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Extinction

The Mason Center for Social Entrepreneurship and the Center for Consciousness and Transformation have partnered with Mason ethnobiologist Dr. Mike Gilmore and Mason students to bring clean drinking water as well as proper sanitation and hygiene to

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Product Set For Extinction By 2015

by on April 13, 2013

Once a white-hot PC product that sold in the tens of millions of units annually, netbook computers are now marking their final days, with the rise of tablets causing their shipments to wind down to virtually zero after next year, according to an IHS

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Beautiful Striped Bat Identified As Entirely New Genu

April 13, 2013

A new genus of bat has been discovered in South Sudan, the world's newest country. The strikingly striped bat has been placed into the genus Niumbaha,

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Frog Species Across Caribbean Teeter On Edge Of Extinction In A Sign Of

April 12, 2013

The coqui, the common name for a genus that includes 17 species in Puerto Rico, including three believed to be already extinct, is important to the cultural heritage of the island; it's considered a symbol of the island, seen in everything from

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Jurassic Park But For Real This Time De Extinction On The Move

April 12, 2013

The frog?which bizarrely swallowed its eggs, incubated them in its stomach, and gave birth to them through its mouth?has been extinct since 1984. However, researchers from the University of New South Wales harvested

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Beautiful Striped Bat Identified As Entirely New Genus

April 12, 2013

Niumbaha Superba A new genus of bat has been discovered in South Sudan, the world's newest country. The strikingly striped bat has been placed into the genus Niumbaha, which means “rare” or “unusual” in the Zande language of the region. A paper

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Extinction Period More Severe Research Says

April 12, 2013

Research by Auckland-based geologists indicates the most recent major extinction period in the deep sea was much more severe than previously thought. The extinction happened during the Pleistocene climate transition between 1 million and 600,000 years

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Spring Means Renewal De Extinction

April 12, 2013

Humans bear responsibility for numerous species' extinction because men have hunted them or wrecked their habitat. In National Geographic's April issue, the author Carl Zimmer lists some extinct animals, all because of men: the Pyrenean ibex, the dodo,

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Feds Link Pot Farms To Threats Against

April 12, 2013

They say weed can't kill you. But if recent research is any indication, marijuana farms may be driving certain species to extinction.

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Brazil Misses Deadline To Save The Aw From Extinction

April 12, 2013

He was following the advice of several experts who had warned of “genocide” and the possible “extinction” of the Awá, who live in the northeastern Brazilian Amazon, if nothing was done to protect their land. The deadline has come and gone, and

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