Caribbean Reef Corals Near Extinction
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Six species of reef-building coral could vanish from the Caribbean due to rising temperatures and toxic runoff from islands' development, according to a study released Thursday
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The once abundant shrimp of the legendary Rio Grande in Jamaica have become scarce and what can still be caught are often poisoned, a result of manâs impact on the natural world.
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Guardians of two of the world's most popular coral reefs joined forces on Thursday to protect their fragile charges from the ravages of water pollution, coral disease and people.
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Raucous squawking erupts from cages filled with dozens of parrots &#151; a hopeful sound from a species on the brink of extinction. The last chance of survival for the Puerto Rican parrot may lie in forest aviaries where these captive birds began their nesting in January under close observation.
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FORTESCUE, New Jersey  - A tiny shorebird is edging closer to extinction, threatened by fishermen who destroy its food staple for bait and loved by ornithologists who are drawn from around the world to count it.
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About 70 percent of the world's coral reefs have been wrecked or are at risk from human activities but some are showing surprising resilience to global warming, a report said on Monday.
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The scalloped hammerhead shark is being pushed towards the brink of extinction, say experts.
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Sharks are now 'at the top of the list' of marine fishes that could go extinct in our lifetimes. Here are some of the nine species that we may never see again
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More than 15,000 species, from sharks to frogs to fir trees, are facing extinction and the total is rising faster than ever before, conservationists and scientists said Wednesday.
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The blue whale, once on the verge of extinction, is making a comeback.
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Guam&#39;s tropical forests are silent. The rattling, screeching and cawing of the island&#39;s native birds have been erased by the brown tree snake, a devastating predator accidentally
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They say as many as 122 species may have become extinct since 1980 and a third of known amphibians face oblivion. Naturalists describe the creatures as sensitive indicators of the health of the wider environment.
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The extinction of whole species, once specific to isolated islands, is becoming a trend across continents.
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Australia's Great Barrier Reef could be dead within decades because of global warming, a leaked IPCC report says.
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The turtle is one of the longest-lived creatures Earth has known, but at least half of all turtle species are now in serious danger of extinction.
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A new study finds more than a thousand types of plant, bird, mammal and invertebrate are now endangered.
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Apes, gazelles, crocodiles, dolphins, vultures and parakeets are all in danger as the global extinction crisis escalates.