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Poland Begins Logging Ancient Forest Despite Fierce Protests

2016-05-27 18:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Yale Environment 360: Renata Krzysciak-Kosinska The Bialowieza Forest in Poland. Despite intense protests from environmentalists and scientists, Poland began logging the Bialowieza Forest this week, the last remaining fragment of Europes ancient woodlands and a World Heritage site. The forest, covering more than 350,000 acres, is home to the continents largest population of European bison and 20,000 other wildlife species. Polish officials said the logging is to remove spruce trees dead or dying from a bark beetle infestation,...

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Ancient alien life may be harder to detect than we thought thanks to radiation

2016-05-25 14:24:48| Extremetech

We may have to dig deep to detect the remains of ancient alien life in our solar system.

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Fossil gives clues to ancient extinction

2016-05-23 11:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

BBC: A newly-classified fossil gives clues to how life in the oceans recovered from a mass extinction about 250 million years ago. The reptile is an early relative of the ichthyosaurs - a large group of marine reptiles that swam at the time of the dinosaurs. With its tiny toothless head, the creature is something of a curiosity, say scientists. The specimen suggests marine reptiles evolved quickly after the event. Previous evidence has suggested it took a long time for animals in the seas...

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5 ancient civilizations that were destroyed by climate change

2016-05-12 12:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Mother Nature: As we grapple with climate change, it's important to remember that this isn't the first time climate change has threatened grand, seemingly unstoppable civilizations. The Ancestral Puebloans, also known as the "Anasazi" by the Navajo, are one of the most famous examples of an ancient civilization that collapsed due to climate change. Once dominant across the Colorado Plateau in places like Chaco Canyon and Mesa Verde (pictured), the Ancestral Puebloans abandoned their distinctive homes sometime...

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