We are entering the first mass extinction since the dinosaurs disappeared 65 million years ago
Tag Archives: extinction
A look at extinction and human sloppiness
A review of ‘The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History’ by Elizabeth Kolbert
The last of the species
The final days of the last members of now-extinct species are as darkly comic as sad
The 10 most recent animal extinctions in Canada
These creatures have either died out entirely or are extirpated from Canada
The butterfly effect
Well, something must be terribly wrong, because butterfly populations are plummeting around the globe.
A ban on the bluefin tuna fishery?
Activists say the lucrative bluefin is on the fast track to extinction
How ‘The Beaver’ lost its name
The story of how the Canadian magazine solved its 90-year-old branding problem
Long-legged, and looking for friends
The giraffe population has quadrupled in just 13 years
Dogs are victims in a scary war
The magnificent Ovcharka
The Global Extinction crisis may have been Overstated
Two researchers say the damage to the world’s tropical forests may not be as bad as first feared. Because population growth is slowing in many countries and people are moving to cities, the pressure to cut down primary rainforest and use marginal land for agriculture is falling, according to Joseph Wright of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama and Helene Muller-Landau of the University of Minnesota.