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How Humans Are Still Evolving Avoid Extinction
2015-03-15 12:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Daily Best: As humans accelerate our impact on the earth and on ourselves, will 50,000 years of self-evolution both destroy and save us? Humans may be approaching a dodo moment of truth, a nexus where we either adapt to rapid changes in our environment, or go extinct.(The dodo being the flightless, goofy-beaked bird native to the island of Mauritius obliterated by hungry European sailors during a few decades in the 1600s.) Unlike the dodo, however, humans...
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Pollinating Birds, Mammals Falling Victim to Extinction
2015-03-13 18:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environment News Service: It`s not just bees, the world is losing its pollinating birds and mammals, new research shows. More pollinating bird and mammal species are moving towards extinction than away from it, finds the first global assessment of trends in pollinators. About 90 percent of flowering plants are pollinated by animals and birds, and humans rely on many of these plant species for food, livestock forage, medicine and materials. Allen`s hummingbird pollinates flowers in Santa Anita, California, 2013 (Photo...
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Gas-Guzzlers Are On The Road To Extinction
2015-02-19 23:24:56| Auto Dealers - Topix.net
Once upon a time, it was common to find new cars with fuel economy ratings of just 12 or 15 miles per gallon. According to the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute, though, those vehicles are much, much harder to come by today.
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Racing Extinction: A Must-See Documentary of 2015, World Premier at Sundance
2015-01-30 17:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah is one of the largest independent film festivals in the world, attracting some 50,000 attendees. This years festival, its 31st anniversary, runs from Jan. 22 to Feb. 1. Robert Redford, founder of Sundance and a longtime environmental activist, sat down with Democracy Now!s Amy Goodman yesterday to discuss this years festival and pressing environmental issues, including the Keystone XL pipeline. The festival always has a solid showing of environmental films...
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Ocean Life Faces Mass Extinction, Broad Study Says
2015-01-16 11:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: A team of scientists, in a groundbreaking analysis of data from hundreds of sources, has concluded that humans are on the verge of causing unprecedented damage to the oceans and the animals living in them. We may be sitting on a precipice of a major extinction event, said Douglas J. McCauley, an ecologist at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and an author of the new research, which was published on Thursday in the journal Science. But there is still time to avert catastrophe, Dr. McCauley...
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