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Study: Global Warming Is Driving Lizards to Extinction
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on May 13th, 2010
Times Magazine: Species can respond to global warming in two ways: adapt and survive, or die. Biologists foresee climate change driving many species to extinction over the next century, especially those that are unable to adjust rapidly enough. Plants and animals evolved to survive in specific ecological niches, and while some may adapt to new environments - and many have already - for many others, it will take time. But the changes driven by human-generated greenhouse gases may be coming on too ...
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Climate change to kill off a fifth of world’s lizards: study
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on May 13th, 2010
Agence France-Presse: Global warming could kill off as many as a fifth of the world's lizards by 2080, with potentially devastating consequences for ecosystems around the world, a study released Thursday said. Researchers who conducted a major survey of lizard populations worldwide said in a study published in the May 14th issue of Science that lizards appear to be especially sensitive to the effects of climate change and are dying off at an alarming rate. The loss of the lizard populations could ...
Obama to force BP to pay more cleanup costs for Deepwater disaster
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on May 13th, 2010
Guardian: Barack Obama has set out new measures to force BP to pay more of the costs of the cleanup operation for the Deepwater oil rig disaster. BP, which has released the first underwater footage of the spill, told the City this morning that the cost of dealing with it had now hit $450m. The company's eventual bill looks set to rise steeply after the White House proposed scrapping a cap on its liability for the spill. Boosted by a poll that showed the public did not regard this as ...
Lizards face extinction from global warming – study
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on May 13th, 2010
Reuters: Lizards are in danger of dying out on a large scale as rising global temperatures force them to spend more time staying cool in the shade and less time tending to basic needs like eating and mating. Scientists warn in a research paper published on Thursday that if the planet continues to heat up at current rates, 20 percent of all lizard species could go extinct by 2080. "The numbers are actually pretty scary," said lead researcher Barry Sinervo from the University of ...
U.S. response to spill frustrates environmentalists
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on May 13th, 2010
Reuters: The U.S. government response to the BP oil spill has frustrated environmental groups and Gulf Coast conservationists, who say they're getting scant information about the disaster's potential ecological effects. "There's a lot of concern now about the marine impact and we're not getting a truly transparent response from NOAA (the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)," Aaron Viles of the Gulf Restoration Network said on Thursday. Viles acknowledged that this kind of ...