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News @ Nature Even for a society jaded by the continual breaking of climate records, the retreat of Arctic ice this year is stunning. Sea-ice extent — the total number of 25 x 25 kilometer square sections of ocean covered by at least 15% ice — in the Arctic Ocean melts from about 16 million [...]

A follow up article on the Arctic Vault that we posted about sometime back. ====== reuters : : The project is at the heart of an effort by Fowler’s foundation, the Global Crop Diversity Trust, to safeguard strains of 21 essential crops, such as wheat, barley and rice. Rice alone exists in about 120,000 different [...]

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reuters At least 20 tigers have resurfaced in a tropical rainforest in western India, almost three decades after it was thought that poaching had wiped them out there, experts said on Tuesday. The big cats were sighted over an 800 square kilometer (300 square miles) mountainous forest range in the western state of Maharashtra, bringing [...]

IFAW Good news for whales arrives this week as an Icelandic government official was quoted as saying there is no reason to continue commercial whaling in Iceland if there is no demand for the product. This message, coming from fisheries minister Einar K. Gudfinnsson signals a possible end to commercial whaling in the country. IFAW [...]