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Trump’s War on Endangered Species

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www.rollingstone.com - This week, the U.S. Department of Interior released a plan to essentially gut the Endangered Species Act, one of the most popular and powerful environmental laws on the books. The fact that we have a…

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Ecotourism in Texas Is Way Down, Thanks to Trump’s Border Wall | Care2 Causes

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www.care2.com - In normal years, ecotourism along the U.S.- Mexico border brings in around half a billion dollars. 2019 was predicted to be a blockbuster year for visitors, but that’s not happening – largely thanks …

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Widespread losses of pollinating insects revealed across Britain

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www.theguardian.com - A widespread loss of pollinating insects in recent decades has been revealed by the first national survey in Britain, which scientists say “highlights a fundamental deterioration” in nature. The anal…

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World's biggest T. rex discovered

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www.nationalgeographic.com - A fossil site in Canada has yielded the heaviest Tyrannosaurus rex specimen ever found—an animal that weighed an estimated 19,500 pounds in life, far heftier than most elephants alive today. The dino…

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Whole genome duplication potentiates inter-specific hybridisation and niche shifts in Australian burrowing frogs Neobatrachus

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www.biorxiv.org - Polyploidy plays an important role in evolution because it can lead to increased genetic complexity and speciation. It also provides an extra copy buffer and increases genetic novelty. While both com…

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Bonanza of Bizarre Cambrian Fossils Reveals Some of the Earliest Animals on Earth

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www.livescience.com - A newfound fossil site in China is teeming with bizarre, primitive species that have never before been found any place on Earth. The bounty of creatures includes a spiny, segmented animal known as a …

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Interior Nominee Intervened to Block Report on Endangered Species

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www.nytimes.com - Among the other participants in these meetings, the records show, was Rebeckah Adcock, who until April 2017 had been a director of government affairs and registered lobbyist for CropLife and who now …

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Deadly skin-eating fungal disease wipes out 90 amphibian species in 50 years

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www.theguardian.com - A deadly disease that wiped out global populations of amphibians led to the decline of 500 species in the past 50 years, including 90 extinctions, scientists say. A global research effort, led by the…

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Nearly 100 species of frogs, toads and salamanders wiped out by fungus

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www.newscientist.com - The extinction of 90 species of amphibians can be pinned on a deadly fungal disease, according to the most comprehensive exercise yet to map its impact. In total, chytridiomycosis contributed to the …

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Buy organic food to help curb global insect collapse, say scientists

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www.theguardian.com - Buying organic food is among the actions people can take to curb the global decline in insects, according to leading scientists. Urging political action to slash pesticide use on conventional farms i…

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The waters of the Galapagos Islands are being invaded by alien species

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www.newscientist.com - The waters around the Galapagos islands, a hotspot of biodiversity off the coast of Ecuador, have been invaded by more alien species than previously thought. While the number of invasive species on l…

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Novel budding mode in Polyandrocarpa zorritensis : a model for comparative studies on asexual development and whole body regeneration

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evodevojournal.biomedcentral.com - In addition to sexual reproduction and embryogenesis, a significant number of metazoan species are able to propagate asexually or regenerate completely and form new bodies through non-embryonic devel…

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22 things you didn't know about hedgehogs

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www.mnn.com - Long before Beatrix Potter unleashed the twinkly-eyed hedgehog washerwoman Mrs. Tiggy-Winkles upon the world, children have been enamored by the spiny mammals. In fact, a carved toy hedgehog — presum…

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In the Blue Ridge foothills, the National Zoo has a quiet spot for conservation

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www.washingtonpost.com - The Smithsonian’s Conservation Biology Institute in Front Royal, Virginia, is nestled in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. The 3,200 acres are used for research and breeding of animals that …

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Mass amphibian extinctions globally caused by fungal disease

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phys.org - An international study led by The Australian National University (ANU) has found a fungal disease has caused dramatic population declines in more than 500 amphibian species, including 90 extinctions,…

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Nine Ways To Make Your Home And Yard Bird-Safe

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www.forbes.com - Bird feeders and tall vegetation increase bird-window collision risks, according to a new study Eastern Screech-owl dust print on a sliding glass door. Manhattan KS (2003). The owl was unharmed and f…

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Gallery: Meet 6 bewitching, rarely seen creatures from the ocean’s twilight zone

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ideas.ted.com - A jellyfish that flashes rainbows as it moves. A worm with twisting yellow tentacles that it uses to take in food. A carnivorous fish with its own built-in fishing rod. Welcome to the ocean’s wondrou…

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The 'ecosystem canaries' which act as warning signs of collapse

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www.theguardian.com - The Earth’s biodiversity is under attack. We would need to travel back over 65 million years to find rates of species loss as high as we are witnessing today. Conservation often focuses on the big, e…

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New cryptic bird species discovered, #conservation #ornithology #bird news via @RareBirdAlertUK

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www.rarebirdalert.co.uk - The recently discovered Cream-eyed Bulbul.(© Subir Shakya, LSU) In the lush, lowland rainforests on the island of Borneo lives a rather common, drab brown bird called the Cream-vented Bulbul, or Pycn…

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growing epimediums in the shade garden, with karen perkins - A Way To Garden

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awaytogarden.com - I WILL CONFESS right off, I love epimediums, but apparently not as much as Karen Perkins, who boasts the largest selection of these choice perennial plants for sale in the United States. Though o