Posts Tagged ‘animals’

• Scientists fine-tune extinction rate projections

  The journal Nature recently reported that modern methods of measuring animal populations are too simple and often do not take into account the complexity of what influences species numbers. Professor Stephen Hubbell, from California, and Professor Fangliang He, from China, …

• Watch: Indiscriminate logging in Latvia is fueled by Britain’s markets

  Al Jazeera English takes a closer look at the forests in Latvia which are being cut down at an unsustainable rate in one of their recent episodes of People & Power. “The Baltic nation of Latvia is blessed with some …

• The cruel life inside a factory farm

  The emergence and intensification of agriculture is the basis for human development as we know it. But our path towards a more intensive farming system has made factory farming or industrial agriculture the norm in "civilized" high-tech nations. And in …

• Nearly 50% of the world’s primates face extinction report says

  According to a newly released report by the IUCN Primate Specialist Group says that “almost 50 percent of the world’s primates are in danger of extinction.” The report points out that habitat destruction and hunting are the two main threats. …

• A Picture is Worth… Albatross Carcass

  This image shows the corpse of an albatross that has had his gut filled with different plastic objects. Many birds and animals often mistake plastics with food and then, as you might imagine, starve to death. I’ve seen this picture …