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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Monday bummer blogging	JMG	05 May 2008	Gristmill

Topics: climate, climate change impacts, extinction, greenhouse-gas emissions (all these topics)

Hansen for the plebes A non-technical piece on climate science	Joseph Romm	29 Apr 2008	Gristmill

Topics: climate, extinction, greenhouse-gas emissions, James Hansen (all these topics)

Let's dump 'Earth' Day Environment Day? Triage Day? The holiday needs more than a new name	Joseph Romm	22 Apr 2008	Gristmill

Topics: climate, climate change impacts, extinction, habitat loss, holiday, messaging (all these topics)

Heston on global warming	David Roberts	08 Apr 2008	Gristmill

Topics: celebrity, extinction, funnies, movies (all these topics)

Notable quotable	David Roberts	07 Apr 2008	Gristmill

Topics: agriculture, climate, extinction, quotables, severe weather (all these topics)

What would Edward Abbey do? Bush administration ignoring environmental laws, building border wall anyway	Glenn Hurowitz	02 Apr 2008	Gristmill

Topics: animal welfare, extinction, international politics, jackassery, Mexico, politics, Sierra Club, wildlife (all these topics)

Time in Memorial Maya Lin's latest memorial will pay tribute to the planet		01 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 4:45 PM on 01 Apr 2008 Maya Lin, an artist best known for designing the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., is making plans for a tribute to what has passed from the earth -- literally. Her planned memorial will list the names of animals, birds, and plants that have gone extinct. "The top 10 songbirds we grew up with are in a 40 percent to 70 percent decline. Our oceans are being devastated by o ...
Topics: art, endangered species, extinction, green living, news, wildlife (all these topics)

Birds do it; bees do it NYT op-ed: pesticides wiping out songbirds	Tom Philpott	31 Mar 2008	Gristmill

Topics: agriculture, extinction, food, health, organic food, US EPA (all these topics)

Welcome to Earth: Population 0 History Channel explores a world without humans	Sarah van Schagen	22 Jan 2008	Gristmill

Topics: extinction, population (all these topics)

The most moving environmental story of the year Newsweek's cover story deserves Pulitzer -- and global action	Glenn Hurowitz	12 Aug 2007	Gristmill

Topics: Congo, extinction, wildlife (all these topics)

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

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

Topics: biodiversity, endangered species, extinction (all these topics)

Fork it Over: Ways of bee-ing So far, small-scale, local-minded beekeepers have dodged hive collapse.	Tom Philpott	02 May 2007	Gristmill

Topics: food, agriculture, biodiversity, extinction (all these topics)

A bad deal for eels Conservation plan nixed	Andrew Sharpless	25 Apr 2007	Gristmill

Topics: endangered species, extinction, United Kingdom (all these topics)

Can you hear me now? Is the information age killing off honeybees?	Jerome Woody	16 Apr 2007	Gristmill

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

Topics: biodiversity, endangered species, extinction, green living (all these topics)

Humans spur worst extinctions since dinosaurs	Chris Schults	21 Mar 2006	Gristmill

Topics: biodiversity, extinction, habitat loss (all these topics)

Specious On Bjorn Lomborg and species diversity	Norman Myers	12 Dec 2001	Arts and Minds
Bjorn Lomborg opens his chapter on biodiversity by citing my 1979 estimate of 40,000 species lost per year. He gets a lot of mileage out of that estimate throughout the chapter, although he does not cite any of my subsequent writings except for a single mention of a 1983 paper and a 1999 paper, neither of which deals much with extinction rates. Why doesn't he refer to the 80-plus papers I have published on biodiversity a ...
Topics: biodiversity, books, extinction (all these topics)

Vanishing Point On Bjorn Lomborg and extinction	E. O. Wilson	12 Dec 2001	Arts and Minds
My greatest regret about the Lomborg scam is the extraordinary amount of scientific talent that has to be expended to combat it in the media. We will always have contrarians like Lomborg whose sallies are characterized by willful ignorance, selective quotations, disregard for communication with genuine experts, and destructive campaigning to attract the attention of the media rather than scientists. They are the parasite ...
Topics: biodiversity, books, extinction (all these topics)

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