The ocean is a complex web of marine life, with many species being driven to extinction year after year.
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All three of Aristotle, neoliberals, and Marx presume that the most important thing about us humans is our shared species being as pretty much naturally equal organisms.
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And a back-of-the-envelope calculation based on the 1.8m sorts of organism recognised so far as species under the Linnaean system, on the rate at which new species are being discovered and on such ecological matters as the average number of parasites (themselves new species) that each free-living species harbours, suggests the final total may be around 30m.
In Europe alone, about 700 new species are being discovered each year, says Fontaine.
In Europe a different species is being developed by the Norwegian Institute of Technology to help fight fires.
Forester Jean Francois Pagot admits that the most valuable species are being depleted because they're not being replanted.
The environmental campaign Greenpeace says it has found evidence that walruses and other Arctic species are being affected by climate change.
New species are being discovered in Antarctica all the time.
Governments, he said, were no longer seeing these species issues as being about biodiversity - they were seen as threats to national security.
It has sidestepped the only public forum that exists to discuss whether action is needed to save a species that is being fished, traded and eaten to extinction.
That study found that 93 percent of the species were stabilized or improving since being put on the endangered species list and 82 percent were on pace to meet recovery goals.
He ends by finding a hopeful, almost Romantic, optimism, while still clearly seeing the pessimistic psychological limitations of being the species we are.
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Nevertheless, many species that have not been listed long enough to reach their recovery goals increased dramatically since being protected by the Endangered Species Act.
Scientists with Conservation International on Monday announced the discovery of 10 new species in what's being referred to as a safe haven for frogs located in the west of the country on the border with Panama.
However, far from being a single species, it has split into six lines, one of which colonised India and the Middle East, and then spread to Europe at the dawn of agriculture about 10, 000 years ago.
It is now 95% complete and is continually being updated as new species are discovered.
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At the same time, community plantations with fast-growing tree species for use as fuelwood are being introduced, as well as 10 000 efficient wood-burning stoves.
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Take the question of whether we are the only species to care about the well-being of others.
In what is being described as the first inter-species computer chat, Koko will use her skills to answer questions from curious humans through the Internet provider America Online (AOL).
New species of duck-billed and horned dinosaurs were being born at an explosive rate of every few hundred thousand years during the brief time when the two mountain ranges and the seaway coexisted.
The species are listed on the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List - a comprehensive source of information on the status of wild species facing a high risk of global extinction - as being 'vulnerable'.
In summary, Dr Saetre and his colleagues have vindicated Dobzhansky and thus confirmed a mechanism for the origin of species that is directly caused by natural selection, rather than being an accidental by-product of it.
As a result (and because of the fact that the Marine Corps has come close to being disbanded several times), Marines are a proud species.
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The studies together indicate that math ability is inborn in many species, with number sense, mathematical skills and verbal ability perhaps being separate talents in humans that we later learn to combine.
It is being funded by SNH, People's Trust for Endangered Species, Tubney Charitable Trust, Cairngorms National Park Authority, the Scottish government, the European Union and local action groups.
The restrictions also mean that an exporting country now has an obligation to determine that the number of trees being cut down is not detrimental to the survival of the species.
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This is because an area may have many rare species, but not enough living matter to, say, prevent a coastline from being eroded.
An incredible 28 different species accounted for the rest of the samples, with 17 of those varieties not being even in the snapper family.
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Scientists studying cancer in two very different animal species, Tasmanian devils and dogs say they found evidence that some cancer cells are being passed between animals through physical contact, like sex or biting.
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