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Wed, 08 Feb 2012 07:41:20 -0800
The world's richest forest, in plant species, loses its animals to unchecked hunting and surrounding development.
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Wed, 08 Feb 2012 05:51:16 -0800
In many ways, soil is fundamental to life. Flora and fauna depend on its presence for their survival as much as they depend on water and air. In order to sustain its soil content, an ecosystem needs to maintain a balance between rates of soil erosion and soil production. Factors such as tectonic plate movement or climate change can tip this balance, and learning how such changes affect soil ...
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Mon, 23 Jan 2012 07:43:51 -0800
One of the great puzzles in science has been the evolution of single-celled organisms into the incredibly wide variety of flora and fauna that we see today. How did Earth make the transition from an initially lifeless ball of rock to one populated only by single-celled organisms to a world teeming with more complex life? [...]
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Wed, 18 Jan 2012 10:55:55 -0800
More than half of the 19,232 species newly known to science in 2009, the most recent calendar year of compilation, were insects – 9,738 or 50.6 percent – according to the 2011 State of Observed Species (SOS) report released Jan. 18 by the International Institute for Species Exploration at Arizona State University.
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Sun, 22 Jan 2012 10:35:40 -0800
All ISS systems continue to function nominally, except those noted previously or below. Saturday - Crew off duty. Sleep Cycle Shift: Wake - 6:00am; Sleep - 4:30pm EST. Tomorrow: Return to nominal.
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Sun, 15 Jan 2012 08:28:25 -0800
Compiled by an ardent bibliophile, this weekly report lists books about Belize's Mayan forests, venomous reptiles, deer and several insect field guides that are hot-off-the-presses in North America and the UK Books to the ceiling, Books to the sky, My pile of books is a mile high. How I love them! How I need them! I'll have a long beard by the time I read them. ~ Arnold Lobel [1933-1987] author ...
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Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:50:11 -0800
Snow leopards are one of the most elusive cats on Earth, so conservationists were surprised ... and a bit amused ... to watch snow leopard cubs make off with a remote camera in Tajikistan.
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Sun, 15 Jan 2012 06:09:30 -0800
The Pinelands region lost a devoted proponent of conservation when Howard Boyd passed away Dec. 20, at the age of 97. Boyd dedicated more than 65 years of his life to study about and preservation of the Pine Barrens of New Jersey. He was a life-long learner and also an educator, author, entomologist, botanist, photographer, filmmaker and naturalist.
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Sun, 22 Jan 2012 20:28:49 -0800
A scientific expedition to the high mountains of Tajikistan near the Afghan border has returned with a huge haul of photos of the elusive snow leopard and a fresh resolve to protect the area from poaching and degradation.
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Tue, 10 Jan 2012 15:03:10 -0800
Pummeled by relentless wind and rain, the Chukchi Sea was churning with huge waves. After exploring Wrangel Island in the Russian High Arctic, I was in my cabin on the Heritage Expeditions ship, Professor Khromov, as we headed south toward the Siberian mainland.
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