Extinction

Technology To Prevent Roadkill Launched By Colorado

Treehugger | Andrew Posner | Posted 10.07.2008 | Green


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...

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

AP | RANDOLPH E. SCHMID | Posted 10.06.2008 | Green


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...

Should We Move Species To Save Them?

AP | RANDOLPH E. SCHMID | Posted 07.17.2008 | Green


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

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

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


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.

Climate Change Threatens Penguins

New York Times | Cornelia Dean | Posted 07.01.2008 | Green


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...

Native Plants Belong in Native Habitats

Paige Donner | Posted 04.03.2008 | Living


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.