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PHOTO: LARGEST Python Ever Caught In Florida!
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20.5.2013 |
Green on HuffingtonPost.com |
| A Miami man captured, killed, and reported the largest Burmese python ever caught in Florida, according to Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission officials. Jason... |
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Invasive frogs carry amphibian-killing fungus
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20.5.2013 |
LA Times: Science |
A study links African clawed frogs, which were brought to California decades ago for use in pregnancy tests, with a deadly pathogen.
African clawed frogs were first brought to California decades ago to help doctors figure out whether their patients were pregnant. After new technology made those pregnancy tests obsolete, the creatures were let loose, and thrived for decades in the state's drainage ditches and ponds. |
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Maps of the rare and unusual
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18.5.2013 |
Earth Times |
| The protection of our fauna and flora is becoming one of the most important tasks of this generation, as more and more become endangered by human greed. Politics is part of the answer but initiatives such as those of the ZSL have a great part to play. |
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Frog Fungus and the Pregnancy Test of Doom
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17.5.2013 |
Greenlight | OnEarth Magazine, from NRDC |
| By Jason Bittel
Things are not going well for frogs. A type of fungus known as chytrid has decimated populations around the globe, causing the serious decline or extinction of 200 species. Even worse, scientists believe chytrid is capable of infecting most of the world’s 6,000-some amphibian varieties -- an event that would likely be cataclysmic for food chains worldwide . Luckily, a paper published in the online journal PLOS One this week offers some insight about how chytrid might have first spread -- and perhaps how to stop it.
But I have to warn you: it’s about to get a little weird.
It involves pregnancy tests. Nowadays we’ve got plastic, pastel-colored sticks with plus-signs and smiley faces to tell women when they’re expecting. But in the 1930s, those didn’t exist. Back then, women gave a sample of their urine to a scientist, who then promptly injected it into the hind leg of an African clawed frog ( Xenopus laevis ). If the woman was truly pregnant, her urine would contain ... |
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African clawed frog threatening other species with extinction
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16.5.2013 |
Seattle Times: Health |
| A species of frog that was used from the 1930s to the 1950s in human pregnancy tests is a carrier of a deadly amphibian disease that is now threatening hundreds of other species of frogs and salamanders. |
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Frogs imported to California likely transmitted deadly fungal disease
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16.5.2013 |
San Jose Mercury News: Breaking News |
| Scientists at Stanford and San Francisco State believe they have discovered Typhoid Mary of the frog world: a flat, feral creature thought to have transmitted a deadly fungus from Africa to California's ponds and puddles through global trading. |
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Observatory: Frog Once Used in Pregnancy Tests Spread Deadly Fungus
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16.5.2013 |
NY Times: Science |
| Observatory: Frog Once Used in Pregnancy Tests Spread Deadly Fungus |
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Senator Questions Sexism In GOP Boycott Of Obama Nominee
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15.5.2013 |
Green on HuffingtonPost.com |
| Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) questioned the Republican Party's commitment to women after Senate Republicans boycotted a vote for Gina McCarthy, the president's nominee to lead... |
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San Francisco: Research finds killer frogs in Golden Gate Park
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14.5.2013 |
San Jose Mercury News: Breaking News |
| Killer frogs are on the loose in San Francisco. They don't kill humans but there is a frog that is carrying a deadly infection that is decimating the amphibian population around the world, a study from Stanford University School of Medicine reports. |
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Largest Electorate Yet Set To Vote On Citizens United
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14.5.2013 |
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com |
| When Angelenos go to the polls next week to choose the next mayor of Los Angeles, they also will be the largest electorate to vote... |
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Chicken Diapers: Now Your Dinner-To-Be Can Be Civilized
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13.5.2013 |
Green on HuffingtonPost.com |
| Are you tired of your delicious meal pooping on your carpet? Do you want your chicken to be the cock of the town? Then get... |
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Climate Change To Dramatically Shrink Animal Habitats
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13.5.2013 |
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com |
| * More than half of all plants, a third of animals at risk-study * Rapid peak in greenhouse gas emissions could reduce impacts By Environment... |
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$1 Million Deal For Celebrity Panda
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11.5.2013 |
Green on HuffingtonPost.com |
| BANGKOK -- Thailand's celebrity baby panda Lin Ping is almost 4 years old now. It's time to move to China, find a mate and have... |
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Mark Axelrod: H.R. 1096, S. 583, The Pauls and the Magic of Morphogenesis
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9.5.2013 |
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com |
| At the time of conception the human embryo is not significantly different from a shark, a salamander, a lizard, a chicken, a rabbit or a pig. |
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Rare 'Pink Dolphins' Are In Danger, Conservationists Warn
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7.5.2013 |
Green on HuffingtonPost.com |
| Chinese white dolphins, nicknamed "pink dolphins," are rarely spotted in Hong Kong waters. However, the near-threatened species is becoming even more uncommon, and conservationists warn... |
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Can Humans Survive?
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6.5.2013 |
Newsweek Top Stories |
Five mass extinctions have nearly wiped out life on earth. The sixth is coming. |
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ESA Policy News: May 3
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4.5.2013 |
EcoTone |
| ESA Policy News: May 3 |
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National Academy of Sciences Study: Feds Are Failing to Protect Endangered Species From Pesticides
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1.5.2013 |
Commondreams.org Newswire |
A committee of the National Academy of Sciences’ National Research Council released a report today that outlines problems with the Environmental Protection Agency’s oversight of dangerous pesticides that are hurting endangered species across the country. The report comes when the EPA is decades behind in assessing the effects of hundreds of chemicals on endangered wildlife. read more |
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Feds To End Gray Wolf Protections?
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26.4.2013 |
Green on HuffingtonPost.com |
| BILLINGS, Mont. — Federal wildlife officials have drafted plans to lift protections for gray wolves across the Lower 48 states, a move that could end... |
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Endangered Frog From Mississippi, Louisiana Gets Help in Federal Court
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26.4.2013 |
Commondreams.org Newswire |
The Center for Biological Diversity and Gulf Restoration Network today moved to intervene in a federal lawsuit brought by a private landowner challenging habitat protections for dusky gopher frogs. read more |
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