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A team of international researchers has released the results of an extensive survey of the Antarctic and Arctic oceans. The census showed 7,500 species in the Antarctic and 5,500 in the Arctic. The total number includes several hundred thought to be newly discovered species. In addition it was discovered, astonishingly, that 200 or more of species are [...]
Much like the Lorax, San Francisco student Damaris Parra speaks for the trees. Several dozen residents of San Francisco (also known as San Pancho) Mexico staged a spontaneous sit-in yesterday in the middle of their main thoroughfare to halt the destruction of hundreds of the city’s trees and the replacement of permeable paving stones with [...]
In the Western Ghats mountain range of India researchers discovered a dozen frog species. Sathyabhama Das Biju, from the University of Delhi and Franky Bossuyt from the Free University of Brussels discovered the tree frogs at night while hiking in mountain forests during the monsoon season. (The same researchers were responsible for the discovery of [...]
Wildlife authorities are battling to get a hippo to leave the Cape Flats Sewage Plant and move back to the more natural environment of the Zeekoevlei Nature Reserve in which he was born. While this is a lighthearted post, its worth noting that many believe the hippo and not the lion or the crocodile is the animal [...]
