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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.
Science News March 8, 2008	One-Stop Shopping for Every Species The definitive place on the Internet to find information on every living species.
Science News August 4, 2007	Science Safari: Biota Behaving Badly The U.S. Department of Agriculture offers one site for news and impacts of invasive species.
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?
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
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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 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.
IDB America January 2005 Roger Hamilton	Search and Destroy in the Galapagos Inspectors battle ecological imperialism at the islands' airports and docks.
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Scientific American November 2008 Barbara Juncosa	The Role of Random Events in Extinction Chance disaster is a bigger extinction threat than once thought.
Fast Company July 2009 Dan Macsai	Big Bangs How our diverse species of consumer electronics -- books, music, computers, and phones -- have evolved. Will a single device ever unite them all?
Chemistry World August 20, 2008	Grasslands Emit Greenhouse Gas Chinese researchers have found further evidence that plants emit significant quantities of methane - a potent greenhouse gas. But the latest findings also show that methane emissions depend not just on the species of plant, but the conditions in which they are growing.
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Scientific American August 2005 Marguerite Holloway	When Extinct Isn't Questioning the term after the ivory-billed woodpecker's return.
IDB America May/Jun 2000	Ecological ground zero Seven of the world's most biodiverse---and threatened---areas are in Latin America and the Caribbean. What can be done to protect them?
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Science News July 7, 2007	Science Safari: Sawfish Central A site to view the Sawfish, a member of the shark family, and link to research aimed at rescuing populations of its seven beleaguered species worldwide.
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Smithsonian December 2005 Frank J. Sulloway	The Evolution of Charles Darwin A creationist when he visited the Galapagos Islands, the great naturalist grasped the full significance of the unique wildlife he found there only well after he had returned to London.
Salon.com October 28, 2002 Katharine Mieszkowski	Data-mining life on earth Every blade of grass, every fish and fowl, slug and snail, has a place on the Web.
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Salon.com January 14, 2002 John Glassie	E.O. Wilson The great scientist and conservationist explains the terrorism we insist on overlooking. And space colonies won't help, either...
Science News February 17, 2001	Skeleton Search Web site where you can compare the bones of various species.
Outside March 2006 Anthony Cerretani	Survival of the A-List Scientists turn to Hollywood for the origin of species names
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Geotimes December 2003 Naomi Lubick	Vertebrates and tectonics Paleontologists suggested some new twists on tectonics and ecosystems at the annual meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (SVP), held mid-October. Their ideas might offer answers to some key conundrums regarding extinction, speciation and the global distribution of vertebrate species.
Scientific American June 2007	Serengeti in the Dakotas A proposed Pleistocene rewilding would restock the Great Plains with large mammal species like those that roamed the continent before humans crossed the Bering Strait -- species such as camels, lions and elephants.
IDB America April 2005 Roger Hamilton	The Message of a Little Monkey In Rio de Janeiro and across the globe, natural ecosystems are being altered and simplified to serve burgeoning human demands. If the golden lion tamarin escapes extinction, the world will be a little more habitable for the rest of us.
Geotimes October 2005 Sara Pratt	Serengeti in the Great Plains A new mammal conservation proposal could one day have wild lions, elephants, cheetahs, camels and horses roaming the American Great Plains.
D-Lib October 2005 Hamish MacCall	Images of Life on Earth ARKive is a free online resource that uses nature films, photographs, sound recording and more to recreate realistic portraits of Earth's endangered plants and animals.
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Geotimes March 2006 Kathryn Hansen	Marine Critters Record Global Warming Layers of fossilized marine creatures have acted as an independent record of ocean temperature for millennia. Now, data from such layers is mirroring the same warming trend that instruments have shown -- suggesting humans are contributing to global warming.