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Southern right whale recovery in doubt after on brink of extinction
2016-03-16 05:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: A population of southern right whales that was hunted to the brink of extinction by the start of the 20th century has only recovered to 12% of its original population size and will take at least six decades to recover fully, new research suggests. By that time, the population is likely to be be impacted by climate change. In the 19th century, armed with just hand-held harpoons and sailing ships, hunters killed almost every New Zealand southern right whale, leaving just 15 to 20 mature females...
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The Global Solution to Extinction
2016-03-13 03:07:14| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: DURING the summer of 1940, I was an 11-year-old living with my family in a low-income apartment in Washington, D.C. We were within easy walking distance of the National Zoo and an adjacent strip of woodland in Rock Creek Park. I lived most of my days there, visiting exotic animals and collecting butterflies and other insects with a net that I had fashioned from a broom handle, coat hanger and cheesecloth. I read nature books, field guides and past volumes of National Geographic. I had already conceived...
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Pollinators face extinction, study says
2016-02-27 22:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CNN: Bees, birds, butterflies and beetles are among a growing list of pollinator species in jeopardy of global extinction, a United Nations study warns, a trend that could threaten the world's food supply. Beyond the birds and the bees, tens of thousands of species of pollinators that play a significant role in the world's food production and contribute to billions of dollars in food yield are at risk, according to a report released by the United Nations Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on...
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Study By UN Warns Extinction Danger For Bees, Butterflies, Other Pollinators
2016-02-27 08:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inquisitr: A study by United Nations has forewarned that bees, birds, butterflies, and beetles are among a growing list of pollinator species under the threat of global extinction, a trend that could put the world`s food supply at risk. Tens of thousands of species of pollinators like bees, butterflies, flies, moths, wasps, beetles, birds, bats, and other animals that contribute to pollination play a significant role in the world`s food production and contribute to billions of dollars in food yield are at...
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Creation of an island: The extinction of animals on Zanzibar
2016-02-23 13:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] Researchers at the University of York have been part of the first comprehensive study of how Zanzibar was formed, charting the extinction of various animals from the island. In a collaborative project between environmental scientists and archaeologists, a team charted the history of sea level change by examining mangrove sediments, and conducting analysis on animal remains found in Kuumbi Cave - an important archaeological site. Focusing on evidence from three distinct…
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