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<pubDate>Sun, 15 Oct 2008 12:58:39 -0800</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Coral susceptibility to bleaching due to small differences in symbiotic relationship]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Coral reefs are now considered the second most threatened group of animals in the world, with nearly one-third of corals listed as endangered (amphibians retain the dubious honor of being number one).  Although corals face many threats, the greatest is bleaching caused by warming oceans due to climate change.  However, some coral populations are more susceptible to bleaching than others, even including corals of the same species.  New research has uncovered that the reason lies in small differences in the symbiotic relationship between corals and their symbionts, small marine animals and protozoa.  Such differences, however miniscule, have a huge impact on the likelihood of a coral's ability to survive warming oceans.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Moving species may be only way to save them from climate change]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Desperate times call for desperate measures, according to a new paper in Science.  conservation scientists from the US, the UK, and Australia are calling for the consideration of a highly controversial conservation technique: assisted migration.  According to the policy piece, species would be relocated to sites "where they do not currently occur or have not been known to occur in recent history".]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Birds face higher risk of extinction than conventionally thought]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Birds may face higher risk of extinction than conventionally thought, says a bird ecology and conservation expert from Stanford University. Dr. Cagan H. Sekercioglu, a senior research scientist at Stanford and head of the world's largest tropical bird radio tracking project, estimates that 15 percent of world's 10,000 bird species will go extinct or be committed to extinction by 2100 if necessary conservation measures are not taken. While birds are one of the least threatened of any major group of organisms, Sekercioglu believes that worst-case climate change, habitat loss, and other factors could conspire to double this proportion by the end of the century. As dire as this sounds, Sekercioglu says that many threatened birds are rarer than we think and nearly 80 percent of land birds predicted to go extinct from climate change are not currently considered threatened with extinction, suggesting that species loss may be far worse than previously imagined. At particular risk are marine species and specialists in mountain habitats.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[1/3 of corals face extinction]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Nearly one-third of reef-building corals are vulnerable to extinction, according to an assessment of 845 species of coral.  Rising temperatures, increased incidence of disease, and human disturbance are driving the trend.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Humans, and global warming, responsible for extinction of mammoths]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The combination of human hunting pressure and climate change was responsible for the extinction in woolly mammoths, claims new research published in the open-access journal <i>PLoS Biology</i>. Scientists have long debated whether climate change or human hunting were the more important driver in the demise of North America's megafauna towards the end of the last Ice Age.  Now new modeling by David Nogues-Bravo, a biologist at the National Museum of Natural Sciences in Madrid, Spain, and colleagues supports the theory that synergistic effects of warming climate and new human predators drove mammoths to extinction.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Global warming will significantly increase bird extinctions]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Where do you go when you've reached the top of a mountain and you can't go back down? It's a question increasingly relevant to plants and animals, as their habitats slowly shift to higher elevations, driven by rising temperatures worldwide. The answer, unfortunately, is you can't go anywhere. Habitats shrink to the vanishing point, and species go extinct. That scenario is likely to be played out repeatedly and at an accelerating rate as the world continues to warm, Stanford researchers say.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/1205-birds.html</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2007 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Global warming may provoke evolution]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Some 80 million years ago, during a period of global warming, a group of relatively immobile salamanders trekked from western North America to the continent that became Asia, report researchers writing in this week's issue of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Science.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 26 Nov 2007 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Mass extinctions happen when temperatures are the warmest]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Warming temperatures could trigger a mass extinction event, warn scientists writing in the latest issue of Proceedings of the Royal Society B. Comparing ancient records of marine and terrestrial diversity with historical temperature estimates, researchers from the Universities of York and Leeds found a close correlation between Earth climate and extinctions over the past 520 million years: higher extinction rates occur at higher temperatures.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 24 Oct 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[European blood-sucker falls victim to global warming]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Europe's only known land leech may be on the brink of extinction due to shifts in climate, report researchers writing in the journal Naturwissenschaften.  The findings are significant because they suggest that "human-induced climate change without apparent habitat destruction can lead to the extinction of populations of cold-adapted species that have a low colonization ability," according to the authors.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 26 Aug 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Climate change claims a snail]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The Aldabra banded snail (Rachistia aldabrae), a rare and poorly known species found only on Aldabra atoll in the Indian Ocean, has apparently gone extinct due to declining rainfall in its niche habitat.  While some may question lamenting the loss of a lowly algae-feeding gastropod on some unheard of chain of tropical islands, its unheralded passing is nevertheless important for the simple reason that Rachistia aldabrae may be a pioneer.  As climate change increasingly brings local and regional shifts in precipitation and temperature, other species are expected to follow in its path.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 12 Aug 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[10-20% of birds extinct by 2100 due to global warming, deforestation]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Ten to twenty percent of the world's terrestrial bird species could be threatened with extinction by 2100 due to climate change and habitat destruction reports a study published in the June 5 issue of the journal PLoS Biology.  The numbers are in line with estimates published last year in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Combining future projections on global warming, agricultural expansion and human population growth from the global Millennium Ecosystem Assessment with current geographic ranges of the world's 8,750 species of terrestrial birds, researchers Walter Jetz, David Wilcove, and Andrew Dobson estimate that 950 to 1800 species may be condemned to extinction by 2100.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0604-birds.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jun 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Climate change leaving amphibians behind in extinction race]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Despite surviving the age of dinosaurs and numerous bouts of severe climate change, amphibians are not keeping pace with the current rate of global change, reports a new study published in the journal Bioscience.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Protected areas must be adapted to survive global warming]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Protected areas can play an important role in reducing biodiversity loss due to global warming, reports a new study published March 30 in the journal Frontiers in Environment and Ecology (FREE).  The research says that conservation efforts must factor in shifts in species' ranges to be successful.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0403-ci.html</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Global warming could hurt salmon fisheries in Pacific Northwest]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Global warming could cause Chinook salmon populations in Washington state to decline 20-40 percent by 2050 according to a new study published in the online early edition of PNAS.  The researchers urge policymakers to focus on restoration of lower elevation habitats in order to reduce the expected impact of climate change on salmon populations.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0402-salmon.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Extinction, like climate change, is complicated]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Extinction is a hotly debated, but poorly understood topic in science. The same goes for climate change. When scientists try to forecast the impact of global change on future biodiversity levels, the results are contentious, to say the least. While some argue that species have managed to survive worse climate change in the past and that current threats to biodiversity are overstated, many biologists say the impacts of climate change and resulting shifts in rainfall, temperature, sea levels, ecosystem composition, and food availability will have significant effects on global species richness.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0326-extinction.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Climate change will cause biomes to shift and disappear]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Many of the world's local climates could be radically changed if global warming trends continue, reports a new study published in the early online edition of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The authors warn that current climates may shift and disappear, increasing the risk of biodiversity extinction and other ecological changes.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Extinction risk accelerated when interacting human threats interact]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A new study warns that the simultaneous effect of habitat fragmentation, overexploitation, and climate warming could increase the risk of a species' extinction.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0207-extinction.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 07 Feb 2007 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Past global warming suggests massive temperature shift in our future]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[If past climate change is any indication, Earth could be in store for some significant global warming according to research published in the December 8, 2006, issue of the journal Science.  The work suggests that climate change skeptics may be fighting a losing cause. The study, led by Mark Pagani, associate professor of geology and geophysics at Yale, looked at an episode of rapid climate change that occurred some 55 million years ago.  Known as the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), the period was marked by a rapid rise in greenhouse gases that heated Earth by roughly 9 F (5 C), in less than 10,000 years.  The climate warming caused widespread changes including mass extinction in the world's oceans due to acidification and shifts of plant communities due to changes in rainfall.  The era helped set the stage for the "Age of Mammals," which included the first appearance of modern primates.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 07 Dec 2006 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Fragmentation killing species in the Amazon rainforest]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Forest fragmentation is rapidly eroding biodiversity in the Amazon rainforest and could worsen global warming according to research to be published this week in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. "Rainforest trees can live for centuries, even millennia, so none of us expected things to change too fast. But in just two decades-a wink of time for a thousand year-old tree-the ecosystem has been seriously degraded." said Dr. William Laurance, a scientist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama and leader of the international team of scientists that conducted the research.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2006/1127-stri.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 27 Nov 2006 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Worst mass extinction shifted entire ecology of the world's oceans]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[New research suggests that Earth's greatest mass extinction did more than wipe out an estimated 95% of marine species and 70% of land species; it fundamentally changed the ecology of the world's oceans. The study, published in tomorrow's issue of the journal Science, found that 'ecologically simple marine communities were largely displaced by complex communities', a shift that continues has continue since.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2006/1123-permian.html</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 23 Nov 2006 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Migratory species threatened by global warming]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Urgent action is need to prevent extinction of migratory species due to global warming says a new report from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2006/1119-unep.html</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 19 Nov 2006 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Global warming reduces polar bear survival rate]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Polar bear survival rates have dropped significantly in the past 20 years, probably due to melting sea ice caused by higher temperatures, according to a study released this week.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2006/1115-polar_bear.html</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 16 Nov 2006 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Species evolution not making up for extinction caused by climate change]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Current global warming has already caused extinctions in the world's most sensitive habitats and will continue to cause more species to go extinct over the next 50 to 100 years says a new study published in Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics by a University of Texas at Austin biologist.  The study, Dr. Camille Parmesan, an associate professor of integrative biology, also showed that species are not evolving fast enough to avoid extinction.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2006/1114-extinction.html</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 14 Nov 2006 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Global warming could doom many bird species]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Up to 72 percent of bird species in northeastern Australia and more than a third in Europe could go extinct unless action is taken to address global warming said a report from environmental group WWF. The report, "Bird Species and Climate Change: The Global Status Report", reviews more than 200 scientific articles on birds and identifies groups of birds at high risk from climate change: migratory, mountain, island, wetland, Arctic, Antarctic and seabirds.  It says that species that can easily migrate to new habitats will likely thrive, while birds that live in niche environments may decline.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2006/1113-birds.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Nov 2006 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Climate Change Threatens Lemurs]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Tropical rainforests are among the most stable environments on Earth, but they are still no match for global climate change. Dr. Patricia Wright, the widely admired primatologist and Professor of Anthropology at Stony Brook University, finds that climate change could mean the difference between survival and extinction for endangered lemurs.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2006/0918-earthwatch.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 18 Sep 2006 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Recovery of biodiversity after dinosaurs was chaotic]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The recovery of biodiversity after the end-Cretaceous mass extinction was much more chaotic than previously thought, according to paleontologists. New fossil evidence shows that at certain times and places, plant and insect diversity were severely out of balance, not linked as they are today. The extinction took place 65.5 million years ago. Labeled the K-T extinction, it marks the beginning of the Cenozoic Era and the Paleocene Epoch.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 24 Aug 2006 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Climate change, not hunters, killed ancient Australia's giant kangaroos]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Scientists at the University of Melbourne and La Trobe University have found strong evidence for the cause of the extinction of Australia's giant marsupials some 50,000 years ago. Cold, arid climates of the last ice age have been identified as a likely cause, casting doubt on the alternative hypothesis which blames human hunters.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2006/0816-aus.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 16 Aug 2006 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Most of world's forests could be gone by 2100]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[New research claims that more than half the world's largest forests will be lost if global temperatures rise by an average of 3 degrees or more by the end of the century.The study, published in the current Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, says that a warmer climate also increases the risk of extreme floods, forest fires and droughts.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2006/0815-forests.html</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 15 Aug 2006 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Global Warming Threatens Pollination Timing]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[In addition to the more obvious effects of climate change, such as rising sea levels and increasing storm activity, there is the potential to dramatically alter ecological communities. Dr. David Inouye, director of University of Maryland's graduate program in Sustainable Development and conservation Biology, reports that global warming could disrupt the timing of pollination in alpine environments, with serious negative impacts to both plants and pollinators.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2006/0809-earthwatch.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 09 Aug 2006 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Global Warming Threatens Australia's Tropical Biodiversity]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Global climate change will pose serious challenges for wildlife populations around the world in the coming decades. The findings of Dr. Stephen Williams (Centre for Tropical Biodiversity and Climate Change, James Cook University) suggest that endemic wildlife populations in Australia's Wet Tropics World Heritage Area will be particularly vulnerable to the local warming trend.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2006/0725-earthwatch.html</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jul 2006 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[1250 bird species may be extinct by 2100]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Two new studies paint a mixed future for the world's bird populations, one suggesting that 12 percent of existing species could be extinct by 2100 and the other finding shifts in migration patterns among birds that migrate long distances.  Researchers at Stanford University, Duke University and the Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis examined the extinction record for birds and found that scientists have likely underestimated the number of extinctions.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2006/0704-birds.html</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jul 2006 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[16,119 species at risk of extinction]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The number of known threatened species reaches 16,119. The ranks of those facing extinction are joined by familiar species like the polar bear, hippopotamus and desert gazelles; together with ocean sharks, freshwater fish and Mediterranean flowers. Positive action has helped the white-tailed eagle and offers a glimmer of hope to Indian vultures. The total number of species declared officially Extinct is 784 and a further 65 are only found in captivity or cultivation. Of the 40,177 species assessed using the IUCN Red List criteria, 16,119 are now listed as threatened with extinction. This includes one in three amphibians and a quarter of the world's coniferous trees, on top of the one in eight birds and one in four mammals known to be in jeopardy]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2006/0502-redlist.html</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 02 May 2006 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Climate change is serious threat to biodiversity]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The Earth could see massive waves of species extinctions around the world if global warming continues unabated, according to a new study published in the scientific journal conservation Biology.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2006/0410-ci.html</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 11 Apr 2006 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Climate change threatens coldwater reefs]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Increasing amounts of atmospheric carbon dioxide, driven by the burning of fossil fuels, are dissolving into the oceans, causing them to become slightly more acidic. This change in seawater chemistry could harm deep-sea calcifying animals like corals.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2006/0403-esa.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 03 Apr 2006 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Does tropical biodiversity increase during global warming?]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Forest fragmentation may cause biodiversity loss lasting millions of years according to a new study published in the March 31, 2006 issue of the journal Science.  Using cores drilled through 5 kilometers of rock in eastern Colombia and western Venezuela, Carlos Jaramillo of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) in Panama and a team of researchers derived a fossil pollen record for a 72 million-year period with samples ranging from 10 to 82 million years ago.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2006/0330-stri.html</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 30 Mar 2006 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Past mass extinction events linked to climate change]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Most mass extinctions were caused by gradual climate change rather than catastrophic asteroid impacts says Peter Ward, a paleontologist at the University of Washington in Seattle, in an upcoming article in New Scientist magazine.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2006/0329-extinction.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 29 Mar 2006 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<source url="http://www.mongabay.com/">Mongabay.com</source>
<guid>http://news.mongabay.com/2006/0329-extinction.html</guid>
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<title><![CDATA[Global biological diversity in decline]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Global biological diversity is increasingly threatened according to a report released by at the outset of the largest biodiversity conference in more than a decade. More than 3000 delegates and 100 government ministers have gathered in Curitiba, Brazil at the eighth Convention on Biological Diversity to discuss the outlook for Earth's species.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2006/0320-biodiv.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 20 Mar 2006 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<source url="http://www.mongabay.com/">Mongabay.com</source>
<guid>http://news.mongabay.com/2006/0320-biodiv.html</guid>
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<title><![CDATA[New extinction hotspots identified]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Scientists have identified 20 potential extinction hotspots where hunting and human-caused habitat destruction are set to suffer significant declines in animal populations in coming years.  In developing their map of future extinction hotspots, the researchers analyzed current and predicted IUCN Red List data on the extinction risk to almost 4,000 species of land mammals.  Their roster includes areas not typically found on lists of the world's most imperiled habitats, including Greenland, the Patagonian coast of South America, and Siberian tundra.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2006/0307-extinction_risk.html</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<source url="http://www.mongabay.com/">Mongabay.com</source>
<guid>http://news.mongabay.com/2006/0307-extinction_risk.html</guid>
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<title><![CDATA[Climate change is killing frogs finds new research]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The dramatic global decline of amphibians may be directly connected to global warming warns a new study published in the journal Nature.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2006/0111-frogs.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2006 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<source url="http://www.mongabay.com/">Mongabay.com</source>
<guid>http://news.mongabay.com/2006/0111-frogs.html</guid>
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<title><![CDATA[Extinctions linked to climate change]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A new report that links global warming to the recent extinction of dozens of amphibian species in tropical America is more evidence of a large phenomena that may affect broad regions, many animal species and ultimately humans, according to researchers at Oregon State University.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2006/0111-extinction.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2006 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<source url="http://www.mongabay.com/">Mongabay.com</source>
<guid>http://news.mongabay.com/2006/0111-extinction.html</guid>
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<title><![CDATA[Is Global Warming Killing Polar Bears? -- WSJ]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Today The Wall Street Journal ran an article asking "Is Global Warming Killing the Polar Bears?" The article cited several recent studies that suggest polar bears are increasingly under threat from receding ice and warming temperatures.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2005/1214-polar_bears.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2005 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<source url="http://www.mongabay.com/">Mongabay.com</source>
<guid>http://news.mongabay.com/2005/1214-polar_bears.html</guid>
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<title><![CDATA[Coral reefs decimated by 2050, Great Barrier Reef's coral 95% dead]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Australia's Great Barrier Reef could lose 95 percent of its living coral by 2050 should ocean temperatures increase by the 1.5 degrees Celsius projected by climate scientists. The startling and controversial prediction, made last year in a report commissioned by the World Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF) and the Queensland government, is just one of the dire scenarios forecast for reefs in the near future. The degradation and possible disappearance of these ecosystems would have profound socioeconomic ramifications as well as ecological impacts says Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, head of the University of Queensland's Centre for Marine Studies.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2005/1117-corals.html</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2005 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<source url="http://www.mongabay.com/">Mongabay.com</source>
<guid>http://news.mongabay.com/2005/1117-corals.html</guid>
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<title><![CDATA[Global warming may have triggered worst mass extinction]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A dramatic rise in carbon dioxide 250 million years ago may have caused global temperatures to soar and result in Earth's greatest mass extinction, according to a study published in the September issue of Geology. Global warming, which may have produced temperatures 10 to 30 degrees Celsius higher than today, would have had a significant impact both on oceans, where about 95% of lifeforms became extinct, and on land, where almost 75% of species died out.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2005/0829-permian_triassic.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2005 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<source url="http://www.mongabay.com/">Mongabay.com</source>
<guid>http://news.mongabay.com/2005/0829-permian_triassic.html</guid>
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