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A Malaysian snail goes extinct with 22,000+ other species on the brink
2014-11-22 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Star: Fishing, logging, mining, agriculture and other activities to satisfy our growing appetite for resources are pushing wild species towards extinction. A species of Malaysian microsnail has been declared extinct in the latest Red List of Threatened Species released by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Plectostoma sciaphilum, known only from a single limestone hill in Pahang, has disappeared as the outcrop which it inhabited, Bukit Panching near Kuantan, was quarried...
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'Extinct' snail found alive on remote atoll Indian Ocean
2014-09-10 04:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mother Nature Network: The Aldabra banded snail was believed to have been driven to extinction by climate change, but researchers have found a few stragglers precariously hanging on to existence. Climate change, widespread pollution and human development have caused what scientists are calling the 6th great mass extinction in Earth's history. It's a grim projection, but occasionally a species offers a small glimmer of hope against the odds. Take, for instance, the "extinct" Aldabra banded snail, a small air-breathing...
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Austria's only snail farmer
2014-09-03 01:12:28| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
The IT worker who quit his job to farm snails
Acidic ocean water is dissolving sea snail shells
2014-05-04 15:37:21| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Science Times: Increasing acidity of the ocean is dissolving the shells of tiny marine snails called pteropods, according to a new study by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The pteropod is a free-swimming snail found in oceans around the world that grows to a size of about one-eighth to one-half inch. The evidence of corrosive waters impacting the snails, which provide food for pink salmon, mackerel, and herring, was discovered by a research team at NOAA's Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory...
Study: The Latest Victims of Climate Change Are Snail Shells
2014-05-03 17:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Time: Climate change has claimed its latest victim: Limacina helicina, a planktonic, predatory sea snail thats a member of the taxonomic group more commonly known as sea butterflies. (The name is derived from the wing-like lobes the tiny creatures use to get around.) In a study recently published in journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, a group of scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and Oregon State University have found that the Pacific Oceans decreasing...
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