IFAW welcomes end to Fin whaling in Iceland May 2012. The International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) has welcomed the news that Iceland has called an end to the cruel practice of harpooning endangered Fin whales. Kristjan Loftsson, the lone Icelandic whaler responsible for killing 280 Fin whales over the last six years (Seven Fin whales were [...]
Peru’s government declared a health alert along its northern coastline on Saturday and urged residents and tourists to stay away from long stretches of beach, as it investigates the unexplained deaths of hundreds of dolphins and pelicans. At least 1,200 birds, mostly pelicans, washed up dead along a stretch of Peru’s northern Pacific coastline in [...]
A bee collects pollen from a field of crocuses at Kew Gardens in London, March 17, 2005. Photo: Kieran Doherty Plants are flowering faster than scientists predicted in response to climate change, research in the United States showed on Wednesday, which could have devastating knock-on effects for food chains and ecosystems. Global warming is having [...]
WWF is deeply concerned over the reported deaths of over 32 vulnerable Yangtze finless porpoises since the beginning of the year, and is working with authorities and local communities to prevent the tragedy from reoccurring. 32 porpoises found dead Since 3 March 2012, more than 32 porpoises have been found dead in Dongting and Poyang [...]
Polar bears are capable of swimming vast distances, a potential survival skill needed in an Arctic environment where summer sea ice is vanishing, a study led by the U.S. Geological Survey showed on Tuesday. The study, published in the Canadian Journal of Zoology, tracked 52 female polar bears in the southern Beaufort Sea off Alaska. [...]
The ongoing rapid industrialization of the world’s advanced developing economies means global emissions of heat-trapping gases will by the end of the decade exceed safe levels by far more than previously expected, according to a report published Friday. The report from PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency said global greenhouse gas output will be at least [...]
An article written by Kim Tingley and Published in On Earth Magazine 16th April 2012… By outward appearances, the scalloped hammerhead and its newly discovered twin are almost impossible to tell apart Live sharks are hard creatures to count. Typically, to get a sense of whether a species is flourishing or dying out, scientists [...]
Less than 40 years ago the Pacific gray whale was considered to be on the verge of extinction…and so it was. After years of commercial hunting numbers had been reduced to a level where it was feared that the population was so low that they could not recover. However, within the last five years this [...]
With the recent death in January of another Maui’s dolphin by entanglement in static fishing gear cetacean biologists around the globe are resigning themselves to yet another whale species facing extinction within the next few years; joining the recently extinct Yangtze river dolphin and the ranks of other critically endangered marine mammal species like the [...]
Local farmers, amateur birdwatchers and bird researchers have witnessed an unusual and at times disturbing phenomenon recently as huge numbers of snowy owls (Bubo scandiacus) are migrating south from the Arctic and being seen as far south as Missouri. Such are the increasingly large numbers of this majestic owl species that it is being described [...]
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