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Independent Sir David Attenborough was sceptical about climate change but has since spoke out about how the Earth climate had changed and is changing. Extract: But I’m no longer sceptical. Now I do not have any doubt at all. I think climate change is the major challenge facing the world. I have waited until the [...]

Conservation Frontlines Scientists at Conservation International (CI) report that 46 reptile species native to the Mediterranean Basin Biodiversity Hotspot are facing extinction largely because of ongoing habitat destruction and other human activities. Published this year, the study by 28 leading experts also submitted nearly half of the region’s 355 snake, lizard, and turtle varieties for [...]

http://www.physorg.com/news67521722.html Rainforests and savannas contain 70% of the world plants and are critical to the health of our planet. A new £1.6m international project involving researchers from the Leeds Earth and Biosphere Institute is looking at the impact of global warming on these sensitive areas. The researchers think we may be at the start of [...]

Reuter Elephant trunks and smoked gorilla limbs hang from Emile Ndong’s stall, “ripening” in the tropical heat. : : Finding ways to curtail this industry will be discussed at an international conference in Madagascar from June 20 – 24, which will seek ways to harness Africa’s ecological treasures for development, while also protecting them. : [...]

WWF Rome, Italy: At the start of the commercial fishing season of the bluefin tuna in the Mediterranean, traditional tuna-trap fishermen in southern Spain are facing an unprecedented crisis. Catches are down by a staggering 80 per cent at this time last year, according to the Tuna Trap Producers Association (OPP51). WWF is alarmed that [...]

Once suspected to have extinct due to Global Warming. Professor Carlos Rocha and a team of researchers from the country’s Pedagogical and Technological University (UPTC) crossed paths with a frog no one has seen in 11 years on a recent trek through the Colombian Andes, . Announced this week (17th May 2006), the rediscovery of [...]

The Amazon rainforest has long been recognized as a repository of ecological services not only for local tribes and communities, but also for the rest of the world. It is also the only rainforest that we have left in terms of size and diversity. But as forests burn and global warming worsens, the impact of [...]

Reuter By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent Scientists have found about 10-20 new species of tiny creatures in the depths of the Atlantic in a survey that will gauge whether global warming may harm life in the oceans, an international report said on Thursday. The survey, of tropical waters between the eastern United States and the [...]