Article Archive for 2 October 2006

Climate change may drive lemurs to extinction
By godzilla
Posted in Endangered & Extinction on 2 October 2006
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The Independent Climate change will condemn the already endangered lemurs of Madagascar to extinction, a study shows. Patricia Wright, of Stony Brook University in New York, studied the island’s sifikas lemur over 20 years. She found that even a subtle reduction in rainfall in lemur habitats could cause extinction because they are so reliant on [...]

Site chosen for $155 million ‘Earthpark’
By godzilla
Posted in General, Habitat, Technology on 2 October 2006
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msnbc.msn.com Central Iowa has been chosen as the site for a massive indoor rain forest and environmental learning center that organizers hope will be as successful as its predecessor in the United Kingdom. Earthpark will be built on 70 acres of wooded land overlooking Lake Red Rock near Pella and will be modeled after Eden [...]