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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Good News, Sad News Six species discovered in Congo, four endangered gorillas shot		09 Aug 2007	Daily Grist
Good News, Sad News Six species discovered in Congo, four endangered gorillas shot A research expedition to a remote forest in the Democratic Republic of the Congo found six new animal species -- a bat, a rat, two shrews, and two frogs -- and may have found new plant species as well. The trip, which ran from January to March and was led by the Wildlife Conservation Society, represented ...
Topics: biodiversity, Congo, endangered species, extinction, news, wildlife (all these topics)

Mongabay highlights for June '07 Some good news and some bad news	biodiversivist	29 Jun 2007	Gristmill
First up is an interview with Jack Ewing, owner of an eco-lodge in Costa Rica. I must admit that writing checks to conservation organizations is about as pleasurable as a trip to the dentist. Spending a week in a place like Hacienda Barú also supports conservation and is a hell of a lot more fun. I managed to photograph about half of the wildlife I saw while staying less than a week in Costa Rica. Best vacation I've ever had. I might put the video (much more interesti ...
Topics: agriculture, biodiversity, biofuels, Brazil, Costa Rica, endangered species, energy, extinction (all these topics)

Sitting by the bedside of a disappearing world How wildlife biologists are becoming hospice workers	Grist	06 Jun 2007	Gristmill
This guest essay comes from Meera Subramanian, who lives in Brooklyn, N.Y., and writes about culture and the environment for The New York Times, Salon, Audubon, and other publications. A year ago, I was sitting in New York City's Bryant Park interviewing a wildlife biologist about vultures, three species of which are well on their way to extinction in South Asia. Munir Virani, who oversees the South Asian Vulture Crisis project for the Peregrine Fund, dropped a phrase that ...
Topics: biodiversity, endangered species, extinction (all these topics)

Can you hear me now? Is the information age killing off honeybees?	Jerome Woody	16 Apr 2007	Gristmill
For a while now, scientist have been scratching their heads over the cause of Colony Collapse Disorder, a phenomenon in which bees away from their hives never return after going out to collect pollen. But according to a recent report filed by The Independent, scientists are now considering the possibility that the cause of CCD may be electromagnetic interference from mobile phone networks. From the article: The theory is that radiation from mobile phones inter ...
Topics: biodiversity, endangered species, extinction, green living (all these topics)

America as Jack Benny Can you hear me now that I'm standing in the field with no yield?	JMG	16 Apr 2007	Gristmill
Don't know if this story will turn out to be a tempest in a teapot or kick like typhoon in a tender spot, but the implications if the latter are profound. For you youngsters, Jack Benny's stage persona was as a miser; he used to do a bit where he would get held up and the robber would say, 'Your money or your life!' Then there'd be this pause. 'Well?!' And Jack would reply 'I'm thinking ...' If America was held up tomorrow and told, 'Your cell phones or your crops,' I exp ...
Topics: biodiversity, endangered species, extinction, green living (all these topics)

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