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  Almost 500 New Species Discovered at Senckenberg: Newly Discovered Species in 2011 and 2012

  January 25, 2013 — In the last two years scientists at the Senckenberg research institutes have discovered and described almost 500 new ... > full story
• Extinction
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  Extinction Rates Not as Bad as Feared ... for Now: Scientists Challenge Common Belief

  January 24, 2013 — Concerns that many animals are becoming extinct, before scientists even have time to identify them, are greatly overstated, according to new ... > full story
• Monkeys
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  Better Outlook for Dwindling Black Macaque Population in Indonesia

  January 23, 2013 — Since at least the 1970s, the population of critically endangered Sulawesi black macaques living in an Indonesian nature reserve has been dropping. But a new study shows that the population has ... > full story
• Climate
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  Public Acceptance of Climate Change Affected by Word Usage

  January 22, 2013 — Public acceptance of climate change's reality may have been influenced by the rate at which words moved from scientific journals into the mainstream, according to an ... > full story
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  Mother Bear Knows Best Place to Call Home

  January 22, 2013 — Mama bear appears to know best when it comes to selecting a place to call home, according to a new study. The research, which may ultimately help protect Alberta's dwindling population of grizzly ... > full story
• Ecology
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  Paradise Found for Latin America's Largest Land Mammal

  January 22, 2013 — Scientists have documented a thriving population of lowland tapirs – the strange forest and grassland-dwelling herbivore with the trunk-like snout – living along the Peru-Bolivia ... > full story
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  Monkeys Stressed from Longer Foraging Times

  January 22, 2013 — Disturbed habitats are resulting in increasingly poor diets for monkeys, and the additional time required to find food is causing concerning levels of stress in endangered ... > full story
• Marine Biology
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  Wood on the Seafloor: An Oasis for Deep-Sea Life

  January 22, 2013 — Sunken woods promote the dispersal of rare deep-sea animals, forming hotspots of biodiversity at the deep ... > full story
• Trees
  Energy and the Environment
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  Wind in the Willows Boosts Biofuel Production: Trees Grown Diagonally Produce Five Times More Biofuel

  January 18, 2013 — Willow trees cultivated for 'green energy' can yield up to five times more biofuel if they grow diagonally, compared with those that are allowed to grow naturally up towards the sky. This effect had ... > full story
• Climate
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  Heat Waves, Storms, Flooding: Climate Change to Profoundly Affect U.S. Midwest in Coming Decades

  January 18, 2013 — In the coming decades, climate change will lead to more frequent and more intense Midwest heat waves while degrading air and water quality and threatening public health. Intense rainstorms and floods ... > full story

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