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Will auto dealers become an endangered species?
2015-05-28 18:26:22| Auto Dealers - Topix.net
The advent of self-driving cars could slash sales of new vehicles produced by Ford Motor Co., shown above on a storage lot in Ypsilanti, Mich., and other automakers. The advent of self-driving cars could slash sales of new vehicles produced by Ford Motor Co., shown above on a storage lot in Ypsilanti, Mich., and other automakers.
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Endangered corals smothered by sponges on overfished Caribbean reefs
2015-04-28 12:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] For reef-building corals, sponges do not make good neighbors. Aggressive competitors for space, sponges use toxins, mucus, shading, and smothering to kill adjacent coral colonies and then grow on their skeletons. A recent survey of coral reefs across the Caribbean shows that overfishing removes the predators of sponges, greatly increasing the threat of fast-growing sponges to an already diminished population of corals. A research team headed by Dr. Joseph Pawlik at U…
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Climate Change Means This Tree May Soon Become Endangered Species
2015-04-11 23:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
io9: According to the Seattle Times, the groups that petitioned to protect the yellow cedar are pleased with the announcement, which came on Thursday. The decision is great news for the Tongass National Forest and for yellow cedar, said Rebecca Noblin, an attorney in Anchorage for the Center for Biological Diversity, one of the groups that petitioned to list the tree. Were losing yellow cedar rapidly to climate change, and if we dont start addressing our greenhouse gas emissions, were going...
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Genome of Highly Endangered Pygmy Hog Sequenced
2015-03-30 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
NETHERLANDS and INDIA - Within an unique collaboration between the Animal Breeding and Genomic Centre of Wageningen UR and The Pygmy Hog Conservation Programme in India, the genomes of six individuals of this highly endangered wild pig species have been sequenced.
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Endangered chimp habitat under threat from climate change
2015-01-22 21:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Climate change could make life more difficult for the worlds rarest chimpanzee subspecies, reported a team of scientists in the journal BMC Evolutionary Biology on Tuesday. The range of the Nigeria-Cameroon chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes ellioti) spans the border of its namesake countries, and it inhabits mountain rainforests as well as the transition zone between the forest and the savanna what scientists call an ecotone. About half of the 6,000 remaining Nigeria-Cameroon chimpanzees live in...
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