July 18, 2019
Stories tagged "extinction"
July 9, 2019
New England Aquarium Releases “Munchkin” a Rehabilitated Loggerhead Sea Turtle into the Wild
We LOVE stories like this one! Last Tuesday, the New England Aquarium released back into the wild Munchkin, the largest sea turtle it had ever rehabilitated — it was found last November on a Massachusetts beach emaciated and near death after being entangled in...June 27, 2019
Six North Atlantic Right Whales Now Found Dead This Year
Since we reported on the death of a young male North Atlantic Right Whale a few weeks ago, there have been five more dead whales found in Canadian waters, the latest one discovered just yesterday and a total of four in the last three days. In response, Transport...June 20, 2019
New US-Canada Study Shows Right Whale Deaths Overwhelmingly Caused by Humans
A joint U.S.-Canada scientific paper published yesterday in the journal Diseases of Aquatic Organisms looked at the causes of death for 70 North Atlantic right whales within the 16-year time period between 2003 and 2018 and found that of the 43 for which the...June 12, 2019
Marine Life Declines Considerably In Worst Case Climate Crisis Scenario
A new study published on Tuesday by the National Academies of Science found that all the marine life in the ocean will decline by one-sixth by the year 2100 under the high emissions global warming scenario but on by 5% if we can stay within the low emissions scenario...Plant Extinction is Happening 500x Faster Than Before the Industrial Revolution
While we cover animal species extinctions a lot in ODP, but plants are also struggling to survive in a world that’s rapidly being altered by climate change. According to a new study published in the journal Nature Ecology and Evolution, 600 plant extinctions...May 15, 2019
Koala Bears On Road to Extinction
The Australia Koala Foundation reported on Tuesday that the population of these beloved animals is in steep decline in many areas of Australia, and estimates are that only 80,000 remain in the wild, which makes the species “functionally extinct.” There are...May 8, 2019
After the UN Extinction Report — Now What?
The United Nations report on the extinction crisis that came out on Monday made a relatively big splash. ICYMI, a group of scientists called the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), determined that biodiversity is...May 6, 2019
Giraffes Under Consideration for US Endangered Species Listing
As we reported yesterday, biodiversity is declining at a precipitous rate, according to a new report by scientists from across the globe produced for the United Nations. In an effort to save one of the most iconic species on the planet — the African giraffe...May 5, 2019