extinction
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Those honeybees you’re so worried about? They’re killing off wild bee species.
A new study shows that viruses infecting domestic honeybees are spreading to wild pollinators.
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Climate change’s deadliest effects are unfolding under the sea
A new study shows that sea creatures like crabs, lobster, and fish are dying off at twice the rate of cold-blooded land animals.
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First mammal goes extinct because of climate change
The Bramble Cay melomys lived on an island in the Great Barrier Reef ... until sea levels started rising.
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Climate change could wipe out the internet’s favorite animal
The red panda is, without a doubt, the most adorable animal to ever walk the earth -- and now they're in trouble.
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What would the planet look like without lichen?
Lichens are "exquisitely" threatened by climate change, and could go extinct within a century.
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Take an interactive tour of the world’s (cutest) vanishing species
This website shows you just how cute these 30 highly endangered species are.
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After not seeing one for 33 years, Japanese government finally declares river otters extinct
When you truly love somebody that’s gone missing, you never admit that she’s gone, even if you’ve seen neither hide nor hair of her for 33 years. So now we know how the Japanese government feels about the Japanese river otter. Because the Ministry of the Environment just declared the river otter, last spotted in […]
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Mean Tasmanian devils get cancer; nice ones don’t
In the epic songs that Tasmanian devils sing in the future (assuming that Tasmanian devils can sing, and that there are any left to sing epic songs), this period will likely be known as one of suffering and retribution by some angry god for the unrighteous behavior that has spread among the devil population. Because […]
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One-fifth of creepy spineless animals could disappear forever
Most species are spineless piles of goo. That’s not a value judgment: About 80 percent of the world’s species are invertebrates, which actually do lack spines. Metaphorically, though, it is we who are the spineless piles of goo, for standing by while these creatures disappear. A new report from the Zoological Society of London found […]