one of ...
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• £52k award for Scottish Sea Angling Conservation Network – and a job

  
  For Argyll — Authority: 144
  Well deserved support has come to the energetic Scottish Sea Angling Conservation Network (SSACN). It has been awarded a funding package worth £52,000 to help support its initiative in gathering data on species of sharks, skates and rays found in Scottish waters. Many of these species are now endangered. The funding ...
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• Scientists can now eavesdrop on bacteria

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  Washington, Nov 9 (IANS) A new breakthrough will help scientists eavesdrop on bacteria and learn how they chat with one another. This finding is likely to lead to new therapeutic discoveries for diseases ranging from cancer to diabetes and allergies.Pieter C. Dorrestein, pharmacy professor at the University of ...
  22 hours ago

• Editorial: Last Act for the Bluefin

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 915
  The tuna fishery in the Mediterranean should be shut down until the fish have reached sustainable levels.
  22 hours ago

• Lawrence Solomon: Top environmental group downplays global warming threat

  
  FP Comment — Authority: 606
  One of the world’s top environmentalorganizations, the UN-affiliated International Union for the Conservation ofNature (IUCN), has publicly stated that global warming is being overhyped. The Geneva-basedorganization made the surprising comments with regard to the often-heard claimthat global warming is the chief ...
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• Obama slower than Bush in protecting Americas endangered species

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 136
  In George W. Bushs eight years as president, he placed 62 species under the protection of the Endangered Species Act (ESA), an average of eight species per year. While, Bushs slow pace in protecting endangered species frustrated environmentalists in light of continued decline among many species, Obama is moving even ...
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• Hunting across Southeast Asia weakens forests survival, An interview with Richard Corlett

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 136
  A large flying fox eats a fruit ingesting its seeds. Flying over the tropical forests it eventually deposits the seeds at the base of another tree far from the first. One of these seeds takes root, sprouts, and in thirty years time a new tree waits for another flying fox to spread its speed. In the Southeast Asian ...
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