Extinction

Technology To Prevent Roadkill Launched By Colorado

Treehugger | Andrew Posner | Posted 10.07.2008 | Green

Read More: Deer, Roadkill, Driving, Highways, Elk, Extinction, Environment, Endangered Species, Colorado, Animals, Green Technology, Green News

We recently covered the top five roadkill sites in America, as well as a dire IUCN report stating that "25% of all the world's mammal species are at...

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Mammals Face Extinction: One In Four Species Are At Risk, Scientists Say

AP | RANDOLPH E. SCHMID | Posted 10.06.2008 | Green

Read More: International Union for the Conservation of Nature, Mammals, Animals, Extinction, Green News

WASHINGTON — Conservationists have taken the first detailed look at the world's mammals in more than a decade, and the news isn't good. "Our re...

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Should We Move Species To Save Them?

AP | RANDOLPH E. SCHMID | Posted 07.17.2008 | Green

Read More: Extinction, Endangered Species, Extinct Species, Assisted Colonization, Assisted Migration, Terry Root, Green News

WASHINGTON — With climate change increasingly threatening the survival of plants and animals, scientists say it may become necessary to move som...

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Unearthed: News of the Week the Mainstream Media Forgot to Report

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Brendan DeMelle | Posted 07.11.2008 | Green

Read More: Gas Prices, Foreclosure Crisis, Fuel Efficiency, Bush Iran, Clean Air Act, Racial Profiling, Dick Cheney, Stopping Coal Power Plants, Whistleblowers, Voter Disenfranchisement, Extinction, Chemical Weapons Stockpile, Guantanamo Torture, Whale Hunting, CDC Climate Report, Global Warming, Wildlife, Green News
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Brendan DeMelle

Home foreclosures could affect voting rolls, Judge blocks coal plant due to global warming, Japan automakers control 34.7 percent of U.S. market, and U.S. exports to Iran grew tenfold under Bush.

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Climate Change Threatens Penguins

New York Times | Cornelia Dean | Posted 07.01.2008 | Green

Read More: Magellanic Penguins, Endangered Penguins, Penguins at Risk, Extinction, Climate Change, Global Warming Penguins, Penguins, Climate Change Penguins, Global Warming, Green News

P. Dee Boersma, a biologist at the University of Washington, has been watching the Magellanic penguins of Punta Tombo, in Argentina, for almost 30 yea...

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Native Plants Belong in Native Habitats

Paige Donner | Posted 04.03.2008 | Living

Read More: Land Use, Baby Bird Food, Birds, Beverly Hills, Susan Gottlieb, Rainfall, Theodore Payne, Theodore Payne Foundation, Native Plants, Caterpillars, California Native Plant Gardens, Garden Tour, Extinction, California Oak Tree, Biodiversity, Butterflies, Ecosystem, Insects, Water Conservation, Diversity, Native Plant Gardens, Living News
Paige Donner

Only 7% of insects can eat non-native plants. Without insects to convert plant material to proteins most higher land animal life forms will go extinct.A California native oak tree can support over 400 different kinds of insects. A Norway maple, for example, supports nothing.

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