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Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Biology, Ecology, Endangered Species, Environment, Evolution, Video on 01 30th, 2012 | 1 Comment

Snakes on a Glade

Florida has been wrestling with its python problem for years. Thanks to the tropical temps in south Florida the Everglades National Park has become a dumping ground for unwanted reptiles, particularly the non-native Burmese python. Wildlife officials have been battling the snakes for about twenty years....

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Discoveries, Endangered Species, Featured Articles, Plants, Video on 01 5th, 2012 | No Comments

Parasitic Fly Could Explain Bee Disappearance

In 2006 bees began disappearing. Entomologists have never been exactly able to pinpoint the cause of syndrome, which they now call colony collapse disorder. It occurs when the worker bees abandon the hive and the whole system falls apart. No one knows why the bees leave. Some have suggested they get...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Adaptation and Extinction, Animals, Climate Change, Discoveries, Endangered Species, Featured Articles, Marine Science, Video on 01 4th, 2012 | No Comments

Sharks Begin Climate Adaptation Strategy

Recently scientists in Australia discovered that two species of sharks are interbreeding. The common black-tip shark and the Australian black-tip shark have started producing hybrid sharks. Marine biologists in Queensland say they’ve found 57 sharks so far. The common black-tip shark is found...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Adaptation and Extinction, Animals, Atmospheric science, Biology, Climate, Climate Change, Endangered Species, Environment, Marine Science, Oceanography, Physics and Chemistry, Video on 12 1st, 2011 | No Comments

Arctic Region Warms into New Climate State

In 2006, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration began monitoring the Arctic region, creating an annual report card to mark rapid change occurring there. Five years in and the news isn’t good. The 2011 Arctic Report Card shows that the entire region is changing dramatically. Ice, both...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Backyard Science, Biology, Citizen science, Discoveries, Diseases, Endangered Species, Environment, Marine Science, Math, New Species, Video on 08 25th, 2011 | No Comments

Millions of Species Yet to be Discovered

According to a new study it could take 1,200 years, 300,000 researchers and $364 billion to identify and catalog all the species on Earth. New research in the online journal PLoS Biology, a publication of the Public Library of Science uses a new way of calculating just how many plants and animals inhabit...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Adaptation and Extinction, Animals, Climate Change, Endangered Species, Environment, Evolution, Genetics, Plants, Video on 08 22nd, 2011 | No Comments

Climate Change Pushes Species Up and North

A meta-study in the journal Science says – changing global temperatures are pushing species towards the poles and higher altitudes. A meta study is a study that rounds up all the other related studies (in this case 54) and analyzes them for trends or patterns that emerge. After looking at the...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Discoveries, Endangered Species, Video on 07 26th, 2011 | No Comments

Endangered Species Found in Multiple Conservation Efforts

After an 87-year absence the Borneo rainbow toad has been discovered or rather rediscovered. A group of 126 researchers have scoured the rainforests and mountains of 21 countries on 5 continents in 2010 in search of lost amphibian species. After three months of night-long expeditions, one of Dr. Indraneil...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Adaptation and Extinction, Animals, Climate Change, Endangered Species, Environment, Marine Science, New Species, Oceanography, Plants, Video on 06 27th, 2011 | 1 Comment

Northwest Passage Opens for Whales, Plankton Not Just People

This video from May 2010 tells the tale of a gray whale lost, half a world away from home. Biologists immediately thought it was a hoax but after studying the 43-foot whale more closely they discovered that it must have gotten off it’s north-south Pacific Ocean migration track thanks to an ice-free...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Adaptation and Extinction, Animals, Climate Change, Endangered Species, Environment, Marine Science, Oceanography, Video on 06 22nd, 2011 | No Comments

Ocean under Siege

For decades fishermen have been saying there’s no future in fishing. Environmentalists have been warning about overfishing and pollution harming the ocean’s delicate ecosystem. But so far the ocean has been able to absorb everything humans have thrown at it. The summary of a new international...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Ecology, Endangered Species, Environment, Food and Nutrition, Health and Medicine, Video on 05 25th, 2011 | No Comments

Girl Scouts Lobby Kellogg’s to get Palm Oil out of Cookies

Two feisty 15 year olds are pushing Girl Scouts of the USA to remove palm oil from their popular cookies. Rhiannon Tomitshen and Madison Vorva learned that palm oil plantations are used to grow a key ingredient in all girl scout cookies and that ingredient requires farmers to destroy rainforests to...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Adaptation and Extinction, Animals, Climate Change, Endangered Species, Video on 05 11th, 2011 | No Comments

Polar Bear Single Mothers

ABC’s Neal Karlinsky takes a look at the special bond between Polar Bear mothers and their cubs. Outside of Churchill, Manitoba in the high Canadian Arctic, the most well-studied polar bears emerge from their winter dens. Every year wildlife photographers flock to the frozen north in late spring...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Ecology, Endangered Species, Environment, Greenovation, Horizon Oil Spill, Marine Science, Oceanography, Video on 04 18th, 2011 | 1 Comment

BP Oil Spill: The Gulf of Mexico One Year Later

One year after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill scientists believe the health of the Gulf of Mexico is back to where it was before the massive environmental disaster. In a recent survey, most scientists agreed that the health of the Gulf is about 68 out of 100. That is almost in line with the pre-spill...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Ecology, Endangered Species, Greenovation, Podcast, Video on 04 13th, 2011 | No Comments

Polar Bear Surprise

Imagine waking from a long nap — a little disoriented and still groggy — only to find the world you left when you went to sleep is totally different. A mother polar bear had that very Rip Van Winkle experience on a man-island off the coast of Alaska. When she emerged from her den after hibernation,...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Ecology, Endangered Species, Environment, Podcast, Politics, Video on 03 29th, 2011 | No Comments

Tigers Creep Back from the Brink

India’s latest tiger census shows an increase in the numbers of the endangered big cat, but threats to their roaming territory could reverse those gains, officials said on Monday. At a three-day tiger conference in New Delhi(PDF) Indian officials released the latest tiger census. The news appeared...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Anthropology, Endangered Species, Podcast, SciLebs, Video on 03 22nd, 2011 | No Comments

NFL Cheerleader turns to Life of Science

Mireya Mayor explores remote areas of the world is search of elusive and endangered species. The wildlife expert and anthropologist also educates students and parents about the importance of conservation wherever she goes. After watching the movie Gorillas in the Mist before practice one day, the former...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Anthropology, Bioethics, Biology, Endangered Species, Video on 01 18th, 2011 | No Comments

Japan to Revive Extinct Mammoths

It sounds like something right out of Jurassic Park but scientists in Japan have plans to bring the long-extinct mammoth back to life using cloning technology within the next 5 years. Akira Iritani, a professor emeritus at Kyoto University in Japan, is looking to resurrect the woolly mammoth using a...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Endangered Species, Environment, Horizon Oil Spill, Marine Science, Oceanography, Video on 07 14th, 2010 | 1 Comment

Scientists Study Gulf Oil Spill Impact on Marine Life

University of Florida’s Neil Hammerschlag is studying whether sharks along the Gulf Coast of Florida can sense oil and move away from it. Hurley the hammerhead shark disappeared from satellite tracking two days after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill as researchers were studying migration patterns...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Biology, Endangered Species, Environment, SciClips on 01 20th, 2010 | No Comments

Make Room for the Mesopredators

The top predators in every animal niche are disappearing. Development and other forces are pushing these animals toward the brink of extinction. New research shows that conservation efforts and a plan to return apex predators to the wild may be more cost-effective than trying to control the predators...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Biology, Climate, Climate Change, Endangered Species, Oceanography, Physics and Chemistry, SciClips, Video, Weird Weather on 01 13th, 2010 | No Comments

Cold Snap Masks Global Warming for a Minute

Much of the country and for that matter the Northern Hemisphere has been locked in an icy weather pattern that sent records tumbling and even forced Florida produce growers to seal oranges and strawberries in ice to protect them from frigid temperatures. Some scientists are saying this is yet another...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Biology, Climate, Diseases, Endangered Species, Featured Articles, Genetics, Health and Medicine, Podcast, Politics, SciClips on 01 10th, 2010 | No Comments

The Growling Uncertainty of Science

One thing is for sure. Science doesn’t do certainty. No matter how close a researcher gets to complete certainty there is always room to know more. Therefore uncertainty is a scientific fact. And we need to get comfortable with it. From taxonomic tussles over classifying the giant panda to more...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Biology, Endangered Species, Marine Science, SciClips, Video on 12 18th, 2009 | 1 Comment

Sea Turtle Flies to Miami

An injured hawksbill sea turtle flew First Class from the Caribbean island of Curacao to Miami on Tuesday. Little Anita rode in her own seat, next to marine biologist Alina Szmant. The endangered turtle is now settling into her new home at the Hidden Harbor Marine Environmental Project’s “Turtle...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Biology, Climate Change, Endangered Species, Environment, SciClips, Video on 12 17th, 2009 | No Comments

Tree Kangaroos Fate Up in the Air

Matschie's Tree Kangaroo courtesy of Woodland Park Zoo Climate negotiations over how to limit carbon dioxide emissions are heating up in Copenhagen. But one other important area negotiators are addressing — how to sequester existing CO2. Climate sinks — like oceans, forests and permafrost...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Adaptation and Extinction, Animals, Biology, Climate Change, Ecology, Endangered Species, New Species, SciClips on 10 23rd, 2009 | 1 Comment

Tiny Frog Now Big Hawaiian Pest

A little green frog is causing big problems across Hawaii, where the coqui has become the latest invasive species to get a strong foothold. But Hawaii may be the only place experiencing a surging frog population. Around the world, frogs are dying in droves from a fungus called a chytrid. What can we...

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