Aug. 10, 2016 The Endangered Species Act was enacted by Congress in 1973 to protect species threatened with extinction. To receive protection, a species must first be listed as endangered or threatened. A two-year ...
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Aug. 9, 2016 The Gulf of Maine coastline, historically home to one of the richest shellfish populations in the US, is undergoing a dramatic change, with once-flourishing wild blue mussels all but disappearing, ...
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Aug. 9, 2016 Researchers have sequenced mitochondrial DNA from museum specimens of rare species of deer. Analysis of partial nucleotide sequences has enabled the team to refine our picture of the evolutionary ...
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Aug. 9, 2016 Invasive plants are a problem around the world, but are they just a nuisance or are they killers? So far there are no documented cases of native plants becoming extinct purely because of an alien ...
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Aug. 9, 2016 Scientists can now reliably predict which bodies of water contain the endangered and elusive sawfish species -- by conducting a simple ...
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Aug. 8, 2016 Researchers found behavioral evidence that tiger sharks prefer to opportunistically scavenge on dead or weakened green turtles rather than actively hunting healthy individuals despite more ...
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Aug. 4, 2016 A new study finds researchers may have been missing the mark on the diet of endangered snow leopards. The findings suggest the leopards have been consuming larger, not smaller, species, and ...
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Aug. 4, 2016 Researchers reveal how they used chicken blood to rear larvae of the fly Philornis downsi, an invasive species that parasitizes birds in the Galapagos Islands. The new method may be the first to ...
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Aug. 3, 2016 The first ever satellite tracking study of one the world's endangered seal species has revealed new information about their migration habits and hunting ...
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Aug. 2, 2016 A gene for red colour vision that originated in the reptile lineage around 250 million years ago has resulted in the bright red bird feathers and 'painted' turtles we see today, and may be ...
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Aug. 2, 2016 Could periodic forest thinning and prescribed burns intended to prevent dangerous "megafires" help conserve owls in the long run? Or are those benefits outweighed by their short-term harm ...
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Aug. 3, 2016 A research group has described and named a new species of ant from Hong Kong, Paratopula bauhinia, or the rare "Golden Tree ...
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Aug. 1, 2016 New research finds that choosing how to meet bioenergy goals means making trade-offs about which wildlife species and ecosystems will be most impacted. The work focuses on the southeastern United ...
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Aug. 1, 2016 Experts call for new conservation guidelines after research shows 90% of tropical amphibian and reptile species are affected by the 'edge effect' and forest islands less than 500m in ...
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July 28, 2016 A new acoustic buoy recently deployed to listen for some of the world's biggest animals in the New York Bight has detected its first whale species, and it's a really big ...
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July 28, 2016 Even if people completely stopped converting tropical forests into farmland, the impacts of tropical deforestation would continue to be felt for many years to come. That's the conclusion of ...
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July 27, 2016 As palm oil production expands from Southeast Asia into the Americas and Africa, vulnerable tropical forests and species on four continents face increased risk of loss, a new study finds. The largest ...
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July 27, 2016 A team of conservation biologists is calling for a worldwide strategy to prevent the unthinkable: the extinction of the world's largest mammal ...
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July 27, 2016 A decision by the US Fish and Wildlife Service to remove the gray wolf from protection under the US Endangered Species Act may be made as early as this fall. Research presents strong evidence that ...
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July 27, 2016 Food availability and disease in created habitats may affect the reproductive output of reintroduced frogs, according to a new ...
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