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Early Terrestrial Amphibian Was CarnivorousPittsburgh PA (SPX) Mar 16, 2010 A team of researchers from Carnegie Museum of Natural History has described a new genus and species of carnivorous amphibian from western Pennsylvania. The fossil skull, found in 2004 near Pittsburgh International Airport, was recovered from rocks deposited approximately 300 million years ago during the Late Pennsylvanian Period. Named Fedexia striegeli, it is one of only a very few relatively large amphibian fossils to display evidence of a predominantly terrestrial (land-based) life history so e ... read more |
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Sergelen, Mongolia (AFP) March 15, 2010After enduring a harsh winter last year that killed almost half of her 1,000 head of livestock, Baatariin Erdenechimeg moved halfway across Mongolia in search of a new start. But this winter has been no better - her family has lost a third of its remaining animals and may lose more before the warmer weather returns. "Our animals could not survive that kind of cold," said Erdenechimeg, a ... more  
Washington (AFP) March 15, 2010US Senator John Kerry on Monday introduced a bill to protect whales, sending a message as nations debate a compromise that critics say would end a moratorium on commerical whaling. Kerry's bill, which is similar to a bill before the House of Representatives, would affirm US support for a 1986 ban by the International Whaling Commission (IWC) on commercial whaling. It would also call for ... more  
Beijing (AFP) March 15, 2010Visiting British Foreign Secretary David Miliband on Monday expressed disappointment over the Copenhagen climate summit, a day after China's premier hit back at charges Beijing sabotaged the meeting. Miliband's comments in Beijing underlined lingering strains between the two countries over the December summit since his brother, Climate Change Minister Ed Miliband, said Beijing had "hijacked" ... more |
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Debunking Myths About Amazon RainforestsBoston MA (SPX) Mar 15, 2010 A new NASA-funded study has concluded that Amazon rain forests were remarkably unaffected in the face of once-in-a-century drought in 2005, neither dying nor thriving, contrary to a previously published report and claims by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. "We found no big differences in the greenness level of these forests between drought and non-drought years, which suggests that these forests may be more tolerant of droughts than we previously thought," said Arindam Samanta, the s ... read more |
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