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• Climate change helps spread deadly diseases
Even minor disturbances can have far reaching consequences on what diseases (wild animals) might encounter and transmit as climate changes," said Steven Sanderson, head of the society. "The term 'climate change' conjures images of melting ice caps and ...
• EarthTalk: Painkillers and electric bikes
Is the meat industry really cloning animals now to “beef up” production? -- Frank DeFazio, Sudbury, Mass. Cloning has been controversial ever since Scottish scientists announced in 1996 that they had cloned their first mammal, a sheep they named ...
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We saw about 30 girls in two trucks piled up like animals. One girl was just picked up and thrown into the truck," government worker Nok Duany told Reuters. Southern Sudan Gender Minister Mary Kiden was also angry and told Reuters that eight young ...
• Deadlines set for designating polar bear habitat
Andrew Wetzler of the Natural Resource Defense Council said designation of critical habitat is one of the most powerful and important protections offered by the Endangered Species Act to animals and plants on the brink of extinction. The settlement ...
• Boy, 7, breaks into zoo, feeds animals to croc
SYDNEY, Australia - A 7-year-old boy broke into a popular Outback zoo, fed a string of animals to the resident crocodile and bashed several lizards to death with a rock, the zoo's director said Friday. The 30-minute rampage, caught on the zoo's ...