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Science News
May 27, 2006 |
Science Safari: Amphibiaweb Curious about frogs, toads, or salamanders? This Web site provides data on more than 6,000 amphibian species from around the world.   |
Science News
December 5, 2008
Edward O. Wilson |
Protect Biodiversity Hot Spots And The Rest Will Follow The tragedy unfolding in our ignorance, in our preoccupation with strictly physical environments, is that human action is destroying countless species and even ecosystems before we even know they existed. |
Scientific American
March 2009
David Appell |
Can "Assisted Migration" Save Species from Global Warming? As the world warms up, some species cannot move to cooler climes in time to survive. Camille Parmesan thinks humans should help even if it means creating invasive species |
Science News
May 24, 2003 |
Amphibian Atlas A website that identifies the places where different types of amphibians dwell across the United States. |
Chemistry World
October 29, 2008
Lewis Brindley |
Popular Agrochemical Linked to Frog Disease A new study provides further evidence linking the herbicide Atrazine to a global decline in amphibian populations over the last three decades. |
Reason
November 2001
Sara Rimensnyder |
Cryptic Biodiversity By examining DNA, scientists have discovered new species of birds, reptiles, whales, and plants. Will this put more pressure on the Endangered Species Act? |
Popular Mechanics
February 3, 2010
Cassie Rodenberg |
Top 5 Most Damaging Invasive Species in the U.S. As transportation into the country has become more advanced, more invasive species have come in on boats and planes, thus worsening the problems posed to ecosystems. |
Science News
August 20, 2005 |
Wildlife Finder For a sofa safari, type in a location somewhere on the planet (by city, country, or even zip code) and see what kinds of natural habitat lie nearby. |
Smithsonian
January 2007 |
Wild Things: Life as We Know It Full Body Lotion... That's Deep... Observed... Conservation's Big Picture... Origin of Species (cont.)... |
Chemistry World
April 10, 2008
Henry Nicholls |
Water Retains DNA Memory of Hidden Species A team of scientists has demonstrated that DNA profiling could be a quick, effective and relatively cheap alternative to finding new species of animal life. |
Reason
July 2005
Kerry Howley |
Save the Frankenfish! Is the snakehead endangered? Environmental groups are using the Endangered Species Act to lock up land from development rather than save threatened species, and they want some reform from Washington. |
Reason
January 2009
Ronald Bailey |
Friendly Invasion End species discrimination -- newly introduced species may be able to get along with their native brethren better than previously believed. |
Scientific American
November 2008
Barbara Juncosa |
The Role of Random Events in Extinction Chance disaster is a bigger extinction threat than once thought. |
Parameters
Spring 2004
Robert J. Pratt |
Invasive Threats to the American Homeland Before 11 September 2001, when American leaders prepared for war they envisioned enemies using bombs, tanks, guns, military force, and other traditional armaments. The attacks on that fateful day forever changed the way the United States and the world would view the nature of war. |
Smithsonian
April 2007
Jen Phillips |
Species Explosion What happens when you mix evolution with climate change? |
Scientific American
June 20, 2005
Kate Wong |
Desert Island Paleontologists have unearthed fossils of giant amphibians that indicate that climate can effectively isolate organisms and thereby foster the appearance of a new species. |
Chemistry World
January 29, 2013
Anthony King |
Pesticides can kill frogs in hours Frogs exposed to pesticides at the kind of levels routinely sprayed on farm fields can die in hours, a new study from German and Swiss scientists report. |
Reason
Aug/Sep 2000
Ronald Bailey |
Bio-Invaders Are we under attack by "non-native" species? Should we care? |
Salon.com
March 2, 2001
Dawn MacKeen |
Global warning Species from birds to butterflies are doing strange things, and a new report blames the behavior on the Earth's rising temperature... |
Smithsonian
September 2005
Daniel Glick |
Back From The Brink Not every endangered species is doomed. Thanks to tough U.S. environmental laws, dedicated researchers, and plenty of money and effort, success stories abound. |
