Environment

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October 25, 2011 - Only one of four large regions of the United States showed a significant relationship between carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere and the size of floods over the last 100 years. This was in the southwestern region, where floods ha...

Oct. 25, 2011 - WWF and the International Rhino Foundation (IRF) have confirmed the extinction of the Javan rhinoceros (Rhinoceros sondaicus annamiticus) in Vietnam. Genetic analysis of 22 dung samples collected by a Cat Tien National Park - WWF surve...

Oct. 25, 2011 - Recent PhD research at Leiden University by the Beninese researcher Etotépé Sogbohossou has demonstrated that safari hunting may have serious impact on lion social structure and lion densities. Etotépé did four years of field resea...

Oct. 24, 2011 - The Moscow heat wave last year was, with high probability, the result of climate change – contrary to what some have assumed. With a likelihood of 80 percent, it was not natural short-term climatic variability but the long-term warmi...

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Oct. 20, 2011 - Major challenges associated with migration and environmental change 'have been underestimated', according to a major new report. The report by Foresight is based on advice from a six-strong team of experts, including Professor David Tho...

Oct. 24, 2011 - The effects of deforestation in Amazonas reach far beyond the local areas, as these forests make up a key part of the earth's hydrological and climatological system, which, for example, affects the scope of climate changes. In other wor...

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