NewsRack: 'Hotspots' news in 'Biodiversity' topic for user irge304

Earth's crust had a billion-year youthful rampage	7.5.2013	New Scientist: GM Organisms
Earth's crust had a billion-year youthful rampage
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Keystone's pipeline cousins come under scrutiny	7.5.2013	New Scientist: GM Organisms
Keystone's pipeline cousins come under scrutiny
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New York at high risk of alien invasions	7.5.2013	New Scientist: GM Organisms
New York at high risk of alien invasions
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European and Asian languages have one mother tongue	7.5.2013	New Scientist: GM Organisms
European and Asian languages have one mother tongue
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Today on New Scientist	7.5.2013	New Scientist: GM Organisms
Today on New Scientist
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Scientists on hunt for new species	12.3.2013	BBC: Science
A team from the UK's Chester Zoo is heading to a mountainous national park in Nigeria to carry out the first biodiversity assessment in the area.
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Legal horn trade urged to save rhinos	1.3.2013	MSNBC
Surging demand for rhino horn to decorate daggers and treat everything from hangovers to cancer is driving the iconic animals to the brink of extinction. The only way to save them is to humanely harvest rhino horn and sell it legally, scientists argue in a controversial new paper.
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Scientists wiring oceans to protect ecosystems (Cached)	18.2.2013	New Kerala: Andhra Pradesh

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The amateur naturalists discovering new species	15.2.2013	BBC: World
The amateur naturalists finding new species all over Europe
'Shark attack' descriptions usually inaccurate, say researchers	30.1.2013	Guardian: Environment
Most 'attacks' are actually just sightings or involve species of shark that pose no danger, study shows Would a shark attack by another name would be any less terrifying? Researchers say it would, arguing that the current all-purpose "attack" label is unnecessarily scary, inaccurate, and is helping to drive sharks into extinction. A study published this week in the Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences makes the case that the use of the term "shark attack" is overly emotional, and steeped in Jaws-type lore about "man-eating" and "rogue" sharks preying on unsuspecting beachgoers. Instead, they suggest a sliding scale of new descriptions, from "shark sightings" to "fatal shark bites". To support their case, the researches note that records from the two global shark "hotspots", New South Wales and Florida, indicate the majority of encounters were sightings or, in cases where there was contact, involved small species of shark that pose no real danger to humans. In the case of ...
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The great garden worm count finds our underground allies are thriving	20.1.2013	Guardian: Environment
An earthworm project has given an insight into the state of our lawns and hedges and mobilised more than 40,000 people Britain's underground army is in top shape. A remarkable public survey of earthworms has revealed that they are thriving in the nation's backyards and gardens. The discovery was made thanks to a series of projects carried out by the Open Air Laboratories (Opal) project and has involved more than 40,000 teams of school pupils and homeowners digging up worms and counting them. "We have found that private gardens are hotspots of biodiversity – when it comes to worms," said Dr David Jones, who is directing the survey. "There are 26 species of earthworm in Britain, including the lob worm, blackheaded worm and the green worm, and each favours a slightly different habitat. Some like slightly acidic soil. Others prefer drier conditions. Many of them can be found in our gardens." The crucial feature about the average garden is that they often provide several different types of ...
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European Mammals Make Like Gérard Depardieu, Flee to Russia	16.1.2013	Mother Jones
By 2080, Russia might witness a vast mammalian invasion, as sub-arctic European animals flee global warming and adapt to a thawing tundra. New textbooks may need to accommodate never-before-seen communities of species as climate change pits predator against predator beyond the Russian steppe. That's what a group of Swedish researchers predict in a new climate change study published in the journal, PloS One . "North Western Russia will be some kind of hotspot of species richness," said Christer Nilsson, an ecology professor, via Skype from Umeå University in Sweden. "Species will be on the move and there will be new combinations of species." Red and fallow deer, wild boar, the Eurasian badger, rabbits, mice and beaver will all be on the move as new tracts of habitable land open up. Fallow deer, heading to Russia John Kent/Flickr In a surprising twist, Professor Nilsson and his team found that most species in the Barents Region, which includes the northern half of Norway, Sweden, ...
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Fens are rare wildlife 'hotspot'	7.11.2012	BBC: Science
A pioneering study by the University of East Anglia has revealed that the Fens are home to 25% of Britain's rarest wildlife and 13 globally rare species.
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Seabird atlas shows 3,000 key ocean conservation hotspots	16.10.2012	The Guardian -- World Latest
BirdLife International hopes the map will encourage governments to identify where to site marine protected areas A new atlas of the world's oceans issued on Tuesday shows more than 3,000 sites important to seabirds from albatrosses to penguins as part of a drive to improve conservation. The free online atlas could help governments plan, for instance, where to set up wildlife protection areas at sea or where to permit offshore wind turbines or oil and gas exploration, they said. The atlas, showing areas vital to birds including pelicans, sandpipers, cormorants and skuas, was compiled by BirdLife International, drawing on work by 1,000 bird experts, government ministries and secretariats of UN conventions. "Seabirds are now the most threatened group of birds. They present unique conservation problems, since many species travel thousands of kilometres across international waters," BirdLife International said in a statement . It identifies more than 3,000 important bird areas (IBAs) ...
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Arunachal team to participate in 11th CoP (Cached)	4.10.2012	New Kerala: World News

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Save the Antarctic	28.9.2012	The Guardian -- World Latest
Robert Falcon Scott , my grandfather, went on his first expedition to the Antarctic aboard the Discovery over a century ago ( Report , 17 September). Many expeditions and explorations have taken place since then to this remote region. This week, as we mark World Maritime Day , we find ourselves at a crossroads where we urgently need to balance protection and exploitation of the Antarctic's marine resources and protect marine habitats and wildlife from excessive human interference. With the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources meeting less than 50 days away, the UK government has the potential to champion the efforts of organisations such as the Antarctic Ocean Alliance to protect Antarctica's environment, by agreeing to protect key biodiversity hotspots and areas critical to southern ocean species. As a biologist, I hope the government will take a lead role and, since my grandfather's expeditions were based in the Ross Sea, I am especially keen that the unique ...
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Growing threats to biodiversity 'arks'	28.8.2012	Guardian: Environment
Many of the world's tropical protected areas are struggling to sustain biodiversity, researchers say Many of the world's tropical protected areas are struggling to sustain their biodiversity, according to a study by more than 200 scientists from around the world. But the study published in Nature includes research focusing on a reserve in Tanzania by University of York scientists that indicates that long-term engagement with conservation has positive results. Dr Andy Marshall, of the Environment Department at York and Director of Conservation Science at Flamingo Land, compared the data he collected in the Udzungwa mountains with data collected more than 20 years previously by Jon Lovett, formerly of the University of York and now Professor of Global Challenges at the University of Leeds. Conservation efforts in this biodiversity hotspot have paid dividends. It is one of the few sites that are relatively unchanged from a biodiversity point of view. Professor William Laurance, from ...
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Ants 'sow the seeds' of the Cape	16.8.2012	BBC: Front Page
Ants helped create a biodiversity hotspot in the Cape region of South Africa, scientists believe.
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UN gives Western Ghats world heritage site status (Cached)	3.7.2012	New Kerala: World News

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UN designates Western Ghats as world heritage site (Cached)	2.7.2012	Hindustan Times: World
India's 1600-km long Western Ghats mountain chain, which has forests older than the Himalaya mountains, has been added to list of world heritage sites by the United Nations. ...
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