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Global Warming Didn't Kill the Golden Toad
2010/03/02
The golden toad was last seen in 1989 in the Costa Rican cloud forest of Monteverde—and 5 years later, its disappearance was the first extinction to be blamed on humanmade global warming. New evidence, however, suggests that humans may not have been at fa
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Global Warming Warps Marine Food Webs
2009/08/27
Teasing apart the complex ways in which global warming will affect ocean life has been tough. But new research suggests that a simple ecological theory may explain at least one piece of the puzzle: the effect on marine food webs.
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How Do You Hide a 5-Ton Shark?
2009/05/12
Every summer, hundreds of basking sharks emerge off the northeast coast of the United States. But by winter, the world's second-largest fish seems to vanish. Now, researchers have used satellites to solve the mystery of the basking sharks' winter home.
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Grazing limits effects of ocean fertilization
2009/04/02
Preliminary results from a controversial Indo–German ocean fertilization experiment (LOHAFEX) have cast doubt on whether stimulating algal growth can help the sea sequester substantial amounts of carbon dioxide.
Nature News
Nile run-off 'boosts fish stocks'
2009/01/22
A team of researchers found that the dramatic increase in fish populations coincided with a sharp rise in the amount of fertilisers used by farmers.
BBC
Pushing the modelling envelope
2008/09/16
Estimates of the impact climate change will have on wildlife may be much less reliable than thought, according to research that is reopening debate over a widely used modelling method endorsed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
Nature News
Old forests capture plenty of carbon
2008/09/11
Old forests continue to accumulate carbon at a much greater rate than researchers had previously thought, making them more important as carbon sinks that must be factored into global climate models, researchers say.
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Sonar does affect whales, military report confirms
2008/08/04
Whales subjected to military sonar will neither dive nor feed, according to an unpublished 2007 report from the UK military, obtained by Nature after a request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
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Condemned to single-sex life by climate change
2008/07/03
Rising temperatures look set to produce male-only offspring in the tuatara, condemning the ancient reptile species to extinction by 2085, computer modelling predicts.
Nature News
Right whales wronged
2008/04/14
The rising tide of global fossil-fuel prices is set to heighten the conflict between the US oil and gas industry and the interests of migratory whales, after two federal announcements both laid claim to the same piece of the chilly Bering Sea.
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