Archive for the 'Extinction' Category

This summer saw the second-lowest sea ice levels in the Arctic in the fifty years since they started tracking it.  This ice serves the greater global purpose of moderating weather and temperatures throughout the world.  Less ice equals a bigger environmental impact.  Yeah, so?  That’s global warming/climate change: nothing new.
Here’s what’s new: This lack of […]

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Posted By: rebecca | Sep 23rd

 On the 100th anniversary of the devastating Tunguska event in Siberia, scientists and an Orange County congressman urge the government to take further defensive measures against near-Earth objects.
A group of scientists, joined by a member of Congress, used the 100th anniversary of the Tunguska asteroid event this week to draw attention to their belief that […]

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Posted By: ashley | Jul 7th

 An explosion rips through the Siberian wilderness in an artist’s conception.
A hundred years after a mysterious blast leveled some 770 square miles (2,000 square kilometers) of forest in Siberia, experts are saying that Earth is unprepared to face a similar blast caused by a meteor strike.
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According to Brian Handwerk

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Posted By: ashley | Jul 2nd

More than 18 scientists told The AP that they were surprised by the level of ice melt this year.
“I don’t pay much attention to one year … but this year the change is so big, particularly in the Arctic sea ice, that you’ve got to stop and say, ‘What is going on here?’ You […]

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Posted By: froosh | Dec 14th

Nearly 200 animals and plants have been added to a global database of threatened species, the World Conservation Union announced Wednesday, adding that the number is certainly on the low end.
From the lowland gorillas of Africa to corals of the Galapagos Islands, more than 16,300 species are threatened with extinction, the group said in releasing […]

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Posted By: froosh | Sep 12th

Dinosaurs shared the Earth for millions of years with the species that were their ancestors, a new study concludes.
Dinosaurs arose in the Late Triassic, between 235 million and 200 million years ago, and came to dominate the planet in the Jurassic, 200 million to 120 million years ago.
Scientists had thought the dinosaurs rapidly replaced their […]

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Posted By: froosh | Jul 20th