The chance discovery of the remains of a prehistoric giant kangaroo has cast doubts on the long-held view that climate change drove it and other mega-fauna to extinction, a new study reveals.
The research, published this week in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, argues that man likely hunted to death the [...]
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Researchers at Durham, the RSPB and Cambridge University have found that birds such as the Cirl Bunting and Dartford Warbler are becoming more common across a wide range of habitats in Britain as temperatures rise.
Unfortunately, some northern species, such as the Fieldfare and Redwing, are not faring quite so well and their numbers are falling.
Researchers [...]
Consider the effect of climate change on animals and it’s the polar bear that invariably comes to mind, majestically astride a thinning ice floe, watching its habitat disappear.
The species is a powerful conservation symbol. But how much is it, and the public’s dawning enviro-consciousness, being cynically exploited because of it?
The story of two German polar [...]
Global warming will allow exotic plants and animals to invade vulnerable Australian ecosystems, the WWF conservation group has warned.
Warmer temperatures will allow feral animals and invasive weeds to gain access to cooler and higher areas where they have not previously been able to exist, according to WWF’s Invasive Species Policy Officer Julie Kirkwood.
“Exotic species [...]
Argentine scientists are taking a novel approach to studying global warming - strapping plastic tanks to the backs of cows to collect their burps and farts.
Researchers say the slow digestive system of cows makes them a producer of methane, a potent greenhouse gas that gets far less public attention than carbon dioxide in efforts to [...]
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A unique species of reptiles that has roamed the Earth since the time of the dinosaurs could soon be wiped out due to climate change.
Global warming is threatening to turn all the ancient creatures into males by 2085.
Tuataras have three eyes and can live for more than 100 years. Their gender is determined in the [...]
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Endangered migratory whales will be faced with shrinking crucial Antarctic foraging zones which will contain less food and will be further away, a new analysis of the impacts of climate change on Southern Ocean whales has found.
A new report* summarises WWF research showing that levels of global warming predicted over the next 40 years will [...]
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Like the proverbial canary in the coal mine, penguins are sounding the alarm for potentially catastrophic changes in the world’s oceans, and the culprit isn’t only climate change, says a University of Washington conservation biologist.
Oil pollution, depletion of fisheries and rampant coastline development that threatens breeding habitat for many penguin species, along with Earth’s warming [...]
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The world’s penguin population is in dramatic decline with more than a fifth of species facing extinction, according to research.
A study warns that the sharp reduction in penguin numbers is symptomatic of “catastrophic changes” occurring in the oceans caused by climate change, as well as damaging human activities such as commercial fishing and [...]
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Exactly 20 years after warning America about global warming, a top NASA scientist said the situation has gotten so bad that the world’s only hope is drastic action.
James Hansen told Congress on Monday that the world has long passed the “dangerous level” for greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and needs to get back to 1988 [...]
