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Thousands of new plant and animal species were discovered in 2007, though only 10 were bizarre enough, lethal enough or just plain cool enough to garner spots on a new Top-10 list. Each year, the International Institute for Species Exploration (IISE) at...
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The Bush administration on Monday said that changes it wants to make to endangered species rules before President Bush leaves office will have no significant...
made popular Oct 27 2008
AP, Washington
The Bush administration says changes it wants to make to endangered species rules before President Bush leaves office will have no significant environmental...
made popular Oct 27 2008
AP, Washington
Rushing to ease endangered species rules before President Bush leaves office, Interior Department officials are attempting to review 200,000 comments from the public in...
made popular Oct 21 2008
AP, Vancouver
Environmentalists are taking the Canadian government to court, demanding it use the country’s Species at Risk Act to protect killer whales off British Columbia.
made popular Oct 9 2008
The Amazon is one of the richest areas of the world in animal and plant diversity. There can be more plant species in one hectare of Amazon rainforest than there are in...
made popular Oct 7 2008
AP, Honolulu
The federal government took a new, ecosystem-based approach to the endangered species list on Tuesday, proposing an all-at-once addition of 48 species, including...
made popular Sep 30 2008
AP, Honolulu
The federal government is proposing to add 47 species of plants and animals and one insect to the endangered species list _ all found only on the island of Kauai.
made popular Sep 30 2008
A new species of blind, subterranean, predatory ant discovered in the Amazon rainforest by University of Texas at Austin evolutionary biologist Christian Rabeling is...
made popular Sep 16 2008
AP, Seattle
Alishia Beckham is on the front lines defending the United States from foreign invaders _ armed with weapons that include a hand mirror and a flashlight.
made popular Sep 1 2008
Palaeontologists may have found a hitherto undiscovered dinosaur species when they unearthed the remains of a 120 million-year-old giant animal near the village of...
made popular Aug 30 2008
AP, Washington
The Bush administration is providing insufficient time for public comment as it seeks to loosen rules protecting endangered species, representatives of more than 100...
made popular Aug 22 2008
Scientists have found that DNA can be randomly rearranged because of odd repeating structures that have been noticed in the genetic code of higher animals.
made popular Aug 16 2008
Environmentalism is synonymous with loss. We fret about the loss of the rain forest, the loss of the Arctic ice cap and, eventually, the loss of a livable planet to...
made popular Aug 14 2008
AP, Washington
A Bush administration proposal that would eliminate the input of independent government scientists in some endangered species reviews would be tossed out if Democrat...
made popular Aug 13 2008
AP, Washington
Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne is defending proposed changes to the endangered species law, saying they will ensure the statute is not used as a “back...
made popular Aug 11 2008
AP, Washington
Tiny foreign mussels assault drinking water sources in California and Nevada. A deadly fish virus spreads swiftly through the Great Lakes and beyond. Japanese shore...
made popular Aug 4 2008
Check out some fantastic images of species discovered in the Southeast Asia’s Celebes Sea.
made popular Aug 3 2008
AP, San Francisco
An appeals judge says the Environmental Protection Agency must regulate the water discharged from ships as a way to protect local ecosystems from invasive species.A...
made popular Jul 23 2008
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With climate change increasingly threatening the survival of plants and animals, scientists say it may become necessary to move some species to save them.Dubbed...
made popular Jul 17 2008
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