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Kenya to toughen poaching sentences to save elephants
Apr 06, 2013 (AFP)
Kenya plans to bolster current lenient sentences for convicted wildlife poachers or ivory smugglers in a bid to stamp out a spike in elephant killings, the gove...
Ozone masks plants volatiles, plant eating insects confused
Apr 05, 2013 (SPX)
Increases in ground-level ozone, especially in rural areas, may interfere not only with predator insects finding host plants, but also with pollinators finding ...
Endangered Vietnam elephant 'skinned, disemboweled'
Apr 05, 2013 (AFP)
The skinned and mutilated corpse of one of Vietnam's dwindling population of endangered wild elephants has been discovered in a forest in central Quang Binh pro...
Breeding birds vulnerable to climate change in Arctic Alaska
Apr 05, 2013 (SPX)
A new report from the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) looked at the vulnerability of 54 breeding bird species to climate change impacts occurring by the yea...
Invasive crabs help Cape Cod marshes
Apr 05, 2013 (SPX)
Long vilified, invasive species can sometimes become an ecosystem asset. New Brown University research published online in the journal Ecology reports exactly s...
Turtle species not extinct: it never existed, study
Apr 04, 2013 (AFP)
A Seychelles freshwater turtle species declared extinct after decades of futile searches, in fact never existed, scientists said Thursday. While Man has the ext...
Landmark deal struck to protect Sumatran rhino
Apr 04, 2013 (AFP)
Malaysia and Indonesia have struck a landmark deal to try to save the critically endangered Sumatran rhino, whose population stands at fewer than 100, the Inter...
Rare river otter spotted near Colo. city
Apr 04, 2013 (UPI)
A camera trap outside Boulder, Colo. has recorded the local area's first sighting of a North American river otter in almost 100 years, officials said. The pictu...
Geckos keep firm grip in wet natural habitat
Apr 03, 2013 (SPX)
Geckos' ability to stick to trees and leaves during rainforest downpours has fascinated scientists for decades, leading a group of University of Akron researche...
Massive prehistoric bird extinction linked to human colonization
Apr 03, 2013 (SPX)
Research by a University of Tennessee, Knoxville professor has found that about a thousand bird species became extinct following human colonization. Research by...
South Africa rhino poaching toll for year tops 200
Apr 03, 2013 (AFP)
Poachers have killed over 200 rhinos in South Africa this year, the environment ministry said Wednesday, as a major security operation fails to curb illegal hun...
Picking apart photosynthesis
Apr 03, 2013 (SPX)
Chemists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory believe they can now explain one of the remaining mys...
The splendid Skadar Lake (Montenegro and Albania), surprises with new species of snails
Apr 03, 2013 (SPX)
The Gastropoda, more commonly known as snails and slugs, are a large group of animals within the phylum Mollusca. Gastrop?ds species are extremely diverse in fo...
Uncovering Africa's oldest known penguins
Apr 02, 2013 (SPX)
Africa isn't the kind of place you might expect to find penguins. But one species lives along Africa's southern coast today, and newly found fossils confirm tha...
Insect pests more plentiful in hotter parts of city than in cooler areas
Apr 02, 2013 (SPX)
Higher temperatures in cities can be a key driver of insect pest outbreaks on trees in urban areas, according to research published in the open access journal P...
Study maps accidental killings of sea turtles
Apr 01, 2013 (AFP)
Sea turtles can get accidentally caught and killed in fishing operations, and new research out Monday seeks to map this phenomenon for the first time in a bid t...
Indonesia seizes nearly 700 endangered turtles
Apr 01, 2013 (AFP)
Indonesian authorities have seized nearly 700 endangered pig-nosed turtles at the main airport serving the capital Jakarta, an official said Monday. The turtles...
Computer Simulations Yield Clues to How Cells Interact With Surroundings
Mar 28, 2013 (SPX)
Your cells are social butterflies. They constantly interact with their surroundings, taking in cues on when to divide and where to anchor themselves, among othe...
Mathematical butterflies provide insight into how insects fly
Mar 28, 2013 (SPX)
In Robert A. Heinlein's science-fiction novel, The Cat Who Walks Through Walls, one of the characters states that butterflies are just "...self-propelled flower...
WWF says Chinese 'river pig' close to extinction
Mar 28, 2013 (AFP)
China's wild finless porpoises are heading toward extinction, a conservation group said Thursday, with the dolphin-like animals now rarer than the giant panda. ...
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