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Elephants could vanish from one of Africa's key reserves within six years

2016-06-01 11:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: Elephants could disappear from one of Africas most important wildlife reserves within six years unless industrial scale poaching is stopped and mining is brought under control, the WWF has said. Selous national park, a world heritage site in southern Tanzania, has lost an average of almost 2,500 elephants a year since the 1970s. But it has now reached a crtitical stage with only about 15,000 left, according to the latest census. The population is at an historic low. and urgent measures are...

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As Kenya forests - and rainfall - vanish, communities dig in to help

2016-05-30 13:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: Kenya needs to take urgent action to combat degradation of key forests, for the sake of its environment and its economy, experts say. The countrys forests, ranging from mountain rainforests to savannah woodlands, coastal forests and mangroves, are under pressure due to high demand for land and resources from the countrys growing population. An estimated 50,000 hectares (200 square miles) of forest is cleared annually, with a consequent yearly loss to the economy of over $19 million, according...

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These electronics can monitor the brain, then dissolve and vanish

2016-01-27 17:00:41| Extremetech

Researchers have found a method of introducing electronic sensors into the bloodstream, with the goal of monitoring swelling and damage from within the brain itself. If successful, these types of probes could guide patient treatment and improve results.

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Billions of Barrels of Oil Vanish in a Puff of Accounting Smoke

2015-12-10 06:30:58| Oil & Gas - Topix.net

Connecting decision makers to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas, Bloomberg quickly and accurately delivers business and financial information, news and insight around the world. In an instant, Chesapeake Energy Corp. will erase the equivalent of 1.1 billion barrels of oil from its books.

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