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I Am a Scorpion. It Is My Nature.

Aaron E. Carroll | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, American Medical Association, Pharmaceutical Industry, Health Insurance, Insurance Companies, Politicians, Frogs, Scorpions, Politics News
Aaron E. Carroll

The fable, as it is told, involves a scorpion and a frog.  The scorpion needs to cross a river, so he asks the frog to carry him on his back.&nbs...

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Gatorade Could Be The Cure For Dying Frogs?

New Scientist | Posted 10.25.2009 | Green

Read More: Frog Disease, Gatorade Cure, Fungus, Gatorade, Frog Fungus, Animals, Frog-Killing-Fungus, Frogs, Frog, Electrolytes, Green News

The fungus now decimating frog populations around the world does its damage by impairing the animals' ability to absorb electrolytes through their ski...

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EPA Decides to Take a New Look at Atrazine

Andrew Wetzler | Posted 10.08.2009 | Green

Read More: Pesticides, Drinkingwater, Simplesteps, Atrazine, Toxics, Midwest, Health, Ecosytems, Pesticide, Frogs, Green News
Andrew Wetzler

Today the Environmental Protection Agency announced that it will initiate a review of the health and environmental effects of atrazine, one of the most widely used pesticides in the United States.

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Jason Linkins

Glenn Beck Boiling Frog VIDEO: Did Beck Just Kill A Frog?

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.23.2009 | Media

Read More: Video, Glenn Beck Fakes Frog Death, Glenn Beck Kills a Frog, Glenn Beck Frog, Glenn Beck, Frogs, Glenn Beck Frog Video, Glenn Beck Boiling Frog Video, Glenn Beck Boiling Frog, Media News

Holy shit. Did Glenn Beck just kill a poor little frog, on national teevee? Yes! Or...no, maybe it was faked! Or maybe it was real, and Beck is no...

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Anti-fungal Drugs Could Save Endangered Frogs Around the World

Mairi Beautyman | Posted 09.25.2009 | Green

Read More: Endangered Animals, Green, Endangered Species, Green Living, Frogs, Panamanian Golden Frog, Panama, Extinction, Endangered Frog Species, Green News
Mairi Beautyman

IUCN: "Amphibians are the most threatened group of animals in the world, with one in three of the 6,000... species at risk of extinction." And according to the IUCN, that's bad for humans too.

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My Friend the Toad

Karin Luisa | Posted 09.08.2009 | Living

Read More: Mexico, Toads, Puerto Escondido, Swimming, Vacation, Pool, Frogs, Living News
Karin Luisa

I wondered what it was like to be such a squooshy being, and he perhaps wondered why I was so big.

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Fighting The Frog-Killing Fungus That Has Wiped Out Species

AP | BRETT ZONGKER | Posted 06.12.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, Animals, Frog-Killing Fungus, Frogs, Green News

WASHINGTON — Zoos in the U.S., Panama and Mexico are deploying researchers in Central America to develop new ways to fight a fungus blamed for w...

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New Species Of Green Tree Frog Discovered In Papua New Guinea

AP | KRISTEN GELINEAU | Posted 04.25.2009 | Green

Read More: Tree Frog, New Tree Frog, Animals, Frogs, New Species Discovered, Papua New Guinea, Green News

SYDNEY — A brilliant green tree frog with huge black eyes, jumping spiders and a striped gecko are among more than 50 new animal species scienti...

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Frogs

Neil McCarthy | Posted 03.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bill Clinton, Rush Limbaugh, Economy, Economic Crisis, Fbi, Obama Administration, Wall Street Journal, Clinton Administration, Frogs, Barack Obama, Krugman Obama, Bill Kristol, Paul Krugman, Universal Health Care, William Kristol, Republicans, Politics News
Neil McCarthy

The GOP is telling us that the solution to our current problems is some combination of tax cuts, a spending freeze, reduction of the deficit, and the condemnation the "earmark."

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Tree Frog Good Indicator Of Rich Climates

BBC NEWS | Posted 03.09.2009 | Green

Read More: Tree Frogs, Animals, Global Warming, Frogs, Climate Change, Green News

Understanding a region's climatic history can help locate areas rich in species, scientists say. A research group from North and South America used t...

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