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October 27, 2010

Conservation Hope As Vertebrates Facing Extinction

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NAGOYA, Japan — One fifth of the world's vertebrates are threatened with extinction but conservation efforts are having an impact in slowing their demise, [...]
October 27, 2010

Fresh Policies Can Help Slow Biodiversity Loss

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Models forecast rates of extinction ranging from less than 1% per century to more than 50%. Consensus is very important when defining the length of time [...]
October 27, 2010

Researchers Assess Extinction Risks Of Vertebrates

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Elephants in Africa, among thousands of mammals in the assessment of extinction risk, have been evolving in Africa for at least 100 million years and face [...]
October 27, 2010

One In Five Vertebrates Threatened By Extinction

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One in eight birds are threatened with extinction, along with one in four mammals, one in seven bony fish, one in four reptiles, one in three amphibians, [...]
October 27, 2010

Conservation Hope As Vertebrates Facing Extinction

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NAGOYA, Japan — One fifth of the world's vertebrates are threatened with extinction but conservation efforts are having an impact in slowing their demise, [...]
October 27, 2010

One Fifth Of Vertebrates In The Grip Of An 'extinction Crisis'

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The world is in the grip of an “extinction crisis”, according to a study that found a fifth of mammals, fish, birds, amphibians and reptiles are in danger. [...]
October 27, 2010

Giant Crater May Have Been Extinction Trigger

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impacts in the world has been discovered in the Australian outback - an impact so powerful it may have been the trigger for a major extinction event. [...]
October 27, 2010

A Fifth Of World's Life At Extinction Risk

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Nagoya (Japan), Oct 27 (IANS) A fifth of the world's mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles and fishes are in imminent danger of going extinct, says this [...]
October 27, 2010

A Fifth Of World's Life At Extinction Risk

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A new report has suggested that an increasing numbers of birds, mammals and amphibians have moved closer to extinction in the last several decades-but not [...]
October 27, 2010

Fifty Species Move Closer To Extinction Every Year, Report Says

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Agricultural expansion, logging, over-exploitation and invasive alien species are pushing an average of 50 species closer to extinction every year, [...]
October 27, 2010

Japan Offers Two-

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Prime Minister Naoto Kan said Japan wanted to help lead the world in protecting the world's animals and plants from extinction, and offered the money to [...]
October 27, 2010

Study: A Fifth Of The World's Vertebrates At Risk Of Extinction

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(CNN) -- A fifth of the world's vertebrates are facing extinction because of invasion and the effects of agriculture, a global study warned Wednesday. [...]
October 27, 2010

A Fifth Of World's Life At Extinction Risk

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File photo A fifth of the world's mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles and fishes are in imminent danger of going extinct, says this year's edition of the [...]
October 27, 2010

20% Of World's Vertebrates Threatened With Extinction

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the most comprehensive of its kind, published in Science confirms that 20% of the world's vertebrate species are threatened with extinction. [...]
October 27, 2010

Tigers May Be Extinct In 12 Years

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STOCKHOLM: The world's tiger population could soon be extinct because of poaching, shrinking habitats and the use of tiger parts in Eastern medicine, [...]
October 27, 2010

UN Talks To Save Nature Zero In On Historic Deal

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Senior officials from nearly 200 countries have gathered in Nagoya, Japan, to set new goals for 2020 to fight animal and plant extinctions after they missed [...]
October 27, 2010

Earth Is 'at A Tipping Point'

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"That's why our fishery is in such a poor shape -- 70 to 80 per cent of the fish that we eat are in danger of disappearing or close to extinction," said [...]
October 28, 2010

Fifth Of The World's Species Facing Extinction: Study

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LONDON: A fifth of the world's species are facing the threat of extinction, a new research has warned. International scientists fear a global "extinction [...]
October 27, 2010

Extinction Fears: Fifth Of Animals Threatened

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A fifth of the world's mammals, birds, fish, reptiles and amphibians are under threat of extinction, it is warned. To view this content you need Flash and [...]
October 27, 2010

Harrison Ford Urges Bigger US Role To Save Nature

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the United States on Tuesday to step up its role in protecting nature by ratifying a 1993 global convention on fighting plant and animal extinction. [...]
October 27, 2010

Global Extinction Crisis Looms, New Study Says

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In addition, forces such as habitat destruction, over-exploitation and invasive competitors move 52 species a category closer to extinction each year, [...]
October 27, 2010

ScienceDaily: Extinction News


Extinction of animals and plants. Read scientific research on the dinosaur extinction, future mass extinctions, and endangered species. What can be done? [...]
October 27, 2010

BBC News - More Species Slide To Extinction


26 Oct 2010 One fifth of animal and plant species are threatened by extinction, a global study warns, but conservation efforts have pulled some back [...]
October 27, 2010

Top Saddam Aide Tariq Aziz Sentenced To Death


In biology and ecology, extinction is the end of an organism or of a group of organisms (taxon), normally a species. The moment of extinction is generally [...]
October 27, 2010

Steve Jobs Email About The White IPhone 4 Coming For Christmas Was ...


In biology and ecology, extinction is the end of an organism or of a group of organisms (taxon), normally a species. The moment of extinction is generally [...]

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