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• Half of mammals are in decline, study finds
BARCELONA, Spain - One in two mammal species on Earth are in decline and at least one in four are at risk of disappearing forever, according to a scientific survey released Monday and whose sponsors described the trend as an "extinction crisis" in ...
• A last refuge for life remained after extinction
What is now Ellsmere Island in the Canadian Arctic archipelago was once a last refuge for life during the Earth's worst extinction event 250 million years ago, say scientists who have discovered a surprising trove of ancient fossils there. During the ...
• Recordings aim to capture calls of the wild West
The World Conservation Union estimates that one in three amphibian species is at risk for extinction. Rice, 41, wants to capture as many on tape as possible before they're gone. "It's very much a race against time," he said. He figures the library has ...
• Media, tech companies unite to fight piracy
For songwriters, it's a recipe for extinction," he said. Movie studios in the Motion Picture Association of America lost $2.3 billion worldwide to Internet piracy alone in 2005, the most recent year for which MPAA statistics are available. The leaders ...
• Sure it's ugly, but shouldn't this fish get help?
The fishing pressure is going to continue to haunt this fish right down to extinction unless something is done," said Peter Shelley, the foundation's vice president. The slow-growing, late-maturing wolffish lives along the rocky ocean bottom in 250 ...