|
|
Species LossArchive of news articles on external web sites. For mongabay-specific articles, please see http://www.mongabay.com/xml-list.html
Bushmeat could lead to significant species loss in Africa within ... - Sep 15, 2008 Telegraph.co.uk,By Louise Gray, Environment Correspondent Reliance on bushmeat as the only source of protein for the rural poor in Central Africal is in danger of wiping Species extinction rising - Sep 21, 2008 Tempo,The chief cause for species loss, according to University of Colorado scientists, is the destruction of natural habitats by logging, agriculture and Rescuing Earth from Humans - Sep 18, 2008 Denver Post,By viewing the movie, you may see the species loss by their habitat cut and burned into oblivion. Not discussed in this sixth extinction session, CEMA announces Nitrogen Management Recommendations for Wood Buffalo - Sep 3, 2008 CNW Telbec (Communiqués de presse),This may result in loss of biodiversity and/or characteristic plant species. Loss of species diversity has been documented in the UK where current mean Flooding follows profit path - Sep 10, 2008 Trinidad News,I am not in a position to include considerations here about the effects of loss of biodiversity and what species loss can do to human well-being and the Eat less meat to fight climate change: UN expert - Sep 7, 2008 AFP...temperatures could unleash potentially catastrophic change to earth's climate system, leading to hunger, drought, storms and massive species loss. UN climate panel re-elects Rajendra Pachauri as chairman - Sep 2, 2008 AFP...temperatures could unleash potentially catastrophic change to earth's climate system, leading to hunger, drought, storms and massive species loss. Chautauqua presents day of climate conversation - Sep 18, 2008 Daily Camera,...“He’s going to present the audience with sort of the perfect storm that’s brewing with climate change, declining resources, species loss, Pachauri Re-Elected IPCC Chief - Sep 11, 2008 India Journal,...temperatures could unleash potentially catastrophic change in earth’s climate system, leading to hunger, drought, storms and massive species loss. 20% of the Brazilian Amazon's tree species to go extinct - Aug 11, 2008 Mongabay.comThe best way, the authors argue, to have most accurate descriptions of species loss in the coming decades is with more research. Humpback off critical list - Aug 12, 2008 The Age,This success for whales in a world of continuing species loss is also being claimed as a win by whalers, who advocate a renewed humpback kill. Climate Change Does not Mean Environment - Aug 11, 2008 Red, Green, and Blue,For example, species loss due to habitat degradation in the Amazon is probably of a more immediate threat than species loss due to climactic change. Middle of the road ... towards a cliff - Aug 7, 2008 The Age,Yet a three-degree rise would destroy the Barrier Reef, Kakadu and the tropical rainforests, cause widespread desertification, large-scale species loss and 7 steps to solve the global biodiversity crisis - Aug 11, 2008 Mongabay.comWith population and per-capita consumption expected to grow significantly by the mid 21st century, there seems little hope that species loss can be slowed. Diverse groups coalesce to protect environment - Jul 22, 2008 Seattle Post IntelligencerThe IPCC also has found that 20 to 30 percent of animal and plant species could be at an increased risk of extinction, with up to 60 percent species loss in Highway of Good Intentions? Vancouver Olympic Plans Bulldoze Rare ... - Aug 4, 2008 Scientific American..."We know the strongest predictor of species loss is habitat loss," says Arne Mooers, a biodiversity biologist at Simon Fraser University. The Future is Now: The End of Cheap Oil - Aug 11, 2008 Palestine Chronicle,At the base of all this – climate and weather changes, political antagonisms, corporate sponsored consumptive lifestyle, military engagements, species loss, Towards a biofuel standard to sort the green from the ungreen - Aug 12, 2008 WWF International,...conflict with feeding the world and that being green at the fuel bowser might be linked with large scale deforestation, forest fires and species loss. Endangered Species Act of 1973 - Jul 21, 2008 RedOrbit,Such diversions, say the authors, contribute to species loss and habitat degradation. "One wonders how many extirpated aquatic and riparian species have Hot, hot heat - Jul 31, 2008 Grist Magazine,By century's end we can expect extremely high surface temperatures Sure glacier melt, sea level rise, extreme drought, and species loss get all the media Deep Green: peak oil changes everything - Aug 5, 2008 Greenpeace UK,Poorly planned development left behind disappearing forests, toxic lakes, soil erosion, species loss, foul air, dead rivers, drying aquifers, and creeping Meat of the matter - Jul 29, 2008 Detroit Metro Times,With species loss accelerating in a virtual "sixth extinction," livestock currently accounts for 20 percent of all the animal biomass on the planet. Climate change – if we don't act now, we will have to pull the goalie - Jul 24, 2008 Bowen Island Undercurrent,..."At a five degrees, we are looking at 50 per cent species loss." Presented by Metro Vancouver, the Adapting to Climate Change Dialogue featured short Road to Copenhagen: Why the military should intervene in climate talks - Jul 17, 2008 Ethical Corporation Magazine,...energy policy that might be more effective in protecting a country from climate refugees, cyclones, and species loss, have national defence forces and Celebrate Lake Superior Sunday - Jul 16, 2008 Budgeteer,Although Lake Superior is the cleanest of the five Great Lakes, it too is being threatened by pollution, invasive species, loss of habitat and Species loss 'bad for our health' - Apr 23, 2008 BBC News,A new generation of medical treatments could be lost forever unless the current rate of biodiversity loss is reversed, conservationists have warned. Biodiversity loss hurts drug discovery, says medical book - Apr 22, 2008 Guardian,These developments could come from chemicals made by frogs, bears and pine trees, but the authors of "Sustaining Life" warned that species loss from climate Species loss threatens human health - Apr 23, 2008 Carbon Positive,The rate of medical advancement risks being slowed by climate change and other human factors causing species extinction, according to a new book with Biodiversity Is Crucial To Ecosystem Productivity - Apr 24, 2008 Science Daily (press release)Conversely, species loss has a decidedly negative impact on ecosystems. This is especially true in light of the role ecosystems play in capturing the global Humans creating new 'geological age' - Mar 30, 2008 Melbourne Herald Sun,..."In 2005, the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment published a report on the changes in species diversity and found the current rate of species loss is higher Nature oasis flourishes in Belgium's coal belt - Apr 12, 2008 Guardian,...hopes to use Hoge Kempen as an example of how to set up new national parks to boost conservation and help slow species loss. Hoge Kempen is home to 6000 GOING, GOING, GONE? New Satellite Images Reveal a Shrinking Amazon ... - Apr 16, 2008 Worldwatch Institute,Deforestation accounts for approximately one-fifth of global greenhouse gas emissions and is responsible for significant species loss worldwide. The Tinkerer's Manifesto - Apr 20, 2008 New York Sun,The great problems of the world economy — global warming, water scarcity, species loss, the human population explosion, terrible poverty — are, Agriculture and biodiversity: challenges and opportunities for ... - Mar 27, 2008 Business Green,Climate change is driving species loss and leading to desertification. Likewise, a growth in the number of alien invasive species is threatening The Media’s Delusional take on Multiculturalism - Apr 11, 2008 Canada Free Press,Celebrating higher density living, traffic jams, more pollution, more sprawl, loss of farmland, loss of wetlands, and species loss. About 70% of species at Our new age of extinction - Mar 30, 2008 Advertiser Adelaide,..."The current rate of species loss is higher than the background rate inferred in the fossil record," he said. "Another 10 to 30 per cent of birds, Settlement with CSX brings $491976 to conservation department - Apr 10, 2008 Clanton Advertiser,This settlement money will be used by the Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries Division to support future investigations of aquatic species loss," said Alabama Earth Day 'Green' celebration brings together food, fun and music - Apr 21, 2008 Texas A&M The Battalion,...and presenting solutions for environmental issues such as climate change, sustainable design, species loss and human health hazards. Combatting green fatigue - Apr 21, 2008 Pasadena Star-News,Species loss? The fuzzies and the scalies that are gone are not coming back anytime soon. Water pollution, air pollution? Sticking around. What's driving beach restrictions - Apr 10, 2008 News & Observer,There will be no serious consideration of environmental fact, because there is no peer-reviewed science to support the claims of species loss as the result Low-carb diet we have to have - Apr 5, 2008 Sydney Morning Herald,...including: a doubling of the number of very hot days (over 35 degrees) in the eastern states; catastrophic mortality of coral species; loss of more than Regulating water levels - Mar 28, 2008 Watertown Daily Times,...water levels are too low to allow access) and cause species loss (eg, frozen turtles or muskrat mortalities due winter freeze out conditions). 3. Hands off coal subsidies, all you renewa-fools - Mar 31, 2008 Sydney Morning Herald,Rising sea levels, unpredictable weather, heatwaves, species loss and extinction. These are all valid concerns, and scary when put together in one movie. The 11th Hour (DVD) -- Thom Hartmann's Independent Thinker Review ... - Apr 4, 2008 BuzzFlash,This movie moves seamlessly from the global environmental crisis, to species loss, to crises in energy, trash, and toxins. The breadth is breathtaking. Unconventional Action Strikes DNC Headquarters on Fossil Fools Day - Apr 2, 2008 Infoshop NewsThe "greenwashers" action was to send a message that to address the very urgent and real issues of climate change, species loss and other harmful trends F2C: Carbon Negative Internet II - Apr 1, 2008 Corante,Careful with what science she chooses, but are looking at a possible catastrophic change with massive species loss. Predictions look at what's going to CNN scores with 'Planet in Peril' documentary - Apr 18, 2008 Atlanta Business Chronicle,..."Not everyone was agreeing on is there really global warming, species loss, is it a bad thing or is it cyclical? The more we talked about it, Scientists discovered the lungless frog in Borneo - Apr 8, 2008 InTheNews.co.uk,The Barboroula kalimantanensis frog lives in cold, fast-flowing water, so the researchers say the species' loss of lungs might be an adaptation to a Defender of the deep - 22 Feb 2008 Globe and Mail,It's a familiar refrain among this conference of divers who often witness species loss through their goggles long before marine scientists predict it. Amazon state launches Zero Extinction Program for endangered species - 22 Feb 2008 Mongabay.comDeforestation has been linked to species loss. As part of the program, Pará has compiled a "red list" of threatened species, which includes 91 vertebrates, Ending the Wilderness Drought - 22 Feb 2008 New West,...of stopping this extinction is in western North America and ecosystem protection bills like NREPA is the most effective way of reducing species loss. Mass extinctions from global warming preventable, panel says - 22 Feb 2008 Sauk Valley Newspapers,The World Conservation Union says that the rapid loss of species today is 1000 to 10000 times higher than the natural rate of species loss over the past Mass extinctions from global warming preventable, panel says - Feb 20, 2008 Kansas City Star,The World Conservation Union says that the rapid loss of species today is 1000 to 10000 times higher than the natural rate of species loss over the past Hare-less: Yellowstone's Rabbits Have Vanished, Study Says - Feb 16, 2008 Science Daily (press release)..."From the perspective of ecological health and wildlife conservation, reintroduction would also show that species loss has serious ecological costs. New report warns of runaway climate change - Feb 9, 2008 Green Left Weekly,Walker said that Hansen warned in December that climate tipping points have already been passed for large ice sheet disintegration and species loss, Climate Change, the Deep Seas and Dinner - Jan 30, 2008 Wired NewsA recent Current Biology study found that benthic ecosystems are extremely fragile, with species loss having a ripple effect more powerful than observed in Lomborg 'Could Save the Planet' - Feb 19, 2008 The Heartland Institute,...that many claims about global warming, overpopulation, energy resources, deforestation, species loss, and water shortages are not supported by analysis. SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY - Jan 24, 2008 The Tribune,The evidence shows that species loss today is accelerating. We find ourselves uncomfortably privileged to be witnessing a mass extinction event as it’s Global climate changes pose serious threats - Jan 25, 2008 Beacon Newspaper (subscription),...that "Europeans can expect extensive species loss, and North Americans will experience longer and hotter heat waves and greater competition for water." EPA Chief Defends His Decision on California - Jan 25, 2008 New York Times,...of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works listed climate change effects specific to California, including wildfires and species loss. SMALL ISLAND COUNTRIES SAY CLIMATE CHANGE ALREADY THREATENS "VERY ... - Feb 13, 2008 Media Newswire (press release),...he said, in discussing how climate change would compromise biodiversity, it was important to remember that, hidden behind statistics on species loss, Science Debate 2008: Candidates Invited - Feb 12, 2008 Huffington Post,What should be done about climate change, species loss, fragile oceans, population issues, and threats to global water supplies? What are the candidates' Call for a Science Debate between Presidential Candidates on April 18 - Feb 11, 2008 Reason Online,...pandemic diseases; the health of the oceans; water resources; stem cells; conservation and species loss; population; the space program, and others. Your children’s real future: what future? - Jan 28, 2008 The Daily Planet,Global species loss!� Burr’s pessimism is limitless. “The world is approaching the point of death,� he writes. “Our culture has literally gone mad. [an error occurred while processing this directive] archives | news | XML / RSS feed | featured
|
MONGABAY.COM
WEEKLY NEWSLETTER SOCIAL MEDIA
T-SHIRTS 
CALENDARS 
CANVAS BAGS 
|
|
Copyright mongabay 2009 |
