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vietnamnews www.cuon.net Dhole is a species of wild dog thought to have been near extinct, but residents in Cam Chinh Commune, Cam Lo District are reporting more and more sightings of the animal, an indication that the population is finally rebounding. Also known as Cuon Alpinous, the dog virtually disappeared ten years ago and has [...]

www.innovations-report.de The recent retreat of Arctic sea ice is likely to accelerate so rapidly that the Arctic Ocean could become nearly devoid of ice during summertime as early as 2040, according to new research published in the December 12 issue of Geophysical Research Letters. The study, by a team of scientists from the National Center [...]

baiji.org The Baiji Yangtze Dolphin is with all probability extinct.  On Wednesday, in the city of Wuhan in central China, a search expedition, under the direction of the Institute for Hydrobiology Wuhan and the Swiss-based  baiji.org Foundation, drew to a finish without any results.  During the six-week expedition scientists from six nations desperately searched the [...]

bbc The Arctic may be close to a tipping point that sees all-year-round ice disappear very rapidly in the next few decades, US scientists have warned. The latest data presented at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting suggests the ice is no longer showing a robust recovery from the summer melt. : The sea ice [...]

Guardian Unlimited Global warming is creating an ocean famine in swaths of tropical and sub-tropical seas, according to research using nearly a decade of satellite data.The finding, which has long been predicted by computer models, suggests that as warming continues, fish stocks in tropical and sub-tropical regions will drop significantly. The study showed that in [...]

Conservation International The governor of the Brazilian state of Pará today announced seven new protected areas in Amazonia covering an area roughly the size of Illinois. The announcement is an enormous step in Brazil’s world-leading efforts to protect Earth’s remaining tropical rain forests. Stretching from the border of Guyana and Suriname in the north to [...]

www.biologicaldiversity.org Some of the world’s most remarkable birds are threatened by global warming. More than half of the world’s 19 penguin species are in danger of extinction, yet only one, the Galapagos Penguin, is currently listed under the Endangered Species Act. On November 28, 2006, the Center petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to [...]