By Laura Zuckerman; editing by Steve Gorman and Greg McCuneSat Oct 2, 2010 6:29pm EDT SALMON, Idaho (Reuters) – Across the northern Rocky Mountains, bighorn sheep are dying by the hundreds from pneumonia and alarmed wildlife officials are hunting and killing the majestic animals to halt the spread of the disease. Since winter, nine disease […]
By Yereth Rosen; editing by Steve Gorman and Greg McCuneSun Oct 3, 2010 9:11am EDT ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) – Move over, polar bear. The Pacific walrus may be the new icon of global warming. Like polar bears, walruses are dependent on floating sea ice to rest, forage for food and nurture their young. Like polar […]
By Joshua Schneyer; editing by David GregorioThu Sep 30, 2010 7:09pm EDT NEW YORK (Reuters) – University researchers said on Thursday they recently found alarming levels of cancer-causing toxins in an area of the Gulf of Mexico affected by BP’s oil spill, raising the specter of long-lasting health concerns. Oregon State University (OSU) researchers found […]
Thousands of walruses gathered together in a dangerous “haul out” on the coast of Alaska earlier this month. Scientists say the walruses came ashore in such large numbers because their normal habitats, Arctic ice floes, are melting. Walruses Swarm Beaches as Ice Melts Technorati Tags: sea ice,Arctic,Alaska,North America,global warming,climate change,climate refugees,habitat loss,ecosystem disruption,marine mammal,mammal decline
By Laura Zuckerman, with additional reporting by Amy Linn in Missoula, Montana; editing by Steve Gorman, Jonathan Oatis and Sandra MalerWed Sep 29, 2010 6:53pm EDT SALMON, Idaho (Reuters) – A shortage of berries and other foods that hungry bears normally rely on to bulk up before hibernation has sent conflicts with humans spiraling to […]
By Jeremy Hance, www.mongabay.com September 27, 2010 Customs officials found 16 pieces of cut ivory on searching a 62-year-old Malaysian man at Suvarnabhumi International Airport in Thailand in August. Recently released information shows that the traveler was carrying nearly 200 pounds (90 kilograms) of ivory in four suitcases after arriving from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. “The […]
By Jeremy Hance, www.mongabay.com September 27, 2010 Spreading over three central African nations—Cameroon, Central African Republic, and Republic of Congo—the Sangha tri-national landscape is home to a variety of actors: over 150,000 Bantu people and nearly 20,000 pygmies; endangered species including forest elephants and gorillas; and, not least, the Congo rainforest ecosystem itself, which here […]
By Annie FeidtSeptember 26, 2010 from APRN Earlier this month, tens of thousands of walruses crowded onto a sandy stretch of beach on Alaska’s northwest coast. The animals were forced to swim to shore after the Arctic Sea ice they usually live on disappeared from the Chukchi Sea. It’s a phenomenon that was unheard of […]
By Jeremy Hance, www.mongabay.com September 19, 2010 It’s not easy to be a gibbon: although one of the most acrobatic, fast, and marvelously loud of the world’s primates, the gibbon remains largely unknown to the global public and far less studied than the world’s more ‘popular’ apes. This lack of public awareness, scientific knowledge, and, […]
‘Keystone’ wildebeests will be cut off from dry season food, UBC prof says CBC NewsFriday, September 17, 2010 | 3:00 PM ET A proposed road through Tanzania’s Serengeti National Park will lead to the collapse of an ecosystem celebrated for its vast herds of wildebeest and zebra, scientists warn. “The road will cause an environmental […]
