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University of Florida, IFAS Coral might be the slowest-growing crop ever farmed by the University of Florida, but researchers say damaged reefs could be repaired faster if they perfect methods to cultivate the marine organisms. UF experts are raising seven species of coral at the Tropical Aquaculture Laboratory in Ruskin, and next week they’ll dive [...]

Discovery Channel IUCN Red list The number of threatened animal and plant species has exceeded 16,000 for the first time, a new environmental report said Tuesday. The 16,119 species facing extinction largely due to the deterioration of their natural habitat include hippopotamus, polar bears, desert gazelles, species of freshwater fish and Mediterranean flowers, the World [...]

Not yet. There are no such day in the world calendar just yet. However, the good people from the “Tree Theatre Group” are advocating for the creation of a WORLD TREE DAY . Below is the message from them,www.worldtreeday.org/ WHY WE NEED A WORLD TREE DAY? A Message from the Tree Theatre Group We must [...]

reuters The diamondback terrapin, a turtle species that lives on the U.S. east coast, is under siege from Asian gourmets and American developers, but now officials and lawmakers are coming to its rescue. Scientists in the Maryland Department of Natural Resources this week proposed to ban capturing the reptile from the Chesapeake Bay, where thousands [...]

WWF Scientists have discovered that the clouded leopard found on the islands of Borneo and Sumatra is an entirely new species of cat. The secretive rainforest animal was originally thought to be the same species as the one found in mainland South-east Asia. The news comes just a few weeks after a WWF report showed [...]

AP One of the world’s top scientists on global warming called for the United States to stop building coal-fired power plants and eventually bulldoze older generators that don’t capture and bury greenhouse gases. But 159 coal-fired power plants are scheduled to be built in the next decade or so, generating enough power for about 96 [...]

bbc earthfiles Norway is starting construction on a “doomsday vault” in the Arctic which is designed to house all known varieties of the world’s crops. Dug into a frozen mountainside on the island of Svalbard, it is hoped the project will safeguard crop diversity in the event of a global catastrophe. More than 100 countries [...]

msnbc Twenty new species of sharks and rays have been discovered in Indonesia during a five-year survey of catches at local fish markets, Australian researchers said Wednesday. The survey by the Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, or CSIRO, represents the first in-depth look at Indonesia’s sharks and rays since Dutch scientist Pieter Bleeker [...]

National Geographic A potentially new species of shrimplike crustacean in the genus Epimeria was found near Elephant Island in Antarctica, scientists announced on Sunday. The 1-inch-long (2.5-centimeter-long) creature was among nearly a thousand species collected during the first biological survey of a 3,860-square-mile (10,000-square-kilometer) section of the sea that was once covered by thick polar [...]