May 2008
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“My idea was to convey to the public that just as we talk about deforestation—a...”
– Rodolfo Dirzo, ecologist at Stanford University, in a fascinating interview with Rhett A. Butler of Mongabay.com. Dr. Dirzo, Butler writes, “says that the disappearance of wildlife due to overexploitation, fragmentation, and habitat degradation is causing ecological changes in some of the...
May 30th
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May 28th
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WatchWatch
Bringing back the Tasmanian Tiger: Reviving extinct DNA The Jurassic Park fantasy may someday become reality, and give us new weapons in the fight to preserve wildlife, restore biodiversity, and restore some of the species lost to human-caused extinction. Here, exploring the possibility of resurrecting Thylacinus cynocephalus.   [via meganmcardle.theatlantic.com] 
May 28th
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Is Global Warming Hogging All the Attention? [And...
Check out “The Question of Global Warming,” an essay by Freeman Dyson in the June 12 issue of The New York Review of Books. While agreeing that global warming is a serious problem, Dyson has long been a “heretic” or skeptic of claims that climate change is the biggest danger facing the planet. While his most recent essay is a critique of two recent books on global warming, its conclusion is, to...
May 27th
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Beavers to return to Scotland after 400 years →
Four beaver families will be caught in Norway and released in Argyll next spring. Hot dam!
May 26th
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May 1st