Photo: Wild Wonders of Europe A black-winged kite bird closes in on its prey — a terrified mouse — in a field in Spain. This is just one of the dangers hitting the animal world this week: We also have a brave house cat that takes on an alligator, threats of extinction from natural causes, and a loud ocean that’s forcing whales to shout.
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The Week in Animal News: Doomed Mouse, Cat Bitch-slaps Alligator, and More (Slideshow)
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Photo via ~jjjohn~ You like to-may-toes and I like to-mah-toes Up until recently, botanists believed that there to be over one million types of flowering plants on Earth, but now about 600 thousand of those species my soon be cut from the list — but extinction’s not to blame this time. It turns out that after decades of cataloging plants from around the world, there… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Researchers Cut 600,000 Names From Global Plant List
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What do you guys think of this? I had to watch this in my economics class. added by: Jake_Leonard
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This is the tenth installment of the Monsanto Roundup that seeks to keep you informed about news of the GM world and its effects on your environment and health. Some important stories regarding our biodiversity are in this edititon: * First Strong Evidence Of GM Plants Growing In The Wild In The U.S. * Federal Court Rescinds USDA Approval of Genetically Engineered Sugarbeets * Gates Foundation and Cargill Paper To Force Soy Monoculture Into Africa Other sidenotes: Crops pulled up in Italy Gm grapevines pulled up in France BT eggplant protested in the Philippines DNA from transgenic plants found in milk and animal tissue Jeffrey Smith spills the beans about GMOS And various tidbits about this most important topic which the media is seriously remiss about in dessiminating this information to the public at large… plus a few other messages. 😉 Thanks for supporting this monthly feature of the Sustainable Agriculture Group on Current. added by: JanforGore
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Photo via The Daily Mail The ocean’s whales are some of the Earth’s most massive and majestic animals, reaching sizes of up to 80 feet long and 150 tons. As the targets of centuries of whaling, they have a violent history — and are still recovering from an industry that depleted their numbers substantially. But while whales can be aggressive at times, they are more often gentle, curious creatures — and likely to check out foreign objects in the water, including boats and photographers.
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Curious Whales Check Out Photographers with Stunning Results (Slideshow)
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The ocean is full of uncharted territory — and of breathtaking natural wonders that look like they’d be more at home on Pandora than in the blue depths just off the beach where you spent your summer vacation. These stunning underwater plants offer an ethereal beauty hard to reproduce on land. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Stunning Underwater Plants on the Ocean Floor (Slideshow)
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Images: London Fieldworks Rapid urbanization and widespread habitat destruction stemming from human activities are negatively impacting wildlife populations as never before. City-dwelling birds, which are an integral part of urban ecologies, are no exception. As this thought-provoking ‘mass bird-housing’ installation by eco-artist collective London Fieldworks shows (more photos after the j… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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‘Spontaneous City’ of Birdhouses Springs Up in London
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Logged forest on left, unlogged forest on right… photo: Wakx via flickr Conventional political wisdom on rainforest degradation is that once you’ve logged an area once, or even twice, removing the largest most valuable trees, the forest becomes degraded to the point that biodiversity losses make it not worth protecting. In Borneo, often the land is turned over to plantation agriculture. A new study in
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Even Logged Rainforest Holds High Biodiversity Levels & Is Worth Protecting: Study
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photo: Felix Francis An interesting new piece in the journal Paleobiology on what gives the tropics their amazing biodiversity provides insight both into the past and poses questions as to what the future may hold as the world continues to warm. As it turns out, its the consistent year-round temperatures and not hot weather or more sunlight that’s the k… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Consistent Seasonal Temperatures, Not Just Hot Weather, Cause of High Tropical Biodiversity
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The latest report from the UN-supported The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity project has been released, this time examining how businesses need to start addressing biodiversity loss and better appreciate the value of ecosystem services –those natural planetary functions, such as pollinating insects, that would other… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Businesses & Consumers Just Beginning to Recognize Economic Cost of Biodiversity Loss
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