Science counts species on brink
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A list of 15,000 species threatened with extinction - many of them by human activity - is published.
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Scientists and officials strengthened efforts to forestall the extinction of thousands of species and protect the world&#39;s habitats in talks in
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As part of the most comprehensive study on worldwide avian biodiversity to date, researchers from Stanford University predict that within a century, 10 percent of bird species in the world will be extinct, with an additional 15 percent endangered.
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According to the first global assessment of amphibians, disease, climate change and habitat loss are threatening one-third of the world&#39;s fragile species of frogs, toads, newts and salamanders.
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Marine scientists say they have discovered 178 new species of fish and hundreds more new species of plants and other animals in the past year, raising the number of life-forms found in the world's oceans to about 230,000.
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NEARLY one in three species of frogs, toads and newts in the world is under threat of extinction, according to the most comprehensive global study of amphibians ever conducted.
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More than 200 European bird species, including 70 in the UK, are under threat, a study warns.
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From the lowland gorillas of Africa to corals of the Galapagos Islands, more than 16,300 species are threatened with extinction, the World Conservation Union said on Wednesday in its annual Red List.
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The first vertebrate species to begin hopping and crawling on land 350 million years ago may be the first to die out, according to a study released yesterday that found a third of all amphibian species worldwide are threatened with extinction.
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threatened that they may disappear soon due to intensive agriculture and climate change, scientists say. &quot;The number of bird species in trouble across Europe is rising,&quot; said BirdLife, a British-based conservation group.
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By Steve Connor Many animals and plants threatened with extinction could be saved if scientists spent more time talking with the native people whose knowledge of local species is dying out as fast as their languages are being lost.
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If it works as promised, DNA bar coding will assist in the urgent task of cataloging unknown species before their ranks are decimated by extinction.
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One in 10 of all bird species is likely to disappear by the end of the century, according to a study published today. A further 15 per cent of birds could be on the brink
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Many more species are probably yet to be found in pristine jungle in Indonesia's Papua province, where two mammals believed to be new to science were discovered in June, an Indonesian zoologist and a conservationist said.
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Attacks by elephants on villages, people and other animals are on the rise. Some researchers are pointing to a species-wide trauma and the fraying of the fabric of pachyderm society.
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Global warming could cut a swathe through the planet's species over the coming centuries, warns a study released Wednesday that shows a link between rising temperatures and mass extinctions reaching back half a billion years.
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Hundreds of medicinal plants are at risk of extinction, threatening the discovery of future cures for disease, experts warn.