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scienceblogs.com The island of Camiguin, created by seven volcanoes (one is still active) is only 265 square kilometers (102 square miles) in size. This island is the smallest of the Philippine island group that is known to support endemic vertebrate species. There are approximately 7,000 islands in the Philippines. Camiguin has always been isolated from [...]

Beijing – For the first time a giant panda born and raised in captivity will be released into the wild Friday by researchers in China. Four-year-old Xiang Xiang was fitted with a collar containing a global positioning device to track him as he wanders the remote mountain region surrounding the Wolong Giant Panda Research Centre [...]

www.birds.cornell.edu Long believed to be extinct, a magnificent bird–the Ivory-billed Woodpecker–has been rediscovered in the Big Woods of eastern Arkansas. More than 60 years after the last confirmed sighting of the species in the United States, a research team announced that at least one male ivory-bill still survives in vast areas of bottomland swamp forest. [...]

Associated Press AP reported by SETH BORENSTEIN that in the month of August, most of the United States will see “above normal temperatures,” forecasters say. For the long-term future, the world will see more and worse killer heat waves because of global warming, scientists say. The July burst of killer heat waves around the world [...]