In this Changing Times segment from the University of California Irvine Media Center, Dr. Bill Cooper interviews controversial and passionate wildlife activist Paul Watson, founder of Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, and Co-Founding Director of Greenpeace Foundation. To view the video click on Read More Tweet

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Rutgers University Press Release The yet unnamed amphibian is believed to have lived among us for a century without being recognized. In New York City – in the midst of some of the world’s tallest skyscrapers – and within view of the Statue of Liberty, scientists have found a new frog species. While discovering new species [...]

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Colors – time lapse, macro and nature’s beauty by D’Alessandro Photography     Tweet

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by Robert Sanders – UC Berkeley The Global Amphibian Blitz is a new partnership between the University of California, Berkeley’s AmphibiaWeb, a comprehensive database of the world’s nearly 7,000 amphibians; Amphibian Ark; the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute; the Amphibian Specialist Group of the Species Survival Commission, which is part of the International Union for Conservation [...]

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The top 10 new species list is issued annually by the International Institute for Species Exploration at Arizona State University and an international committee of taxonomists – scientists responsible for species exploration and classification. Glow-in-the-dark mushrooms, a batfish flat as a pancake that appears to hop in the water, Titanic-eating bacterium, and a T. rex [...]

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Endangered Species Day, May 20th, is devoted to acknowledging the multitude of endangered species globally, and to highlight and support the conservation efforts being made to save them, and their natural habitats. The Endangered Species Act (ESA) became law in the US in 1973. While as of May 2011, there are 1177 endangered and threatened [...]

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Hope for Animals and their World The Jane Goodall Institute Roots & Shoots Tweet

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This Microbe’s for You: Brewery Waste Becomes Scientific Fodder for Producing Liquid Biofuels Science Daily Gaining new insight into how efficiently the microbes in large bioreactors produce methane from brewery waste, Cornell scientists hope to use their new knowledge to shape these microbial communities to produce liquid biofuels and other useful products. You’re Trammeling My [...]

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Harpy Eagles return signals success for Belize’s bird conservation Fauna & Flora International – Georgina Kenyon Scientists recently discovered a Harpy Eagle nest in the Bladen Nature Reserve, located in the southern Maya Mountains of Belize in central America. The eagles were thought previously to be extinct in the country. More trees than there were [...]

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