Cancer strikes animals due to environmental pollution, which may affect human...
In 1996, Dr. Frances Gulland, the director of veterinary science at the Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito, and colleagues at the University of California, Davis, found that a striking 18 percent of...
View ArticleThree of the thresholds for key environmental processes set by scientists...
Scientists have set thresholds for key environmental processes that, if crossed, could threaten Earth’s habitability. Ominously, three of the thresholds - biodiversity loss, nitrogen pollution, and...
View ArticleWorld needs ‘bailout plan’ for species loss: International Union for...
Facing what many scientists say is the sixth mass extinction in half-a-billion years, our planet urgently needs a “bailout plan” to protect its biodiversity, a top conservation group said Thursday....
View ArticleThird of plants and animals ‘at risk of extinction’
While Western countries are increasingly aware of the need to protect endangered species, the developing world’s appetite for raw materials is destroying vulnerable ecosystems. Population growth,...
View ArticleQuarter of UK’s endangered species ‘declining despite government action’
The Government is part of an international treaty to stop global biodiversity loss by 2010 in order to protect hundreds of endangered species like the bumblebee, common toad and house sparrow. But an...
View ArticleMammoths contributed to global warming with methane emissions
Together with other large plant-eating mammals that are now extinct, they released around 9.6 million tonnes of the gas each year, experts estimated. When the ”megafauna” disappeared there was a...
View Article30,000 kinds of plants, 5,000 animals threatened with extinction, disappear...
Habitat destruction, over-exploitation of resources, environmental quality degradation and invasive species are causing the extinction of species “Disaster Quartet”, and human activity is the current...
View ArticleSmall mammals at risk as world warms
The biodiversity of small mammals in North America may already be close to a “tipping point” causing impacts “up and down the food chain” according to a new study by U.S. scientists. Examining fossils...
View ArticleStarvation, thirst kill many antelope in Jodhpur
The antelope, including chinkaras and black bucks, continue to die at regular intervals in the arid region of Jodhpur and Barmer. This has been primarily attributed to starvation and thirst, say...
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Malians mobilise to protect dwindling elephants
A desert elephant walks in the north of Mali, known as the Gourma area. Inhabitants of the Gourma region of Mali have organized vigilante brigades, and even attached global positioning systems (GPS) on...
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