NewsRack: 'Biodiversity' news in 'NewsTrust Environment' topic for user newstrust

What tigers and kiwi birds have in common (Cached)	18.5.2013	Boing Boing
What tigers and kiwi birds have in common
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Let's Fight Big Pharma's Crusade to Turn Eccentricity Into Illness	17.5.2013	Wired Top Stories
Let's Fight Big Pharma's Crusade to Turn Eccentricity Into Illness
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Caribbean Talks Conservation on Branson's Island	17.5.2013	International Herald Tribune: Americas
Caribbean Talks Conservation on Branson's Island
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Caribbean talks conservation on Branson's island	17.5.2013	AP Business
KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) -- In a bid to safeguard biodiversity and the Caribbean's tourism-based economy, regional political leaders and corporate executives will gather Friday on billionaire Richard Branson's private island with the aim of protecting 20 percent of the region's coastal resources by 2020....
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Caribbean talks conservation on Branson's island	17.5.2013	Boston Globe: Latest
Caribbean talks conservation on Branson's island
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Community Agriculture Alliance: Enhance the Yampa Valley's biodiversity with native plants	16.5.2013	Steamboat Pilot
Last year, I thought that using similar species in my gardens and other landscaping would benefit our local pollinators and wildlife just the same as our true natives. Turns out that is not always the case.
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China Granted Observer Seat on Arctic Governing Council	16.5.2013	International Herald Tribune: Americas
China Granted Observer Seat on Arctic Governing Council
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The technology that links taxonomy and Star Trek (Cached)	15.5.2013	Boing Boing
The technology that links taxonomy and Star Trek
Kiwi Conservation Genetics	15.5.2013	The Earth Times Online Newspaper - Environment News
One of he oddest of the exoic birds from that wonderland called New Zealand, this little spotted kiwi has been conserved for over a century.However, because of the lack of diversity within its genes, it may yet face extincton in he future.
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Climate change brings disease threat for polar bears	15.5.2013	New Scientist: Health
Climate change brings disease threat for polar bears
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Gathering along the Upper Tigris River	15.5.2013	International Rivers News RSS Feed
By: Jason Rainey I’m heading to the Tigris River next week with a bundle of recent news articles under my arm that sets the context for an upcoming international gathering of river defenders in Turkey. Last week the New York Times reported on China reviving dam construction on the Nu River, one of Asia’s last unregulated rivers, which flows through China’s biodiversity hotspot in Yunnan Province and the Three Parallel Rivers World Heritage site (before draining the Burma/Thailand border under the name Salween River). In the illuminating and well-researched article, Chinese environmentalist Wang Yongchen’s question has been ringing in my ears: “Why can’t China have just one river that isn’t destroyed by humans?” Just One River! Last week the Washington Post reported that the World Bank is making a major push to finance mega-scale hydropower dams (they call them “transformational projects”) on the Congo and Zambezi rivers, in the Himalaya and elsewhere. Reflecting on the past ...
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One-third of animal species will be hit by climate change, scientists warn	13.5.2013	The Guardian -- World Latest
Plant and animal species could see dramatic losses as habitats become unsuitable and ecosystems collapse One-third of common land animals could see dramatic losses this century because of climate change, scientists predict. More than half of plants could be hit the same way as habitats become unsuitable for numerous species. The collapse of ecosystems would have major economic impacts on agriculture, air quality, clean water access, and tourism. Global temperatures are set to rise 4C above preindustrial levels by 2100 if nothing is done to stem greenhouse gas emissions. This could have a hugely destructive effect on thousands of common as well as rare and endangered species around the world, according to the researchers. An estimated 57% of plants and 34% of animals were likely to lose half or more of their habitat range. But the damage would be greatly reduced if emissions were scaled down in time, the study shows. Losses are reduced by 60% if global warming is cut to 2% ...
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Abbreviated Pundit Round-up	12.5.2013	NewsTrust Yahoo Pipes Feed
Paul Krugman provides a list of good science fiction for economists, which includes some news of which I was unaware. As I see some commenters have already pointed out, the list really must include Asimov’s Foundation Trilogy; ideally the new folio edition, for which guess who wrote the introduction. ... And any Iain Banks Culture novel; Use of Weapons was my gateway, but Consider Phlebas, or actually any of them, will do. Banks is terminally ill, so his work should be especially treasured now. As happens all to often, the regular NY Times Sunday crew is eminently skip-able. Ross Douthat is convinced that the IRS is picking on the Tea Party because the leftism equals paranoia. Maureen Dowd slings an aimless, holier than thou pox on both left and right from her lofty perch on Mt. Snide. And Thomas Friedman is... Thomas Friedman. Displace yourself into the rest of the piece, and lefts see if there's not a pundit out there who shows a little culture. ...
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News Analysis: The Hidden World of Soil Under Our Feet	11.5.2013	NYT > Environment
News Analysis: The Hidden World of Soil Under Our Feet
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Companies won't face charges in condor deaths	11.5.2013	LA Times: Science
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service grants exceptions to a wind farm and a building project in harassing or killing the endangered birds. Federal wildlife officials took the unprecedented step Friday of telling private companies that they will not be prosecuted for inadvertently harassing or even killing endangered California condors.
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Ancient DNA Found Hidden Below Sea Floor	9.5.2013	Wired Top Stories
Ancient DNA Found Hidden Below Sea Floor
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Evolutionary theory gone wrong	9.5.2013	The Guardian -- World Latest
Survival of the fittest? Darwin never said that Evolution? It is only a theory, many creationists will tell you. "Only a theory" is meant to be dismissive, yet much of science is based on things that are only a theory. Theories are important; they are how science works. Theories are not facts – theories are explanations of the world that we observe. Theories are based on facts but are not themselves facts. As they are the basic stuff of science, calling something only a theory makes no sense as an insult. So I am not sure what the creationists are on about: clearly they want to discount science as "tricks of the Devil" – it might be easier for them to just say that. Trying to use "only a theory" as a dismissal of real science is a huge misinterpretation of how a scientific theory works in general, and evolutionary theory more specifically. The creationists aren't alone in this; there are many misinterpretations of evolutionary theory out there (as my fellow Occam's Corner blogger Henry Gee ...
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BLM postpones oil, gas lease auctions in Calif.	8.5.2013	Twincities.com: Nation
SAN FRANCISCO—Federal land managers on Tuesday postponed all oil and gas lease auctions in California until October, citing budget problems and
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Ecuador’s El Oriente: A Paradise Still in Peril	6.5.2013	The Moderate Voice
About two years ago, I wrote about the idyllic weeks and months I spent as a child in Ecuador’s “el Oriente.” El Oriente is Ecuador’s magnificent jungle region on the East side of the majestic Andes Mountains. It is the beginning of the Amazon rain forest basin — some parts still pristine — and one [...]
Scientist at Work: Blaschka Glass Menagerie Inspires Marine Expedition	6.5.2013	NY Times: Science
Scientist at Work: Blaschka Glass Menagerie Inspires Marine Expedition
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