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Threat to frogs may be sign of worse to come some Kansas scientists say
2014-05-26 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Wichita Eagle: A bullfrog peers out from the shallows in a Kansas wetlands area. Rafe Brown on Monday will head from Lawrence, where he teaches herpetology and other subjects at the University of Kansas. He'll go to islands in the Philippines, where, among other things, he'll catch frogs. With other scientists, he'll tramp through jungles and climb volcanic island mountains looking for frogs, toads and other creatures of nature. For scientists like him, studying frogs is not some sort of offbeat hobby....
Climate Change Cause Of Coqui Frog's Altered Calls
2014-04-16 22:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
RedOrbit: Changes in the Puerto Rican climate over the past three decades have caused small but significant changes to the coqui frog, the territory`s national animal. UCLA biologists have found that not only have male coquis become smaller, but their mating call has also become shorter and higher pitched. Authored by Peter Narins, UCLA distinguished professor of integrative biology and physiology and of ecology and evolutionary biology, and Sebastiaan Meenderink, a UCLA physics researcher, the study examined...
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In South American Highlands, Disease is Killing Frogs While Climate Change Threats Loom
2013-12-14 00:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: A study of declining frog populations in the Andes Mountains reveals that disease is accelerating their death. A deadly fungus is striking the mountain frogs, which San Francisco State University professor Vance Vredenburg said is notable because it's not the cause of death many had suspected. Increasing temperatures, even at the high altitudes of the Andes, were initially believed to play a role in the frogs' death. Vredenburg and his colleagues found that frogs living at higher elevations...
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Cambridge Arts Theatre hosts this year's Greek play: Prometheus and The Frogs
2013-10-09 11:54:05| Steel - Topix.net
Every three years Cambridge University performs a play in Greek at the Arts Theatre, a tradition that burbled into life in 1882, and this year it's a double bill of comedy and tragedy with Prometheus and The Frogs.
Pesticides contaminating frogs in California's national parks
2013-07-26 18:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LiveScience: Pesticides from California's valley farms are collecting in the tissues of a singing treefrog that lives in pristine national parks, including Yosemite and Giant Sequoia, a new study finds. The chemicals include two fungicides never before found in wild frogs, said Kelly Smalling, lead study author and a U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) research hydrologist. The study was published today (July 26) in the journal Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. "Fungicides have been registered for use for...
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