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September 29, 2011
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Highlights From the Archives
Bid to Undo Bush Memo on Threats to Species
President Obama ordered a review of a Bush administration rule that exempted officials from having to consult with wildlife experts before taking actions that might harm endangered species.
March 4, 2009scienceNewsA Conversation With Stuart L. Pimm
Asking ‘Why Do Species Go Extinct?’
Stuart L. Pimm has made one of the grimmest topics on earth — extinction — his specialty.
November 4, 2008scienceInterviewARTICLES ABOUT ENDANGERED AND EXTINCT SPECIES
Climate Change and the Exodus of Species
Some species are changing their migration patterns faster than expected to adapt to the warming climate, but others, left behind, are becoming extinct.
September 26, 2011MORE ON ENDANGERED AND EXTINCT SPECIES AND: GLOBAL WARMING, GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS
Way of the Wolf in Wyoming
Wolves have made a remarkable comeback, thanks to federal protections. But a bad deal with Wyoming leaves their survival at stake yet again.
September 23, 2011MORE ON ENDANGERED AND EXTINCT SPECIES AND: HUNTING AND TRAPPING, EDITORIALS, WOLVES, WYOMING, INTERIOR DEPARTMENT, FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE, MEAD, MATT, SALAZAR, KEN
Feathers Trapped in Amber Reveal a More Colorful Dinosaur Age
Paleontologists in Canada have found 70-million-year-old amber preserving 11 specimens showing a wide diversity of feather types and pigments in the Mesozoic Era.
September 20, 2011MORE ON ENDANGERED AND EXTINCT SPECIES AND: PALEONTOLOGY, FEATHERS, DINOSAURS, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, BIRDS, COLOR
Making Headway in the Movement to Protect the World’s Sharks
The last 12 months have seen a flurry of laws, regulations and industry actions to end the international trade in shark fins.
September 11, 2011
Deal Will Expand Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona
Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona will expand its boundaries and increase opportunities for visitors to peer into a time period that preceded the era when dinosaurs thrived.
September 8, 2011How Many Leaves on the Tree of Life?
A recent study concludes that there are about 8.7 million species on Earth, but that may be just the half of it.
September 6, 2011
Fears in Miami That Port Expansion Will Destroy Reefs
Florida’s Department of Environmental Protection is on the verge of granting a final permit to the Army Corps of Engineers to widen and deepen the channel for the port of Miami.
September 4, 2011Water Use by Vineyards Is Challenged
The increased use of water by Sonoma County vineyards has come under scrutiny from scientists and agencies that say it is harming coho salmon and steelhead trout in local rivers.
August 26, 2011MORE ON ENDANGERED AND EXTINCT SPECIES AND: CONSERVATION OF RESOURCES, WATER, FISH AND OTHER MARINE LIFE, SONOMA COUNTY (CALIF)
Conservation, Beyond Boundaries
Saving animals that range freely across thousands of miles will require more from us than creating safe zones at our current rate.
August 23, 2011MORE ON ENDANGERED AND EXTINCT SPECIES AND: OCEANS AND SEAS, EDITORIALS, TURTLES AND TORTOISES, BIODIVERSITY, LAND USE POLICIES, NATIONAL PARKS, MONUMENTS AND SEASHORES, FISH AND OTHER MARINE LIFE
Fishing Gear Is Altered to Ease Collateral Costs to Marine Life
Modifications to fishing gear are helping to limit accidental catches of marine creatures in fishing operations.
August 23, 2011MORE ON ENDANGERED AND EXTINCT SPECIES AND: ENVIRONMENT, WHALES AND WHALING, DOLPHINS AND PORPOISES, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, FISHING, COMMERCIAL, FISH AND OTHER MARINE LIFE
Fearing a Planet Without Apes
As the human population expands, our closest relatives are disappearing.
August 21, 2011MORE ON ENDANGERED AND EXTINCT SPECIES AND: MONKEYS AND APES, FORESTS AND FORESTRY
In Montana, the Grizzly’s Return Comes With Strings Attached
Along the Rocky Mountain Front, the grizzly bear population has been thriving, and expanding its range to human habitats.
August 16, 2011The Salmon Deserve Better
A Federal District Court judge in Oregon rejected an inadequate federal plan claiming to save imperiled salmon species in the Columbia River Basin.
August 12, 2011MORE ON ENDANGERED AND EXTINCT SPECIES AND: SALMON, EDITORIALS, COLUMBIA RIVER (PACIFIC NORTHWEST), BONNEVILLE POWER ADMINISTRATION, NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION, NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES SERVICE, OBAMA, BARACK, CLINTON, BILL, BUSH, GEORGE W
Oregon: Judge Rules Against U.S. Plan for Salmon
A federal judge has found that the Obama administration’s attempt to make federal hydroelectric dams in the Northwest safer for protected salmon violates the Endangered Species Act.
August 3, 2011
Fossil May Evict Archaeopteryx From Avian Family Tree
A Chinese fossil representing a previously unknown species of birdlike dinosaur could represent the final straw in the theory that Archaeopteryx was the earliest bird.
August 2, 2011MORE ON ENDANGERED AND EXTINCT SPECIES AND: PALEONTOLOGY, FOSSILS, DINOSAURS, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, BIRDS, CHINA
The Call of the Thylacine — Protect the Wild
In an Australian journey, a painting of an extinct marsupial was a reminder of how fragile species are.
August 2, 2011The Cougar Behind Your Trash Can
If a cougar can walk from South Dakota to Connecticut, a cougar could show up anywhere.
July 29, 2011MORE ON ENDANGERED AND EXTINCT SPECIES AND: MOUNTAIN LIONS, CONNECTICUT, SOUTH DAKOTA, GREENWICH (CONN)
Climate Change and the Terrible Plight of the Whitebark Pine
Whitebark pine is a keystone species of an entire ecosystem in the West that is now seriously at risk.
July 28, 2011MORE ON ENDANGERED AND EXTINCT SPECIES AND: PINE TREES, TREES AND SHRUBS, FORESTS AND FORESTRY, EDITORIALS, GLOBAL WARMING, CANADA
Phoenix Zoo Takes In Animals Threatened by Fire
The Mount Graham red squirrel and the Three Forks springsnail, both endangered species, are being given shelter by the Phoenix Zoo.
July 27, 2011MORE ON ENDANGERED AND EXTINCT SPECIES AND: FOREST AND BRUSH FIRES, ZOOS, SNAILS, SQUIRRELS, PHOENIX (ARIZ)
Peeking Inside Snow Leopards’ Forbidding Afghan Kingdom
A wealth of snow leopard images has helped estimate population numbers, identify individuals and track migrations.
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Candids From a Global Mammal Study
More than 100 mammal species, some threatened or endangered, were captured by remote camera traps from seven protected areas around the world.
Counting Species in Peru
Douglas Stotz of the Field Museum and Nigel Pitman of Duke University took a biological inventory of a vast roadless area in Peru’s northern Amazon.
A Gallery of Species Lost and On the Brink
A few of the tens of thousands of species that scientists say have gone extinct or become critically endangered over the past 30 years.
African Wings, With Nowhere to Fly
On the Kinangop Plateau in Kenya, birds that have adapted to life at high altitudes are coming under new threats from global warming and destruction of their habitats.
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