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Frog Legs Trade May Facilitate Spread of Pathogens
Most countries throughout
the world participate in the
$40-million-per-year
culinary trade of frog legs
in some way, with 75 percent
of frog legs consumed in
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Paleontologists Find Extinction Rates Higher in Open-Ocean Settings During Mass Extinctions
Researchers have uncovered a
strikingly pattern for
ancient mass extinctions:
extinctions rates during
mass extinctions were
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Penguins and Sea Lions Help Produce New Atlas
Recording hundreds of
thousands of individual
uplinks from satellite
transmitters fitted on
penguins, albatrosses, sea
lions, and other marine
animals, the Wildlife
... > full story
Africa's Rarest Monkey Had an Intriguing Sexual Past, DNA Study Confirms
The most extensive DNA study
to-date of Africa's rarest
monkey reveals that the
species had an intriguing
sexual past. Of the last two
... > full story
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Is 80-Year-Old Mistake Leading to First Species to Be Fished to Extinction?
November 19, 2009 — A species of common skate is to become the first marine fish species to be driven to extinction by commercial fishing, due to an error of species classification 80 years ... > full story -
New Climate Treaty Could Put Species at Risk, Scientists Argue
November 16, 2009 — Plans to be discussed at the forthcoming UN climate conference in Copenhagen to cut deforestation in developing countries could save some species from extinction but inadvertently increase the risk ... > full story -
Potential Ecological Costs and Co-Benefits of REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation)
November 16, 2009 — A new paper examines the potential of a REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation) mechanism to provoke ecological damage and/or promote ecological cobenefits. Such analysis ... > full story -
Airborne Nitrogen Shifts Aquatic Nutrient Limitation in Pristine Lakes
November 13, 2009 — The impact of airborne nitrogen released from the burning of fossil fuels and wide-spread use of fertilizers in agriculture is much greater that previously recognized and even extends to remote ... > full story -
Amphibians As Environmental Omen Disputed
November 10, 2009 — Amphibians, for years considered a leading indicator of environmental degradation, are not uniquely susceptible to pollution, according to a new ... > full story -
New Fossil Plant Discovery Links Patagonia To New Guinea In A Warmer Past
November 10, 2009 — Fossil plants provide clues as to what our planet looked like millions of years ago. Identifying fossil plants can be tricky, however, when plant organs fail to be preserved. Researchers recently ... > full story -
Well-Traveled Wasps Provide Hope For Vanishing Species
November 9, 2009 — They may only be 1.5mm in size, but the tiny wasps that pollinate fig trees can travel over 160km in less than 48 hours, according to new research. The fig wasps are transporting pollen ten times ... > full story -
Can Biodiversity Persist In The Face Of Climate Change?
November 6, 2009 — Predictions made over the last decade about the impacts of climate change on biodiversity may be exaggerated, according to a paper published in the journal ... > full story -
DNA 'Barcode' For Tropical Trees
November 6, 2009 — In foods, soil samples or customs checks, plant fragments sometimes need to be quickly identified. The use of DNA "barcodes" to itemize plant biodiversity was proposed during the 1992 Rio de Janeiro ... > full story -
Scientists Launch Effort To Sequence The DNA Of 10,000 Vertebrates
November 5, 2009 — Scientists have an ambitious new strategy for untangling the evolutionary history of humans and their biological relatives: Create a genetic menagerie made of the DNA of more than 10,000 vertebrate ... > full story
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