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As we keep dumping greenhouse gases into the air, the oceans keep sucking them up, making the waters deadly to their inhabitants. The acidification – which some scientists believe is the fastest change in the ocean's chemistry in 300 million years –…
Scientists of the Alfred Wegener Institute and Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research have shown for the first time how the complexity of a life form can limit its ability to adapt to a warming climate. The new sutdy,…
The pygmy sloth’s fates have been up and down over the past 18 months. This summer, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced that the world’s rarest and smallest sloth could deserve protection under the Endangered Species Act. Read more here.
For the last several years scientists have fretted over the future of bees, and although research has shed much light on the crisis, those in the bee business—from hive keepers to commercial farmers—say the insects remain in deep trouble as…
Passenger pigeons, once the most abundant bird in North America, were extinct by 1914. But there's a chance that might change. An organization called Revive and Restore is enlisting the support of preeminent scientists and the National Geographic Society to…
The "little dodo", a flightless parrot and the world's largest ibis are among the world's 100 most unusual and endangered birds, according to a new study. Scientists from the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) and Yale University assessed the world's…
Amphibian experts are in search of "lost amphibians"—virtually extinct animals that may be eking out an existence in a few scattered hideouts, conservationists say. Scientists with the Conservation International and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)'s Amphibian Specialist…