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Source: www.alternet.org --- 13 days ago
Scientists now suspect that the earth's greatest Mass Extinction wasn't caused by an asteroid strike or any other single cataclysmic event. ... Source: whoar.co.nz --- 12 days ago
“..Scientists now suspect that the earth’s greatest Mass Extinction wasn’t caused by an asteroid strike or any other single cataclysmic event. In 1980, scientists Luis Alvarez and his son, Walter, proposed a new explanation for the dinosaurs’ disappearance 65 million years ago: a meteor strike. Initially, the idea was met with resistance. But the evidence was [...] ... Source: www.chiefmag.com --- 5 days ago
Um, I’m totally fighting my next war like this. Dinosaurs are awesome. Lasers are awesome. Lizard men are not awesome, except for when they are killed by dinosaurs shooting lasers, or by fiery blasts from prehistoric battle volcanoes. Thank you, toys of the 1980’s. Mass Extinction has never been so cool. ...
Source: www.suite101.com --- 17 days ago
Although scientists know the Extinction event that marked the end of the Permian was the largest in magnitude, there is general disagreement regarding its causes. ... Source: efhumboldt.org --- 12 days ago
(edited 20/11 9:25pm) Coho Salmon, Chinook Salmon, Marbled Murrelets and Northern Spotted Owls are just a few of the species that are rapidly declining in our immediate area. Both Northern Spotted Owls and Chinook Salmon are facing assaults from Green Diamond, a company we have been building a campaign against since this spring. They have an upcoming [...] ... Source: www.dailysciencedose.com --- 10 days ago
Did you know that the present time is already considered one of the great Mass extinctions? Humans seem to be the major culprit in this, the Holocene Extinction event, but scientists have recently began surmising that a similar Extinction 251 million years ago was caused by the same thing. But with no humans [...] ... Source: blogs.zdnet.com --- 2 days ago
Answer: Rectangular peg, Square Hole. With the prices of HDTV’s plummeting, one would think that people would be rushing to buy new sets, particularly with the analog TV Mass-Extinction event coming in February. But the reality is, many people have no intention of replacing their TV sets, preferring to delay the inevitable using a cheap [...] ... Source: www.huffingtonpost.com --- 10 days ago
Norman, Oklahoma - Jim Lehrer has two words of advice for mainstream journalists who worry that they're headed for Extinction in the brave new world of the Internet. The words are "Calm down." Lehrer, the executive editor and anchor for the PBS "NewsHours" program that bears his name, says the screams of panic emanating from print and broadcast newsrooms and their executive boardrooms as newspaper and magazine circulation and profits and nightly news program ratings plunge to new lows do, indeed, signal a revolution in the world of journalism. "Sound the alarms," he warns. "Cable news and the Internet bloggers and the satellite and other radio talk shouters and the late night comedians are teaming up with Yahoos, Googles, I-Pods and MP3 players and other strange things to put us out of business." But, like Churchill, Lehrer is convinced that the only thing traditional journalists have to fear is fear itself. "Journalism is still about the story," the award-winning journalist and author of 19 novels said last week as he honored by the University of Oklahoma's Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communications as the first recipient of the Gaylord Prize, established by the Oklahoma City newspaper family to honor a nationally recognized role model for future journalists. "Our democratic society will only work if we have an informed electorate." The Gaylord family has given more than $40 million to establish one of the finest jou ... Source: www.care2.com --- 38 days ago
Man is responsible for the greatest Extinction of wildlife since the demise of the dinosaurs with a 35% decrease in biodiversity over the past 35 years, according to new research. Submitted by Natalie B. to Environment | Note-it! | Add a Comment ... Source: services.inquirer.net --- 61 days ago
PARIS -- Earth's animal and plant species are vanishing at unprecedented rates, evidence that the planet is facing a tsunami of Mass Extinction, experts gathering for a global conservation conference next week have warned. ... Source: www.postchronicle.com --- 42 days ago
U.S. scientists say the Earth is in the midst of its sixth Mass Extinction of plants and animals,... ... Source: www.ireport.com --- 1 day ago
Today there was a story published relating to a probable biological terror attack. Isn't one form of genocide a terror attack using a carrier of an infectious disease like XDR-TB or ebola? Is genocide limited to the Mass murder of a single race or can it be the targeted Extinction of a way of life or a nation? ...
Source: discovermagazine.com --- 28 days ago
In our planet's sixth great Mass Extinction event, amphibians are among the hardest hit. ...
Source: www.sustainablebusiness.com --- 33 days ago
The Earth's sixth Mass Extinction is man-made. ...
Source: www.independent.com --- 42 days ago
Biologists attempting to determine how to solve largest Extinction in 65 million years. ... Find more results for Mass Extinction on RSSMicro.com |
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Between 1940 and 1970, downtown Pekin was a bustling business center, where children shopped with Mom at an array of department stores and men in suits and fancy fedoras strolled the sidewalks on their way to work. Like many communities of the era, Pekin's downtown was the focal point of commerce, and everything from banks to barbershops were located in the heart of town. But vibrant downtowns with a variety of businesses have slowly dwindled, some to the point of Extinction, abandoned by shoppers for mega stores, strip malls and fast food chains. The only reminders of the way things were are the hulking brick buildings that stand silent and vacant, faithfully displaying their empty glass storefronts each day to the crowds of people who no longer walk by. Court Street is one of the main arteries through Pekin's downtown, and it's dotted with buildings that once held mom-and-pop shops of all kinds. While some businesses remain, a Mass exodus to the city's east side began in the 1970s, and it took its toll on the once prosperous area. The expansion to the east, an increasing population and a turning away from the past for the excitement of the new nearly wiped out the downtown business district altogether. But one group is working to restore downtown to its former glory by attracting new businesses to help preserve what they believe makes Pekin special and unique. "We're trying to promote our downtown and create a positive experie ...
Is it any surprise the acorn's gone missing in the District, after all the noise that conservatives made before the election? In all seriousness, when scientists start to use terms like "zero year" for just about anything, it's time to be very afraid. While botanists are concerned for the state of the oak in the area, even those of us who haven't noticed the acorn's absence have reason to be concerned — and for more than area forests. According to one naturalist, this year was supposed to be a banner year for various area oak trees, making the disappearance all the freakier. Among the prevailing theories to explain the disappearance of acorns across the east coast is an especially wet spring, which might have washed away the pollen. But that's at best a stab at an explanation and not a likely one at that, according to one forester, who mused that we'd need to see "[f]orty days of constant rain" for this sort of Children-of-Men effect. You have to wonder whether global warming is the cause. And while that would be a shocking revelation, it wouldn't exactly be a surprise: According to Science Dialy , human activity (in the form of industrialization and pollution) is prompting the planet's sixth Mass Extinction, one that is expected to kill off half the world's species of life. This writer has noticed an uptick in gross ginkgo fruits in Columbia Heights. Not a great tradeoff for the acorn, if that's what's happening. Far from notic ...
Entire species of plants are dying off in droves, just like mammals. And there's no way to save them all, say scientists. How do you decide which plant species to preserve at all costs, and which ones to consign to oblivion forever? Answering that question may mean the difference between selective Extinction for some — and worldwide Extinction for all. A team from UC Santa Barbara is working on this very question, and they've just published a study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. They believe Earth is in its sixth Mass Extinction, which will kill off nearly 50% of all plant and animal species. Figuring out which endangered plants to save may be the key to minimizing the ecological impact of this particular Extinction: "Losing a very unique species may be worse than losing one with a close relative in the community," said [co-author Todd] Oakley. "The more evolutionary history that is represented in a plant community, the more productive it is." [Post-doctoral fellow Marc W.] Cadotte explained that the buttercup is a very unique species, evolutionarily. Losing the buttercup, where it occurs in grasslands, would have a much bigger impact on the system than losing a daisy or a sunflower, for example. The latter species are closely related. Each could therefore help fill the niche of the other, if one were to be lost. The daisy and sunflower also have a more similar genetic make-up. It may be a sad day for th ...