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| High Achievement High Schoolers The text transcript is currently not available. [More] rss.sciam.com |
Bald eagles succumb to poison in rat eradication on Alaskan island Last month we reported on bald eagles and other birds found dead after a rat eradication project in Alaska’s Aleutian Islands. The National Wildlife Health Center in Madison, Wis., has confirmed that the birds were casualties of brodifacoum, the poison used in bait scattered around Rat Island by helicopter.“Every one of the liver samples tested positive for brodifacoum,” U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service spokesman Bruce Woods told Scientific American. Fish and Wildlife law enforcement agents are investigating whether there were any egregious errors and to assess that the poison drop was conducted according to an approved protocol, Woods said. [More] rss.sciam.com |
Is the Frog-Killing Chytrid Fungus Fueled by Climate Fluctuations? This much is clear: frogs are dying. [More] rss.sciam.com |
Search for world's rarest lemur pays off Heading into the jungles of Madagascar in search of the world's rarest lemur--the greater bamboo lemur ( Prolemur simus )--was a gamble that paid off, said Damian Aspinall of The Aspinall Foundation . An expedition of scientists from the foundation, Conservation International (CI), Association Mitsinjo, and GERP (Groupe d'Etude et de Recherche sur les Primates de Madagascar) searched hundreds of miles of Madagascar forests and found evidence that the bamboo lemur lives in at least 11 sites not previously known to science . [More] rss.sciam.com |
24 Sites Cut From City Plan for 290 Parks Shrinking funds have led New York to scrap two dozen of the new play areas Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg pledged that the city would open by 2030. nytimes.com |