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Koalas in Australia may Disappear

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by News on May 19, 2012

Koalas in Australia may disappear in 50 years, says the WWF The population of koalas decreased 42% in the last two decades and has suffered from habitat loss and new diseases… The Australian Government has cataloged koalas as a “vulnerable species” in the list of threatened animals The environmental organization WWF warned that the population [...]

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First Forecast Calls for Mild Amazon Fire Season in 2012

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The model was first described last year in the journal Science. Comparing nine years of fire data from NASA’s Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the Terra satellite, with a record of sea surface temperatures from NOAA, scientists established a connection between sea surface temperatures in the Pacific and Atlantic oceans and fire activity in [...]

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Unexpected Allies Aid Ants at War with “Zombifying” Parasite

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Via World Science Trop­i­cal ants plagued by a par­a­site that turns them in­to “zom­bies” have un­ex­pected al­lies in their strug­gle: oth­er par­a­sites, sci­en­tists say. A group of “zomb­i­fy­ing” par­a­sites known as Ophio­cordy­ceps are fun­gi that hi­jack ants’ brains. The fun­gus them al­ters an­t’s brain mech­a­nisms so that the in­sect march­es to its death, all in [...]

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Celebrate Cinco de Mayo 2012 Under a Supermoon!

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Via EarthSky Supermoon? What’s a supermoon? According to U.S. clocks, the full moon falls on May 5, 2012 at precisely at 10:35 p.m. Central Daylight Time. This same full moon falls on Sunday, May 6 at 3:35 Universal Time (UT) – the standard time at the prime meridian of 0o longitude, or, for example, in Greenwich, England. What [...]

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Decades of Data Show Spring Advancing Faster Than Experiments Suggest

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Plants are leafing out and flowering sooner each year than predicted by results from controlled environmental warming experiments, according to data from a major new archive of historical observations assembled with the help of a NASA researcher. Researchers use experiments that manipulate the temperature of the environment surrounding small plots of plants to gauge how [...]

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