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Green Options (Free subscription) | yesterday
Design of the Svalbard seed vault as of early 2007 In 1992, the Global Biodiversity Convention (GBC) was adopted in Rio de Janeiro, and which placed the biodiversity issue center stage–calling for the world-wide preservation of biodiversity and its equitable and sustainable use. The convention was established in response to both the increasing rate of plant extinction (through habitat loss),...
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Desertification (Free subscription) | yesterday
Read at : Science Daily http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091106102954.htm DNA ‘Barcode’ for Tropical Trees ScienceDaily (Nov. 23, 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 Summit. Jérôme...
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | yesterday
BEIJING -- A panda research center in northwestern China has been closed to visitors as a precaution to protect the endangered species from catching swine flu, state media reported on Tuesday.
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Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
A new species of chameleon has been discovered in Tanzania by a team of scientists.Dr Andrew Marshall, from the Environment Department at the University of York, first spotted the animal while surveying monkeys in the Magombera Forest when he disturbed a twig snake eating one.The specimen was collected, tested and compared to two others found by scientists in the same area and has now been named Kinyongia...
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Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Deep sea teeming with species that have never known sunlightCensus of Marine Life scientists have inventoried an astonishing abundance, diversity and distribution of deep sea species that have never known sunlight - creatures that somehow manage a living in a frigid black world down to 5,000 meters (~3 miles) below the ocean waves.Revealed via deep-towed cameras, sonar and other vanguard technologies,...
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Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Since the 1997 international agreement to address global warming, climate change has seen its ups and downs, including extremely bleak warnings.So far, the world’s oceans have raised an inch and a half, serious droughts have plagued parts of the world, temperatures everywhere are warmer, and several endangered species continue to be threatened."The latest science is telling us we are in...
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Ask Slashdot (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
pdclarry writes "A recent study by scientists at the American Museum of Natural History and Columbia University found that a piece of tuna sushi may not be tuna at all: 'A piece of tuna sushi has the potential to be an endangered species, a fraud or a health hazard,' wrote the authors. 'All three of these cases were uncovered in this study.' The study, published in PLoS ONE examined 68 samples...
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New York Times (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
Evidence of Asian carp, a fish that some fear could destroy the ecosystem of Lake Michigan, has been found beyond a barrier intended to keep the fish out.
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Gene Expression (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
Pleistocene Megafaunal Collapse, Novel Plant Communities, and Enhanced Fire Regimes in North America : Although the North American megafaunal extinctions and the formation of novel plant communities are well-known features of the last deglaciation, the causal relationships between these phenomena are unclear. Using the dung fungus Sporormiella and other paleoecological proxies from Appleman Lake,...
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. -- Asian carp may have breached an electronic barrier designed to prevent the giant invaders from upsetting the ecosystem in the Great Lakes and jeopardizing a $7 billion sport fishery, officials said Friday.
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Green Options (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Bighead carp are one of two non-native species of Asian carp causing widespread concern among Great Lakes advocates. The other is silver carp. Great Lakes advocates are calling it a “ conservation emergency ” now that non-native Asian carp have been detected within seven miles of Lake Michigan. They want an immediate closure of locks and gateways leading to the lake in a literally”last-ditch”...
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Treehugger (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
From the news that scientists have created a bacteria that lights up around landmines to the development of a rot-proof apple--that stays fresh for 4 months--a lot happened this week in green. A new study called The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB) shows that putting money into protecting wetlands, coral reefs, and forests is a better investment than gold, Lloyd visited GreenBuild 2009...
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A DC Birding Blog (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Emperor Penguins / Photo by lin padgham Bird and birding news A study of the fossil record argues that there were six genera and nine species of moas (much lower than other estimates) and that the North and South Islands of New Zealand have been geographically isolated for 20-30 million years. The Puerto Rican Nightjar's range is much than previously estimated ; in all this species has 1,400-2,000...
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Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Roughly 15,000 years ago, at the end of the last ice age, North America's vast assemblage of large animals — including such iconic creatures as mammoths, mastodons, camels, horses, ground sloths and giant beavers — began their precipitous slide to extinction.And when their populations crashed, emptying a land whose diversity of large animals equaled or surpassed Africa's wildlife-rich Serengeti...
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Ars Technica (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
The Younger Dryas period was an era of extinctions and ecosystem change that occurred just prior to the end of the last ice age. It's also a hot area of research right now, with some researchers suggesting that a comet or meteor struck the earth over North America, killing off megafauna like mammoths and mastodons. That prompted a response that suggested the evidence for an impact might just be a...
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patrickguillard | 12/31/2008
Financed under the FP6 and partly by the international grant Marie Curie, the HOTMED project (Evolutionary origin of biodiversity hotspots with a Mediterranean climate)has participated to the set up of a new family tree of proteas (commonly known as sugarbushes) that reveals that new species of these plants are appearing three times faster in biodiversity hotspots.
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trymi | 11/05/2008
Delphi and Autonet Mobile are currently designing the next generation telematics platform that will provide entertainment, downloadable content and many other forms of media which will produce a new ecosystem of profits for OEMs.
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ciesm news | 10/06/2008
Owing to the increasing amounts of carbon dioxide being released to the atmosphere “ocean acidification may soon threaten unique ecosystems in the Mediterranean Sea”, concluded an international group of 15 leading scientists who just met in Menton, France, at the invitation of the Mediterranean Science Commission (CIESM). This International Commission federates over 4000 researchers distributed around
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