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	Greenpeace: Choose Clean Energy - News
		1 in 5 land-based species are at risk of extinction due to climate change effects.
		Greenpeace welcomes this authoritative report as significant confirmation that wind energy offers the clearest path to a low carbon future that minimises the dangers of climate change and allows us to meet Kyoto and UK carbon emission targets.
		World Health Organisation figures indicate that 150,000 people die annually because of climate change impacts.
	www.greenpeace.org.uk /climate/climate.cfm?&UCIDParam=20050524115650 (476 words)

	On Bjorn Lomborg and extinction By E. O. Wilson Grist Magazine Arts and Minds 12 Dec 2001
		Finally, consider that species extinction is increasingly enhanced by pollution, climate change, and the growing flood of invasive species-- hence the foregoing estimates of extinctions based on habitat reduction are, sadly, minimal and modest.
		Although not enough species have been studied this way to produce regional or global extinction rate estimates, the high risk evident in the populations that have been examined is consistent with a high ongoing extinction rate.
		Estimates for current species extinction rates range from 100 to 10,000 times that, but most hover close to 1,000 times prehuman levels (0.1 percent per year), with the rate projected to rise, and very likely sharply.
	www.grist.org /advice/books/2001/12/12/point (1029 words)

	Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology - Vol. 75, No. 4 (2004)
		The predicted changes to birds in Africa — the continent most at risk from climate change — have hardly been explored, yet birds and many other vertebrates face uncertain futures.
		Climate change in southern Africa is expected to involve higher temperatures and lower rainfall, with less predictability and a greater frequency of severe storms, fires and El Niño events.
		Global climate warming, now conclusively linked to anthropogenically-increased CO levels in the earth's atmosphere, has already had impacts on the earth's biodiversity and is predicted to threaten more than 1 million species with extinction by 2050.
	www.ajol.info /viewarticle.php?id=19809 (1029 words)

	Table of contents : Nature
		Biodiversity conservation: Uncertainty in predictions of extinction risk/Effects of changes in climate and land use/Climate change and extinction risk (reply) p
		Biodiversity conservation: Effects of changes in climate and land use p
		A rare fossilized action snapshot captures a mortal tussle with a hungry predator.
	www.nature.com /cgi-taf/DynaPage.taf?file=/nature/journal/v430/n6995/index.html (1153 words)

	Species
		Many species are being put at risk of extinction on a daily basis.
		The change in temperature and climate is affecting species that dwell on land as well as the ocean.
		The share of bird, mammal, and fish species that are now in danger of extinction is in double digits—11 percent of all bird species, 25 percent of mammals, and 34 percent of fish.
	www.solcomhouse.com /species.htm (580 words)

	Global Warming News (2005)
		The ironies are inescapable: evidence of global warming in Africa, and tax breaks for climate change emissions in Britain.
		Global temperatures could rise by as much as eleven degrees Celsius, according to one of the largest climate prediction projects ever run.
		Global warming is shrinking glaciers on the Tibet side of Mount Everest faster than ever, putting world water supplies at risk, Xinhua news agency said on Tuesday.
	www.autobahn.mb.ca /~het/enviro/gw05anews.html (8430 words)

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		Study Shows Big Game Hunters, Not Climate Change, Killed Off Sloths (August 4, 2005) — Prehistoric big game hunters and not the last ice age are the likely culprits in the extinction of giant ground sloths and other North American great mammals such as mammoths, mastodons and saber-toothed tigers, says a University of Florida researcher.
		Smoking Women Married To Smoking Men Have Higher Stroke Risk (August 4, 2005) — In a study of women smokers, those whose spouses also smoked had a higher risk of stroke than those married to nonsmokers.
		No Trouble Removing Oil From Water (August 4, 2005) — A simple tank-and-siphon system for removing oil from oily water and protecting the environment is about to be launched internationally by an engineering team from the University of New South Wales.
	sciencedaily.com /cgi-bin/apf4/amazon_products_feed.cgi?... (8430 words)

	BBC NEWS Science/Nature Climate risk 'to million species'
		Climate change could drive a million of the world's species to extinction as soon as 2050, a scientific study says.
		The study's lead author, Professor Chris Thomas, of the University of Leeds, UK, says: "If the projections can be extrapolated globally, and to other groups of land animals and plants, our analyses suggest that well over a million species could be threatened with extinction."
		The authors say in the journal Nature a study of six world regions suggested a quarter of animals and plants living on the land could be forced into oblivion.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/science/nature/3375447.stm (8430 words)

	Modeled climate and land-use change threatens plant species
		Proteas--plants with large, colorful flowers that are important in the floral trade--are under threat from land-use change and climate change.
		A study based on a multispecies modeling effort for over 300 proteas of the Cape Floristic Region of South Africa suggests that the protected range of proteas is expected to decrease by 36 to 60 percent by 2050 as a result of climate change.
		The modeling work suggests that the risk of extinction for most protea species is likely to increase.
	www4.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2005-02/aiob-mca022805.php (8430 words)

	BBC NEWS Science/Nature Rare birds fall prey to botulism
		The birds' endangered status means ornithologists think they face a very high risk of extinction in the wild in the near future.
		BirdLife says: "The higher than usual winter temperatures that appear to have triggered the outbreak seem to be consistent with anticipated climate change patterns.
		Black-faced spoonbills breed on small islands off the west coast of the Korean peninsula and China.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/sci/tech/2646509.stm (552 words)

	The Millennial Files: Global Climate Change and Warming, Winter 2004
		In the report, the most comprehensive analysis to date of potential species loss from man-made climate change, a team of 19 world scientists predicts that more than 1 million species could disappear, including an Australian tree lizard known as Boyd's forest dragon and a European magpie.
		An international study in the journal Nature reports that more than one-third of all species in several regions of the world are at risk of extinction by 2050 if global warming isn't controlled.
	www.mmmfiles.com /gcWinter2004.htm (2566 words)

	Lord May: The Impact of Climate Change on Humans and Other Species, 7 March 2005
		Next week, energy and environment ministers from the G8 group of industrialised nations will be meeting, and top of the agenda will be climate change.
		Some species may increase in abundance and range, but others will face an increased risk of extinction and threats to their habitats.
		Lord May: The Impact of Climate Change on Humans and Other Species, 7 March 2005
	www.britischebotschaft.de /en/news/items/050307.htm (2566 words)

	The Future and Geography
		Geography is therefore not sitting in an old fashioned dusty corner of the schoolroom, fragmented and ready to be consigned to an academic dustbin but is a modern, unified, challenging discipline whose time has come and whose vision will be ignored at the risk of consigning the human race to the dustbin of extinction.
		At the Environmental Education Association of Southern Africa conference held in Maseru, Lesotho in October 2001, a keynote speaker illustrated how interlinked the many environmental problems of Lesotho are, involving soils, climate change, farming systems and poverty.
		By its very definition, Geography focuses on a spatial range between the size of the Earth (with its diameter of 12,000 km) down to the distance of a few centimeters, although for explanation, geographers will go outside this range to the subatomic or to the rest of the solar system and even beyond.
	www.scienceinafrica.co.za /2002/february/geography.htm (2566 words)

	Extinction risk from climate change : Nature
		Pearson, R. and Dawson, T. Predicting the impacts of climate change on the distribution of species: are bioclimate envelope models useful?
		University of Durham, School of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, South Road, Durham DH1 3LE, UK Animal, Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Private Bag 3, WITS 2050, South Africa
		Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, North Ryde, 2109, NSW, Australia
	www.nature.com /uidfinder/10.1038/nature02121 (3194 words)

	Extinction risk from climate change
		University of Durham, School of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, South Road, Durham DH1 3LE, UK Animal, Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Private Bag 3, WITS 2050, South Africa
		There are Brief Communications Arising (01 July 2004) associated with this Letters to Nature.
		Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, North Ryde, 2109, NSW, Australia
	www.nature.com /cgi-taf/DynaPage.taf?file=/nature/journal/v427/n6970/full/nature02121_r.html&filetype=&dynoptions= (3155 words)

	Extinction risk from climate change Nature 427, 145 - 148 (08 January 2004); doi:10.1038/nature02121 8jan04
		University of Durham, School of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, South Road, Durham DH1 3LE, UK Animal, Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Private Bag 3, WITS 2050, South Africa
		Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, North Ryde, 2109, NSW, Australia
		School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK Center for Applied Biodiversity Science, Conservation International, 1919 M Street NW, Washington, DC 20036, USA
	www.mindfully.org /Air/2004/Extinction-Climate-Change8jan04.htm (3190 words)

	Endangered Species: Cetaceans Introduction
		Collisions with ships and entanglement in fishing gear threaten the North Atlantic right whale with extinction, while the critically endangered Western North Pacific gray whale is at serious risk because of intensive oil and gas development in its feeding grounds.
		Alarm is also growing over other hazards including toxic contamination, the effects of climate change and habitat degradation.
		The organization is also combating risks to whales by lobbying to bring whale hunting under the strict control of the International Whaling Commission, through field research, training and capacity building, conservation education, and by securing improved national and international action and agreements.
	www.panda.org /species/whales (3190 words)

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