Study: Loggerhead turtles put at risk by fishing

It's a scene that scientists say is all too common: A commercial fishing boat pulls in a net full of shrimp or tuna and finds a loggerhead sea turtle mixed in with the catch.

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China volcano may have caused mass extinction

A mass extinction some 260 million years ago may have been caused by volcanic eruptions in what is now China, new research suggests.

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Caribbean monk seal becomes extinct

Federal officials have confirmed what biologists have long thought: The Caribbean monk seal has gone the way of the dodo.

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Species evolve faster in cooler climes

A male masked tityra (Tityra semifasciata), one of the tropical species included in the study, at a nesting hole in a snag. It diverged from its sister species the black-tailed Tityra about 4 million years ago [Image courtesy of Jason Weir]

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Amphibians – the comeback kings of evolution

Amphibians bounced back spectacularly from a series of mass extinctions during their evolution, according to a new genetic analysis.

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Rare White Dolphin Declared As Extinct

A rare, nearly blind white dolphin that survived for millions of years is effectively extinct, an international expedition declared Wednesday after ending a fruitless six-week search of its Yangtze River habitat.

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Bringing Back the Woolly Mammoth - Maybe

Descendants of extinct mammals like the giant woolly mammoth might one day walk the Earth again. It isn't exactly Jurassic Park, but Japanese researchers are looking at the possibility of using sperm from frozen animals to inseminate living relatives.

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16,000 Species Said to Face Extinction

Polar bears and hippos are among more than 16,000 species of animals and plants threatened with global extinction, the World Conservation Union said Tuesday.

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Expert Says It Was Hotter 247M Years Ago

John Roth shined his flashlight on a black streak flowing through the cream-colored marble forming the walls of the Oregon Caves.

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UFOs and the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement

I've added a picture I thought you should see.

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A fungus found within ancient mammoth dung is providing scientists with clues about how the large ancient mammals collectively known as megafauna went extinct.

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An Indonesian crow long believed to be extinct has reappeared on a remote, mountainous island.

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This should be done, all over the world.

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Scientists have warned of an alarming increase in the extinction of animal species, because of threats to biodiversity and ecosystems.

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One of the world's largest freshwater fish is on the verge of going extinct.

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A wildlife scientist says people relieving themselves on top of Uluru may have killed off a rare species of shrimp.

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AP: Palau Creates World's First Shark Sanctuary Filed at 10:27 p.m. ET

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Top scientific report: catastrophic and irreversible environmental damage will be caused by crossing ''nine planetary boundaries''; 3 have already been exceeded - climate change, species loss and nitrogen cycles.

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India plans to bring back the cheetah, nearly half a century after it became extinct in the country. The BBC's Soutik Biswas considers whether it is a good idea.

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Review of "Uncivilisation: the Dark Mountain Manifesto" by Kingsnorth and Hine: "We have, it seems, led the planet into the age of ecocide. Can civilisation survive the unavoidable environmental catastrophe?"

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A dinosaur-killing asteroid may have wiped out much of life on Earth 65 million years ago, but now scientists have discovered how smaller organisms might have survived in the darkness following such a catastrophic impact.

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In the last year countries bailed out the financial system to the tune of several trillion dollars - bailing out our planet is far cheaper: between 2010 and 2015, $20bn dollars is enough to cut tropical rainforest loss by 25%.

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Descendants of the lost UK bumblebee will be brought from New Zealand to Dungeness in what could be a landmark repopulation programme

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In a paper published this week in the journal Nature, scientists ask: what do abrupt changes in ocean circulation and Earth's climate, shifts in wildlife populations and ecosystems, the global finance market and its system-wide crashes, and asthma attacks and epileptic seizures h …

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Biologists have figured out the most efficient way to destroy an ecosystem — and it's based on the Google search algorithm.

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Google's algorithm for ranking web pages can be adapted to determine which species are critical for sustaining ecosystems, say researchers.

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They're all gray wolves, but the Mexican gray wolf is notably different than its faraway cousins, and conservationists now say the animals need specific protection under federal law to avoid extinction.

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From panthers and pandas to rhinos and tigers, dwindling animal numbers speak of the need to step up conservation efforts – if it's not already too late. As a kind of wake-up call, we decided to take a look at seven extinct megafauna species captured on camera.

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Conservationists have launched a new initiative aimed at safeguarding the world's amphibians from extinction.

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The amphibian that never grew up is on the verge of going extinct in the wild.

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Kenya's lion population could disappear altogether in the next 20 years because of climate change, habitat destruction, disease and conflict with humans, the country's wildlife authority said on Monday.

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Environmentalists say a failure to deal with climate change and habitat destruction could jeopardise the future of hundreds of new plant and animal species identified in the eastern Himalayas.

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Sometimes it's just a case of being a member of the wrong family. Researchers analyzing evidence from 200 million years of fossil records have concluded that some lines of living organisms don't need a cataclysmic event to wipe them out. They just seem destined to go extinct.

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As I put together the post on the role of boosted intelligence in meshing infinite human aspirations with a finite planet, it brought to mind a theme that has been tugging at me for years now.

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