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Experts poised for rare frog hunt  -  Aug 31, 2008
BBC News,By Rebecca Morelle Scientists are set to begin a hunt for the some of the world's rarest frogs in Costa Rica, including the iconic golden toad,

Frog Quest Jumps to Costa Rica  -  Sep 3, 2008
Prensa Latina,He rediscovered Ithsmohyla rivularis, thought extinct for over 20 years, feeding hope to find the Golden Toad (Bufo Peregrines) whose 1500 population in

Costa Rica’s Forests May House Lost Amphibian Species  -  Sep 1, 2008
Costa Rica Travel News,...“To find this species last year that was thought to have become extinct at the same time as the golden toad was incredible - it’s the rarest tree frog in

The near-constant damp, humid conditions of the cloud forest allow ...  -  Sep 16, 2008
Peterborough Examiner,Unfortunately, one species, the Monteverde-endemic golden toad, has already become extinct. When I asked Roy to explain how climate change is affecting the

Geoengineering for Animals  -  Jul 17, 2008
Wired NewsImage: From WikiMedia commons, the Costa Rican golden toad, whose extinction has been directly attributed to climate change.

Could Climate Change Impact Costa Rica? New Study Says Yes  -  Jul 17, 2008
Science Daily (press release)...“After the extinction of the golden toad sometime between 1987 and 1989, corresponding with a warm event in the Pacific Ocean, scientists began relating

"Dire Predictions" book offers easy guide to global warming science  -  Jul 23, 2008
Penn State Live,...reefs pointing to "How Human Activity Has Changed the Rules of the Game," or polar bears and a golden toad illustrating the "Highway to Extinction?

Last-Ditch Resort: Move Polar Bears to Antarctica?  -  Jul 18, 2008
Wired NewsAnd for animals whose natural habitat has been eradicated, or who live -- as did the golden toad of Costa Rica's cloud forest -- in rapidly changing places

Aesthetic pleasure, and an urgent message  -  Mar 29, 2008
Globe and Mail,In addition, there is a stencilled text running up one side that adds some important information: "Golden Toad - First Species Extinct as a Result of

Posted By Drew Monkman  -  Apr 22, 2008
Peterborough Examiner,Spectacular species such as Australia's gastric brooding frog and Costa Rica's Monteverde golden toad are already gone forever.

Stop the climate change propaganda  -  Feb 7, 2008
Observer Online,However, a Chris D. Thomas survey in 2004 found that global climactic shifts have caused one extinction (that of the Golden Toad of Costa Rica).

Amphibians on the EDGE – Some the world’s weirdest creatures in ...  -  Jan 24, 2008
Wildlife Extra,Around 120 species are likely to have become extinct since the 1980s, including most famously the Golden toad of Monteverde, Costa Rica, which was last seen

‘Extinct’ Frog Rediscovered in Costa Rica  -  Oct 11, 2007
Wildlife Extra,The species had dissapeared from Monteverde along with the Golden Toad, almost 20 years ago, and, no-one had seen it since. Although Andrew could have

Extinct? No, I just hopped off  -  Sep 24, 2007
Manchester Evening News,These include the fabled Golden Toad of Costa Rica, believed to be one of the first casualties of global warming. Andrew, a curator at Manchester Museum,

Saving the Earth - one kid at a time  -  Oct 21, 2007
Fort Worth Star Telegram,My only criticism would be that it's tough for a sensitive child like Lilly to read page after page about golden toad extinction, threatened polar bears,

21 new species found in forest that has kept its secrets since the ...  -  Sep 25, 2007
Times Online,The rediscovery raises hopes that the creature reputed to be the first victim of climate change, the golden toad, Bufo pere-glenes, may yet be found again.

Scientist finds ‘extinct’ frog  -  Sep 26, 2007
This Is Lancashire,Experts say the find is not only significant, but also provides new hope that other species considered to be extinct, such as the Golden Toad, may also have

Climate change claims a snail  -  Aug 12, 2007
Mongabay.comThere are few cases where this has been demonstrated directly (the golden toad Bufo periglenes), although indirect effects are reported for a large number

Survival of the hitlist  -  Aug 8, 2007
The Northern Echo,The Costa Rican golden toad is believed to have been one victim. It relied on having high humidity and that moisture has been lost. Even size matters.

Scholastic product seeks to make youngsters 'agents of change'  -  Aug 7, 2007
WorldNetDaily,..."It states that global warming is undeniably caused by industrial activities, and it shows pictures of little animals like the golden toad that it claims



Climate change, fungal disease threatening frogs  Oct 24, 2006
Climate change and disease are main factors for the extinction of the Golden Toad of Costa Rica, Ecuador's Jambato Toad and an Ecuadorean toad known as ... - Reuters

Global Warming Linked To Deadly Fungal Disease In Amphibians  Oct 25, 2006
According to the 2004 Red List of endangered species, climate change and disease are main factors for the extinction of the Golden Toad of Costa Rica ... - All Headline News

Climate Change: The Issues  Nov 3, 2006
The Golden Toad of Costa Rica has already been exterminated and better known species in extreme danger are the polar bear, seals, walruses, penguins and ... - Pravda,

The Top 10 Natural Hotspots  Oct 30, 2006
Its golden toad holds the dubious distinction of being what is believed to be the first species to become extinct directly as a result of global warming. ... - Belfast Telegraph,

Catastrophic: Writer examines facts, presents disturbing case  Oct 29, 2006
There is a section on tracing climate changes by noting the migration patterns of butterflies, and another on the extinction of the Golden Toad as a ... - Winston-Salem Journal (subscription),
Chytrid Fungus, Toxic Fundamentalism, and the Mass Extinction of ... Mar 27, 2006
...magazine. In it, I came across a picture of a Costa Rican Golden Toad - a tiny, bright orange amphibian with large, gentle black eyes. ...
Political Affairs Magazine,

Dying toads may indicate extinction crisis Mar 15, 2006
GOLDEN TOAD The latest 2004 Red List gives "climate change" alongside "disease" as main factors for the extinction of the Golden Toad of Costa Rica, Ecuador's ...
Namibian,

Vanishing Toads Could Portend Extinction Crisis Mar 17, 2006
The latest 2004 Red List gives "climate change" alongside "disease" as main factors for the extinction of the Golden Toad of Costa Rica, Ecuador's Jambato Toad ...
Sci-Tech Today

Fiddling As The Earth Burns Mar 24, 2006
Conservation of Nature (IUCN), 844 animals and plants are known to have gone extinct in the last 500 years, ranging from the Dodo to the Golden Toad in Costa ...
CounterCurrents.org,

Warmer-globe consequences a riveting read Mar 25, 2006
Other crea tures are seeking higher elevations, and some, like the Costa Rican golden toad, are disappearing off mountain ranges altogether. ...
Cleveland Plain Dealer,

FACTBOX-UN meeting to try to slow species loss Mar 14, 2006
A global "Red List" of endangered species has documented 844 extinctions since 1500, from the flightless dodo to the Golden Toad of Costa Rica. ...
Reuters AlertNet,

Humans spur worst extinctions since dinosaurs: UN Mar 20, 2006
...by the World Conservation Union, 844 animals and plants are known to have gone extinct in the last 500 years, ranging from the dodo to the Golden Toad in Costa ...
Reuters.uk,

Humans spur worst extinctions since dinosaurs Mar 20, 2006
...by the World Conservation Union, 844 animals and plants are known to have gone extinct in the past 500 years, ranging from the dodo to the golden toad in Costa ...
Sydney Morning Herald,

To boldly go where no man has gone before Mar 14, 2006
...last days. The golden toad of Costa Rica disappeared shortly after its discovery, so did the Kihansi spray toad of Africa. In late ...
Grist Magazine,

Two new books conclude we are warming ourselves right into ... Mar 3, 2006
...points to bleached and dying coral reefs in the tropics, beetles and budworms ravaging boreal conifer forests, the extinction of Costa Rica's golden toad and a ...
Seattle Times,

Global time-bomb Mar 3, 2006
...he weaves a narrative of allegorical power, from volcanic blow-outs 50 million years ago to the modern extinction of Costa Rica’s golden toad, desiccated and ...
Times Online,

Book Review: Field Notes from a Catastrophe by Elizabeth Kolbert Mar 1, 2006
Vignettes also describe instances of warming-induced migration (butterflies moving their ranges northward) and disappearance (the golden toad, which had ...
Monsters and Critics.com,

The eye of the storm Mar 5, 2006
Chapters here have titles like "A Warning From the Golden Toad," "The Last Act of God?" and "Last Steps on the Stairway to Heaven?" With interlocking and ...
Orlando Sentinel,
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