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Extinction

Mexican Walking Fish Nearing Extinction

Treehugger | Michael Graham Richard | Posted 12.07.2008 | Green

Read More: Mexican Water Monster, Extinction, Mexico, Biodiversity, Environment, Mexican Walking Fish, Animals, Habitat Distruction, Axolotl, Green News

We're saddened to learn that the alien-looking Axolotl salamander (Ambystoma mexicanum), aka Mexican walking fish or Mexican water monster, is serious...

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Fang Gang: Study Finds Sabertooth Cats Surprisingly Social

Josie Garthwaite | Posted 12.02.2008 | Green

Read More: Baby Lions, Cats, Extinction, Environment, Green News, Green, Science, Climate Change, Endangered Species, Animals, Green News
Josie Garthwaite

The proportion of sabertooth fossils at La Brea matches that of large social carnivores attracted to the playbacks.

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Sixth Mass Extinction Underway: Save the Buttercup?

Josie Garthwaite | Posted 11.27.2008 | Green

Read More: Biology, Extinction, New Research, Flowers, Environment, Santa Barbara, Science, Conservation, Endangered Species, Green Living, News, University of Santa Barbara, Buttercup Flower, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, Marc Cadotte, Green News
Josie Garthwaite

In general, loss of species that perform unique functions and have few close relatives (in evolutionary terms) would cause the most disruption.

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Technology To Prevent Roadkill Launched By Colorado

Treehugger | Andrew Posner | Posted 11.07.2008 | 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 11.06.2008 | 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 07.25.2008 | 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 07.19.2008 | 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 07.09.2008 | 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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