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Bruton’s speech on forestry interrupted by Extinction Rebellion

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www.irishtimes.com - Minister for Climate Action Richard Bruton was constantly interrupted by protestors as he attempted to address a conference on forestry as a solution to Ireland’s climate emergency at the National Bo…

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Tardigrades: animals with superpowers

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allyouneedisbiology.wordpress.com - The smallest bears in the world have almost superhero abilities. Actually, they are not bears: water bears is the popular name of tardigrades. They are virtually indestructible invertebrates: they ca…

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Opinion | Japan’s resumption of commercial whaling could set a dangerous precedent

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www.washingtonpost.com - By Editorial Board July 7 at 7:28 PM AFTER A hiatus of 31 years, Japan resumed commercial whale hunting on July 1, withdrawing officially from the International Whaling Commission, a global whale con…

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Hundreds of sharks and rays entangled in plastic, scientists say

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www.foxnews.com - Fox News Flash top headlines for July 8 are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com Hundreds of sharks and rays are entangled in plastic waste in the ocean, according to new research. Scientis…

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Telomere shortening rate predicts species life span

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Angsuman Chakraborty

www.pnas.org - The exact causes of aging are still not understood, and it is unclear why some species live less than 1 d, while others can live more than 400 y. Research suggests that telomeres are related to the a…

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Just How Many Extinct Types of Human Did Our Ancestors Meet? - The Crux

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blogs.discovermagazine.com - For the past ~40,000 years, Homo sapiens — modern humans — has been the only Homo species on Earth. But for most of our history, there were close evolutionary cousins of ours, human but not quite lik…

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BirdLife calls for Urgent High-level Support for African Vultures

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www.birdlife.org - BirdLife Botswana (BirdLife Partner) is unequivocally condemning the recent poisoning of 537 highly endangered vultures by elephant poachers in the Central District of Botswana. This devastating inci…

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Protesters hold 'funeral for the future' in Lincoln

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Kate Armitage

thelincolnite.co.uk - Climate protesters dressed in sombre clothing and skulls painted on their faces held a “funeral” for the future this weekend. The mourners carried tombstones and a coffin covered in wreaths as part o…

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7 Facts About Sea Stars That Are Out of This World - Ocean Conservancy

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oceanconservancy.org - Sea stars are possibly one of the most recognizable and iconic of all marine wildlife species, and a coastal classic when it comes to shoreline visits. Yet, there’s so much more than meets the eye wh…

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New species of snake discovered in the Bahamas with metallic skin

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www.dailymail.co.uk - They have a reputation for being 'silver-tongued' creatures in many folk tales and legends, but now a snake that appears to be covered in the precious metal has been discovered by biologists. The Sil…

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Recovering Africa’s lost lion populations

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www.awf.org - Almost 200,000 lions roamed Africa one century ago, but recent studies show that the species is extinct in 26 countries across the continent and occupies a fraction of its historical rangeland. With …

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Climate change and deforestation together push tropical species towards extinction

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phys.org - Only 38 per cent of tropical forest is 'wildlife friendly' as a result of deforestation, increasing the likelihood that vulnerable species will go extinct, say scientists. Researchers from the Univer…

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Science of summer: learning how new trees may help an old forest

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ottawacitizen.com - Postmedia’s series on the Science of Summer goes for a walk in the woods today as Tom Spears asks how a research forest in Petawawa is looking south for new ways to resist the heat. Future forests co…

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Could We Save Coral By Making Land-Based Coral Farms? | Care2 Causes

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www.care2.com - We have trawled them to death with our fishing practices, picked them clean for souvenirs and contributed to extreme warming that has led to vast swathes of the reefs succumbing to bleaching – where …

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Escalator to Extinction: How Mountain Species Are Imperiled by Warming

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Peter Lombard

e360.yale.edu - A shift in home range by a handful of bird species along an obscure ridge in the Peruvian Andes might once have seemed like sleepy stuff, even to ecologists. Instead, it made headlines last month whe…

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How to make your lawn a wildlife haven this summer and help insects

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inews.co.uk - If you could ask British insects about the habitats they prefer, they’d probably tell you that you can’t improve on grassland that’s rich with wildflowers. For farmers, though, grassland is said to b…

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10 Easy Ways To Help Save Sharks

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www.sharksider.com - Humans are killing sharks at an unprecedented rate. An estimated 100 million a year are killed for meat, as byproducts of commercial fishing, pollution, and out of fear. This is causing shark populat…

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As Ticks Spread, New Disease Risks Threaten People and Livestock

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insideclimatenews.org - It didn't take long for one of America's newest tick species to find Thomas Mather. Mather, an entomologist who specializes in the tiny disease-carriers, had taken a team of scientists to Staten Isla…

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June heat wave fuels mass die-off of Bodega Bay mussels

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www.pressdemocrat.com - As a scientist, Jackie Sones trains her focus on observable data — what can be documented, quantified and compared. But it’s taken some effort recently to keep her emotions at bay, as she worked amon…