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HUMANS CREATING SIXTH GREAT EXTINCTION OF ANIMAL SPECIES, SAY SCIENTISTS
The modern world is experiencing a sixth great extinction of animal species even when the lowest estimates of extinction rates are considered, scientists have warned... READ MORE›
SYRIAN CIVIL WAR CAUSES THE FIRST EVER WITHDRAWAL FROM THE 'DOOMSDAY BANK'
The request for the seeds is exactly the kind of difficult event that the vault was established to help with, those behind it said... READ MORE›
SEED BANK AIMS TO PROTECT WORLD'S AGRICULTURAL INHERITANCE FROM SYRIA WAR
Lebanon project aims to recreate Aleppo collection of 150,000 seeds representing knowledge of generations of farmers in Middle East... READ MORE›
SYRIAN WAR SPURS FIRST WITHDRAWAL FROM DOOMSDAY ARCTIC SEED VAULT
Syria's civil war has prompted the first withdrawal of seeds from a doomsday vault built in an Arctic mountainside to safeguard global food supplies, off... READ MORE›
DURING MASS EXTINCTION, NO SPECIES SAFE
Dominant species spread across the globe are just as vulnerable during a mass extinction event as more fragile ones confined to a single locale, according... READ MORE›
'DOOMSDAY' VAULT STORES TREE SEEDS IN CASE OF ARMAGEDDON
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault, also known as the doomsday vault, took its first contribution of tree seeds this week. Video provided by Newsy... READ MORE›
DURING MASS EXTINCTION NO SPECIES SAFE STUDY
However, this insurance weakened towards the end of the Triassic, and was imperceptible during the mass extinction itself... READ MORE›
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GIRAFFES FACING EXTINCTION AFTER DEVASTATING DECLINE, EXPERTS WARN
The cage bird trade in Asia is also driving many feathered species towards extinction, including the spectacular sunset lorikeet... READ MORE›
GIRAFFES FACE 'SILENT EXTINCTION' AS POPULATION SHRINKS NEARLY 40 PERCENT
In 1985, there were between 151,000 and 163,000 giraffes but in 2015 the number was down to 97,562, according to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature IUCN ... READ MORE›
CONSERVATIVES ELECTED TRUMP; NOW THEY OWN CLIMATE CHANGE
Furthermore, there are some conservatives who do take climate change seriously... READ MORE›
60 PERCENT OF GLOBAL WILDLIFE SPECIES WIPED OUT
The Living Planet Report 2016, released on Thursday, blamed deforestation, pollution, overfishing, and the illegal wildlife trade for pushing species populations to the edge ... READ MORE›
SIXTH MASS EXTINCTION? TWO-THIRDS OF WILDLIFE COULD BE GONE BY 2020
In the report, the rapid extinction is blamed on habitat loss, over exploitation of resources, pollution and climate change... READ MORE›
REVEALED: THE CRIMINALS MAKING MILLIONS FROM ILLEGAL WILDLIFE TRAFFICKING
Many iconic animals are heading toward extinction only 30,000 rhinos are alive today, 5 percent of the number four decades ago... READ MORE›
ALTERING WILD GENE POOLS COULD STOP DISEASES, SAVE SPECIES -- BUT EVEN PROPONENTS URGE CAUTION
Another idea is to save endangered birds on the Hawaiian islands by releasing altered mosquitoes that cannot carry avian malaria... READ MORE›
WORLD'S LARGEST GORILLA MOVED TO 'CRITICALLY ENDANGERED' STATUS
An update of International Union for the Conservation of Nature IUCN Red List contains bad news about great ape species... READ MORE›
'ONE-TWO PUNCH' DELIVERED DINO DEATH BLOW
This new temperature record provides a direct link between the volcanism and impact events and the extinction pulses -- that link being climate change, Petersen said... READ MORE›
PACIFIC ISLANDS NATIONS CONSIDER WORLD'S FIRST TREATY TO BAN FOSSIL FUELS
Their willingness to consider a Pacific climate treaty shows much-needed leadership on the world's most pressing environmental challenge, she said... READ MORE›
MAMMALS THRIVED LONG BEFORE THE DINOSAURS DIED
The prevailing theory that mammals only flourished after an asteroid strike wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago is doubly wrong, according to a st... READ MORE›
2 DEGREES CELSIUS: A CRITICAL NUMBER FOR CLIMATE CHANGE
Framework Convention on Climate Change said in a statement... READ MORE›