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Climate Change a Bigger Extinction Threat than Asteroids
2013-02-16 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: As teaching moments go, it doesn't get much better than this. NASA scientists have known for nearly a year that a small asteroid called 2012 DA14, about 150 ft. across, would whiz past Earth at the nail-biting distance of 17,000 miles or so -- significantly closer than the 22,500-mile altitude occupied by geosynchronous satellites. It happened right on schedule on Friday morning, with no consequences at all for Earth. But nobody had a clue that a space rock about a third as large would scream...
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Fifth of reptiles facing extinction
2013-02-15 13:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: The Zoological Society of London says nearly a fifth of the world's reptiles are facing extinction. In a study of reptiles including crocodiles, lizards, snakes, tortoises and turtles, researchers found that half of freshwater turtles are close to extinction while the jungle runner lizard may already have died out. Dr Monika Bohm, lead author of the paper written with the IUCN Species Survival Commission, spoke to BBC Radio 5 live Breakfast.
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