Tagged with Extinction 
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Tuna Blues
So long and thanks for all the fish 44
Posted 3 days, 7 hours ago
There was some hope recently that the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas, the organization charged with managing the Atlantic tuna fishery, would listen to its own scientists and ban commercial Atlantic bluefin tuna fishing so that the species might survive. Nope.
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The shark of history bends toward justice
It’s time to end the practice of shark finning 5
Posted 3 months, 2 weeks ago
Every half-second a shark is killed for its fins. “Finning," as the practice is known, is decimating shark populations world-wide. Every year up to 73 million sharks are caught, stripped of their fins, and left for dead in the ocean.
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Would you like frogs with that?
Frogs in the forest: the new canaries in the coal mine 4
Posted 5 months ago
Today Grist devoured frogs for lunch -- well, not exactly. We sat down with conservation biologist Dr. Kerry Kriger of the newly minted nonprofit Save the Frogs! on his stop in Seattle during a country-wide speaking tour. As one of the lone voices raising the alarm for amphibians, Kriger dished about the worst disease ever to hit wildlife, why it's such a big deal that one-third of amphibians are threatened with extinction, and just how many people actually are having frogs for lunch.
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New research correlates mass extinctions with the rise and fall of oceans 9
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Slam Monk
Caribbean monk seal is extinct 2
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Owls are wimps 3
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Monday bummer blogging 17
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A non-technical piece on climate science 6
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Environment Day? Triage Day? The holiday needs more than a new name 1
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Heston on global warming 9
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Notable quotable 2
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Bush administration ignoring environmental laws, building border wall anyway 27
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Time in Memorial
Maya Lin’s latest memorial will pay tribute to the planet 0
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NYT op-ed: pesticides wiping out songbirds 8
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History Channel explores a world without humans 7
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Newsweek‘s cover story deserves Pulitzer—and global action 5
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Good News, Sad News 0
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Some good news and some bad news 9
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How wildlife biologists are becoming hospice workers 3
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So far, small-scale, local-minded beekeepers have dodged hive collapse. 19
Posted 2 years, 6 months ago