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Monthly Archives: February 2012

Climate Change Invites Alien Invaders – Is Canada Ready?

USDA and British Columbia:   A comprehensive multi-disciplinary synthesis published in Environmental Reviews reveals the urgent need for further investigation and policy development to address significant environmental, social and economic impacts of invasive alien species and climate change.   Invasive Plants     …why be concerned? Invasive plants pose a threat to our native environment and are [...]
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Bees Action Network

The White Feather Foundation is helping the Bees Action Network in its Daisy Chain Campaign to establish safe havens for bees and other wildlife by the planting of organic seeds in and around London by allotment holders. It is crucial that these seeds are organic or biodynamic as seeds bought from garden centres and nurseries [...]
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Why Are The Bats Dying?

“We have found sick, dying and dead bats in unprecedented numbers in and around caves and mines from New Hampshire to Tennessee. In some hibernacula, 90 to 100 percent of the bats are dying.” White-Nose Syndrome: A Devastating Disease of North American Bats Current News See map at bottom of page White-nose syndrome spreads in [...]
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Global Extinction: Gradual Doom as Bad as Abrupt

Global Extinction: Gradual Doom as Bad as Abrupt In “The Great Dying” 250 million years ago, the end came slowly The geology of Griesbach Creek in the Arctic tells an ancient tale of slow extinction. Credit and Larger Version February 2012 The deadliest mass extinction of all took a long time to kill 90 percent [...]
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