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		<title>Traffic: Why It&#8217;s Time to Get Serious About the Bloody Illegal Wildlife Trade</title>
		<link>http://science.time.com/2013/03/05/traffic-why-its-time-to-get-serious-about-the-bloody-illegal-wildlife-trade/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Mar 2013 13:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan Walsh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Human beings are killers. Not just toward each other, though we do that of course, every hour of every day. We&#8217;re killers of those other species of life that share this planet with us. Some we kill for food, like domesticated animals, or the wild fish and game we harvest from the waters and the forest. Others we kill by as a by-product of modern life, taking their habitat through deforestation or pollution. But many, too many, we simply kill for their parts. Or perhaps murder is the better word. The threat of wildlife trafficking is on my mind, as the biennial meeting of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) continues over the next two weeks in Bangkok. Born 40 years ago, CITES sets the global controls for trade in wildlife, with a focus — at its best — of slowing the slaughter and trafficking of endangered species. For years there was real progress being made in the field. After low points during the 1980s, nations under CITES began to successfully crack down on the illicit ivory trade, which drove the wide-scale poaching of rhinos and elephants in Africa. Between 1973 and 2012, the population of the white rhino in Africa rose from 2,000 to over 19,000 and other endangered species made comebacks, thanks to international sanctions on ivory trade and tougher prosecution on the ground in Africa. But those advances — and the endangered species — are at risk. Last year poaching levels in Africa were at their highest since international monitors began keeping detailed records in 2002. In 2011 a record amount of illegal ivory was seized worldwide: 38.8 tons, equal to the tusks that would be found on more than 4,000 dead elephants. According to CITES&#8217; own numbers, an estimated 25,000 elephants were poached across Africa in 2011, and in South Africa alone 668 rhinos were killed by poachers last year. And the wildlife trade is having a serious impact on biodiversity as well. According to a new study published in the open journal<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=science.time.com&#038;blog=13785469&#038;post=13858&#038;subd=timeecocentric&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Denizens of the Deep: Alexander Semenov&#8217;s Pictures of Undersea Creatures</title>
		<link>http://science.time.com/2013/01/15/denizens-of-the-deep-alexander-semenovs-pictures-of-undersea-creatures/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2013 12:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kari Collins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Growing up in Russia, Alexander Semenov was fascinated by the undersea world. For most of us, a few trips to the aquarium and the occasional scuba dive would be enough to scratch that itch. But Semenov has gone a little further. A 2007 graduate of Moscow State University, Semenov is a zoologist who works at the White Sea Biological Station (WSBS) in northwestern Russia, a major base for marine science research and sustainable coastal management. Semenov is chief of the diving team, which allows him to indulge his love of the deep. &#8220;When I had the opportunity to go diving and see all these things with my own eyes, it was like a dream come true,&#8221; he told me in an email. &#8220;This is another universe, very close to us.&#8221; But what sets Semenov apart is his ability behind a lens. He&#8217;s one of the best undersea photographers working today, and with his camera he&#8217;s been able to bring back images of that other universe, and the strange creatures that call it home. It isn&#8217;t easy—he points out that the conditions of taking photographs deep underwater can be technically complex. Some of the sealife he shoots are virtually transparent, and tiny—less than an inch in size. And of course, as a diver in the open water, Semenov is shooting without any support, simply floating in the water column. (Beginning scuba divers, like me, know how difficult it is to stay still and balanced underwater while on a dive.) And this is in water that&#8217;s only a few degrees above freezing, when visibility is only a few feet at most. He also shoots in laboratory settings, which can be seen in the shots that follow. (PHOTOS: Australia&#8217;s Deep-Sea Creatures) As Semenov told me, though, there&#8217;s something special about photographing in the deep: At the depth in the dark, among the endless muddy fields suspended by one awkward movement, there are a lot of difficulties. But after a few years of work under the water, it all moves into the background, and<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=science.time.com&#038;blog=13785469&#038;post=12910&#038;subd=timeecocentric&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Face to Face with a South American Jaguar</title>
		<link>http://science.time.com/2012/06/11/face-to-face-with-a-south-american-jaguar/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jun 2012 10:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan Walsh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The near threatened jaguar is the only big cat found in the Americas, and it&#8217;s usually quite shy. With good reason — jaguars are hunted for their skins, and their jungle habitat is being cleared for agriculture. And now the cats face a new threat: growing plantations of oil palm, a commercial species that&#8217;s being raised chiefly for biofuels. Planting oil palm — which is becoming increasingly common in South America and Asia — involves clearing native jungle, and while the resulting plantations might resemble forests, the habitat is utterly changed. That can mean real trouble for the jaguars and other species that depend on the forest. Now the conservation group Panthera has found photographic evidence that jaguars are willing to move through oil-palm plantations — which could mean that the cats will be able to better adapt to the change in their environment. Panthera put camera traps — cameras that automatically photograph any animals that come near it — in an oil-palm plantation in Colombia. You can see the results above: jaguars, both adults and cubs, living in the oil-palm plantation. (VIDEO: What Is Killing America&#8217;s Bears? We Are) As more and more native forest is lost, the challenge for conservationists is ensuring that endangered species still have enough room to roam. And for big cats, that can be especially difficult — the species tends to have a large land range. Panthera is moving ahead with its Jaguar Corridor Initiative, which seeks to connect and protect jaguar populations from Mexico to Argentina. Colombia is especially important as the country forms the gateway for jaguars to move from Central America to South America. Said Panthera jaguar-program executive director Howard Quigley in a statement: Human development in the shape of large monocultures, like oil-palm plantations, are drastically changing the face of the planet, creating refugees out of wildcats by breaking up their habitats and forcing them to live within smaller, often degraded, and more isolated pockets of land. Data collected through Panthera’s Jaguar Corridor Initiative are critical for oil-palm growers, national<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=science.time.com&#038;blog=13785469&#038;post=8782&#038;subd=timeecocentric&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why an English Butterfly Is a Rare Winner in Global Warming</title>
		<link>http://science.time.com/2012/05/25/why-an-english-butterfly-is-a-rare-winner-in-global-warming/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 15:56:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan Walsh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Little is expected to benefit from climate change, with the possible exception of air-conditioning manufacturers, Popsicle makers and Canada. But scientists have found at least one species that seems to be better off in a rapidly warming world. In a study published in the current issue of Science, researchers at the University of York report that the brown argus butterfly has increased its range in England northward by about 50 miles over the past two decades. That&#8217;s not unexpected — many species have already responded to recent warming by moving — but what makes the brown argus butterfly different is that the change in range has actually benefited the species. &#8220;Many species are shifting their distributions northwards as the climate warms, but this previously scarce species has surprised everyone by moving its range at over twice the average rate,&#8221; said lead author Rachel Pateman of the University of York in a statement. (MORE: The New Age of Extinction) Why has the move north helped out the butterfly? In its caterpillar form, the brown argus feeds off wild geranium plants, but only in warmer summers — which is exactly what&#8217;s been happening in England and much of the world thanks to climate change. The butterflies can now move from one patch of host plants to the next, moving rapidly through the landscape, expanding their range generation after generation. Over the past 20 years, the brown argus — which was considered scarce in the 1980s — has spread northward and has flourished in much of southern England. As co-author David Roy of the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology in the U.K. put it: The change in diet represents a change to the interactions between species — in this case between a butterfly and the plants that its caterpillars eat — caused by climate warming. Changes to the interactions between species are often predicted to alter the rate at which species shift their distribution in response to climate change; and now we have demonstrated this in nature. The research wouldn&#8217;t have been possible without the<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=science.time.com&#038;blog=13785469&#038;post=8681&#038;subd=timeecocentric&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Can Polar Bears Keep Their Heads Above Water in a Warming World?</title>
		<link>http://science.time.com/2012/05/02/can-polar-bears-keep-their-heads-above-water-in-a-warming-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 10:45:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan Walsh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Polar bears are classified as marine mammals, like a seal or a walrus, which might come as a surprise given that they&#8217;re usually pictured on land. But polar bears spend a lot of their time in the waters of the Arctic, fishing or swimming among the sea ice. They may look awkward in the water, but no creature with paws is a better swimmer. They&#8217;d better be. Arctic sea ice is declining fast, robbing the polar bear of its prime habitat and forcing them to swim longer and longer distances to reach solid ground. No other animal seems to be such a direct victim of warming, which is one reason why the polar bear has emerged as the symbol of climate change. (Another is that they look cute and cuddly—a lot more so than the Panamanian golden frog—although up close that can be a different story.) It&#8217;s a simple narrative to grasp: carbon warms the climate, Arctic sea ice melts and baby polar bears drown. But it turns out it might not be that simple. A new study by scientists at the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) underscores the fact that polar bears really are amazing swimmers—so good that biologists were able to document 50 swims that coverage an average length of 96 miles. The research provides clues that polar bears may be able to keep treading water even as climate change melts their habitat. (MORE: The New Age of Extinction) The researchers, who published their work in the Canadian Journal of Zoology, followed 52 female polar bears in the Arctic Ocean north of Alaska from 2004 to 2009, using radio collars that could track the movements of the animals. (This is even harder than it sounds—the researchers had to use helicopters to fly over the sea ice, locate and tranquillize the subject bears.) They then compared the paths taken by the bears with maps of shifting sea ice over the same period of time, and found that the polar bears were world-class marathon swimmers. And those long, long dips in the<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=science.time.com&#038;blog=13785469&#038;post=8467&#038;subd=timeecocentric&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s the Buzz: Study Links Pesticide With Honeybee Collapse</title>
		<link>http://science.time.com/2012/04/11/whats-the-buzz-study-links-pesticide-with-honeybee-collapse/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 10:45:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan Walsh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Colony collapse disorder (CCD)—the sudden and massive die-off of honeybees—has emerged as one of the most mysterious ecological disasters of the past several years, and one of the most expensive. Around the middle of the last decade, commercial beekeepers began to report that colonies of bees were collapsing without warning, with death rates approaching 30 to 90% of a hive. Even stranger was the behavior of bees in an afflicted colony—worker drones would simply fly away, abandoning their hives and queen to simply die alone in the open. Beekeepers have struggled to adjust, and costs of commerical pollination for crops have soared. About 130 crops in the U.S.—worth some $15 billion a year—depend on honeybee pollination, and if bee populations really did collapse, it would mean an agricultural catastrophe. That&#8217;s why scientists have been working overtime to figure out just what might be causing CCD. Everything from fungi to mites to viruses to bacteria to disruptive new beekeeping techniques have been put against the wall as suspects, with no clear smoking gun. But new research by a Harvard biologist named Chensheng Lu might change that. In a new study to be published in the Bulletin of Insectology, Lu points the finger at the pesticide imidacloprid, a chemical often used on corn plants. Honeybees are now fed with supplements of high-fructose corn syrup—and if Lu is right, we could be killing the bees ourselves. &#8220;We&#8217;ve actually isolated a single risk factor for CCD,&#8221; says Lu. &#8220;We really need to be looking at this data.&#8221; (MORE: Beepocalypse Now?) Imidacloprid is a neonicotinoid pesticide, one developed and deployed in the 1990s to replace more toxic chemicals. Neonicotinoids disrupt insects&#8217; central nervous systems—including bees. Of course, commercial hives aren&#8217;t exposed to such pesticides directly, but neonicotinoids are unusual in that they can spread through the entire vascular system of plants. The high-fructose corn syrup produced from corn plants that have been dosed with imidacloprid can contain trace amounts of the pesticide. Since beekeepers harvest the honey produced in a commercial hive, they need to feed<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=science.time.com&#038;blog=13785469&#038;post=8353&#038;subd=timeecocentric&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Indonesia Punishes Wildlife Traffickers</title>
		<link>http://science.time.com/2012/04/09/indonesia-punishes-wildlife-traffickers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2012 13:38:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jacob Templin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Indonesia has more unique species of mammals, birds, and butterflies than any other country in the world. This diversity has made it a hot-spot for illegal wildlife trafficking, which loses the country an estimated 80 million dollars a year. The further Indonesia’s exotic species are removed from their habitat, the more valuable they become. An orangutan for example, which is only found on two islands in the world, can be purchased for five dollars in Borneo, but can sell for over $10,000 once it leaves the country. Until now, the weak threat of law enforcement has done little to deter traffickers from the lure of these high profits. Even though endangered species are sold in broad daylight at Jakarta’s animal markets, arrests are infrequent. But a pair of recent prosecutions could be a sign that Indonesia is stepping up their fight against illegal animal trafficking. Only two wildlife traders have been successfully imprisoned in Indonesia. The first in 2010, and more recently in February of this year, when a 26-year-old man from Sumatra was given seven months in jail for trying to sell an Orangutan. The Wildlife Conservation Society, an American organization with a crimes unit in Jakarta, assisted with the crime investigation that lead to his arrest. With cameras hidden in watches and keys, I followed a WCS undercover investigator to Jakarta’s largest animal market where he spotted a number of protected species.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=science.time.com&#038;blog=13785469&#038;post=8317&#038;subd=timeecocentric&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How U.S. Soldiers Are Fueling the Endangered Species Trade</title>
		<link>http://science.time.com/2012/02/27/wildlife-wars-how-u-s-soldiers-unknowingly-support-the-endangered-species-trade/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2012 10:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan Walsh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;re a U.S. soldier, abroad on your first deployment in Afghanistan. Like any world traveler, you want to bring a souvenir back home to the family, something they could never get at home. So you visit the local market on base, where Afghan vendors sell carpets, trinkets and clothing. And you pick out something really cool: a white spotted pelt, perfect for a rug. What could possibly be wrong with that purchase? As it turns out, quite a lot—at least for endangered species. According to a study from the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS)—an environmental non-profit that runs the Bronx Zoo in New York—a significant number of U.S. soldiers deployed overseas have purchased products made from wildlife. And in many cases, that wildlife is threatened—like the endangered snow leopard of Central Asia, which could have been killed to make that fine white pelt. Most soldiers aren&#8217;t knowingly purchasing products made from endangered species, but they are inadvertently supporting that trade, which can have serious consequences for conservation. &#8220;The wildlife trade is highly problematic,&#8221; says Heidi Kretser, the coordinator of the WCS North America Programs Livelihood. &#8220;There needs to be awareness raising in the military.&#8221; (PHOTOS: 10 Species Near Extinction) The WCS research began back in 2007 when staff in Afghanistan noticed products made from threatened species being sold on military bases near Kabul. That led to a survey of nearly 400 soldiers at Fort Drum in upstate New York, one of the biggest military bases in the U.S., sending some 80,000 troops a year to Iraq and Afghanistan during the height of the conflicts. WCS found that more than 40% of the soldiers surveyed had either purchased wildlife products or had seen a fellow service member buy one. They reported seeing wildlife items for sale one or off bases in 40 countries, with the greatest number by far in Afghanistan—a fact that makes sense, given that the Central Asian country is home to a number of endangered species, including the snow leopard. (The sheer number of U.S. troops stationed in Afghanistan played a role<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=science.time.com&#038;blog=13785469&#038;post=7951&#038;subd=timeecocentric&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Little People: Will Climate Change Shrink the Species?</title>
		<link>http://science.time.com/2012/02/24/little-people-will-climate-change-shrink-the-species/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2012 22:24:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Kluger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you think there are no new reasons to get freaked out by climate change, try this: there&#8217;s at least a theoretical possibility that a warmer and warmer world could lead to tinier and tinier humans. That&#8217;s the inevitable conclusion of a just-published study of Sifrhippus sandrae, the littlest horse that ever lived. The Sifrhippus sandrae first appeared about 56 million years ago, and it was never a terribly prepossessing creature, weighing no more than 12 lb. (5.5 kg). While it was not exactly built for steeplechase running, its skeletal architecture — not to mention its unmistakably equine face — mark it as a great-great-granddaddy of the modern horse. But while the little critter had a grand evolutionary future in front of it, it came into the world at an unfortunate time — an era known as the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), when a sharp spike in atmospheric CO2 led to a 10ºF (5.5ºC) rise in global temperature. In geological terms, the PETM didn&#8217;t last long — just 175,000 years — but biology moves faster than geology, and plenty of species felt the effects, with some existing ones dying out and other new ones emerging. The Sifrhippus sandrae, it turns out, did something else, shrinking by about 30% to 8.5 lb. (3.9 kg) — or about the size of a house cat — during the first 130,000 years of the PETM. Those findings, reported by a team of vertebrate paleontologists in the current issue of Science, were based on studies of successive generations of Sifrhippus sandrae fossils, and at first, the investigators couldn&#8217;t believe what they were seeing. &#8220;I thought [we] had to be wrong,&#8221; says co-author Jonathan Bloch of the Florida Museum of Natural History. &#8220;But the pattern became more robust as we collected more fossils.&#8221; Bloch and his collaborators could not be sure what was behind the biological downsizing, but they had a pretty good idea it was Bergmann&#8217;s Rule at work. First promulgated by the eponymous German biologist Christian Bergmann in 1847, the rule states that there ought to be<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=science.time.com&#038;blog=13785469&#038;post=7950&#038;subd=timeecocentric&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bat Signal: More than 5 Million Bats Dead From White-Nose Syndrome</title>
		<link>http://science.time.com/2012/01/18/bat-signal-more-than-5-million-bats-dead-from-white-nose-syndrome/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 10:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan Walsh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An animal apocalypse is happening right beneath our noses in the Northeast. Since 2006, bats throughout New York, Pennsylvania, Vermont, New Jersey, Indiana and other states have been infected with a deadly white-nose fungus that has decimated animal populations. But because it is hard to track bat numbers—and because the disease causes afflicted bats to act strangely, often flying far from their nests where they may never be found—it&#8217;s been difficult to pin down just how severe the disease has become. A new estimate released yesterday by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), however, suggests that the toll is far worse than wildlife biologists believed. Between 5.7 million and 6.7 million bats are estimated to have died from white-nose fungus—five to six times more than a previous count done in 2009. Unless the bats can adapt to the fungus—or a treatment can be found—there is a real change that many bat species could be virtually wiped out in the Northeast, with serious consequences for the ecology of the region. Mylea Bayless of the wildlife group Bat Conservation International laid out the consequences of the disease to Darryl Fears of the Washington Post:  We’re watching a potential extinction event on the order of what we experienced with bison and passenger pigeons for this group of mammals. The difference is we may be seeing the regional extinction of multiple species. Unlike some of the extinction events or population depletion events we’ve seen in the past, we’re looking at a whole group of animals here, not just one species. We don’t know what that means, but it could be catastrophic. Catastrophic for the bats, obviously, but possibly for us as well. Bats are voracious insectavores—a single female bat of reproductive age can consume her weight in insects each night. Take away the bats and those insects may thrive—including agricultural pests that can ruin crops, as FWS director Dan Ashe says: This startling new information illustrates the severity of the threat that white-nose syndrome poses for bats, as well as the scope of the problem<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=science.time.com&#038;blog=13785469&#038;post=7703&#038;subd=timeecocentric&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Zom-bees: How Parasitic Flies Are Turning Honeybees into the Buzzing Undead</title>
		<link>http://science.time.com/2012/01/04/zom-bees-how-parasitic-flies-are-turning-honeybees-into-the-buzzing-undead/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 17:51:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan Walsh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Nature Is Scary file: researchers from San Francisco State University announced this week in a new study that honeybees are being turned into &#8220;zombies&#8221; by parasite flies. The fly—known as Apocephalus borealis—deposits its eggs inside the abdomen of a bee. The action is fatal for the bee, as fly larvae eventually hatch and push their way out between the bee&#8217;s head and thorax. But that&#8217;s not the really gross part. Before the flies pop out, Alien-style, the bees start acting strangely, abandoning their hives to gather near lights, flying in a barely controlled fashion. They&#8217;re alive but not alive—bee zombies. And the parasites that cause the transformation may provide a clue to the mysterious colony collapse disorder (CCD) that has devastated honeybee populations in the U.S. over the past several years. MORE: Wildlife: Where Have all the Bumblebees Gone? The study—published in the journal PLoS ONE—was co-led by John Hafernik, a biology professor at SF State, and it came about by accident. Hafernik was searching for insects to feed the praying mantis he had brought back from a field trip, and found some dead bees underneath a light fixture outside his office building. He put them in a vial on his desk and promptly forgot about them for a few days. The next time he looked at the vial, however, he saw fly pupae surrounding the bees. Hafernik and Andrew Core—a SF State graduate student who led the PLoS ONE study—performed a genetic analysis on the flies and found they were the same species that had previously been shown to parasitize bumblebees and paper wasps. Honeybees, though, were a new target, and a surprising one, because the commercially valuable species—they pollinate crops worth some $15 billion a year—is intensively studied. The SF State team surveyed local bee populations and found evidence of the fly in 77% of the hives they sampled in the Bay Area, as well as some hives in California&#8217;s heavily agricultural Central Valley and in South Dakota. That&#8217;s enough to add the parasite fly to the<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=science.time.com&#038;blog=13785469&#038;post=7657&#038;subd=timeecocentric&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Animal Actors: Why Wild Beasts and Hollywood Don&#8217;t Mix</title>
		<link>http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2103595,00.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 16:21:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan Walsh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My weekly Going Green column—one day late because of the New Year&#8217;s holiday—is up on the Time.com mainpage. Prompted by holiday films like We Bought a Zoo, I&#8217;m exploring the role of wild animals in Hollywood, asking whether lions and tigers and chimps really belong behind the camera. Many experts believe that wild animals are different from domestic animals like horses and dogs, which are accustomed to working with human beings and are relatively easy to train. Wild animals are just that, wild—and in the wrong environment they can pose a threat to human beings and themselves, as the tragedy in the Ohio town of Zanesville showed last year. Motion-capture technology—like that used in Rise of the Planet of the Apes—and computer graphics are increasingly giving directors the ability to use wild animals without actually casting them. That might be the best future for animal actors. Click the title for the piece.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=science.time.com&#038;blog=13785469&#038;post=7654&#038;subd=timeecocentric&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Winning the Conservation War: How to Manage the World We&#8217;re Stuck With</title>
		<link>http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2102832,00.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 16:22:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan Walsh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a Going Green column over on the Time.com mainpage today, and it&#8217;s a review of a new collection of essays called Love Your Monsters: Postenvironmentalism and the Anthropocene. Readers of this blog are probably familiar with the editors, Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger, a couple of Bay Area bomb-throwers best known for their &#8220;Death of Environmentalism&#8221; essay from 2005. That also means a lot of people will immediately tune out this book, but that&#8217;d be a mistake—the essays, from a range of authors, grapple with the world and the environment as it is: increasingly human-dominated, one where untouched nature is fast disappearing, never to return. The best piece—by Peter Kareiva, the chief scientist of the Nature Conservancy—explores how we can try to make conservation work in a world where there is less and less room for species other than Homo sapiens. Click above to read.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=science.time.com&#038;blog=13785469&#038;post=7570&#038;subd=timeecocentric&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The DMZ After Kim: What Change in North Korea Could Mean for One of the World&#8217;s Richest Wildlife Refuges</title>
		<link>http://science.time.com/2011/12/19/the-dmz-after-kim-what-change-in-north-korea-could-mean-for-one-of-the-worlds-richest-wildlife-refuges/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 21:23:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan Walsh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[No one knows what will follow the apparent death of North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il. The Hermit Kingdom remains a black box to experts—especially Americans—and while early reports suggest that Kim&#8217;s third son Kim Jong-un will succeed his father, we can&#8217;t tell how long he&#8217;ll remain in power, or whether the onetime Swiss boarding school student will seek to end North Korea&#8217;s isolation. (One of the best guides to the uncertain politics of a sudden transition of North Korean power is this 2009 report from the Council on Foreign Relations.) If the world is lucky, though, the Dear Leader&#8217;s death could be the first step to a thawing of North Korea&#8217;s relations with the rest of the world, leading to an end to the more than half-century long standoff between the two Koreas. We should all hope for such a transition—North Koreans are desperately poor, the Orwellian country on the perpetual brink of famine, thanks largely to Pyongyang&#8217;s straightjacket of an economic policy, even as capitalist South Korea has grown from postwar poverty to become one of the richest economies in the world. But if peace does finally come to the Korean Peninsula, it might have an unexpected side effect: the end of one of the world&#8217;s richest—if unexpected—wildlife refuges. MORE: Environment: Peaceful Coexistence in Korea That&#8217;s the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), the 2.5 mile wide, 155 mile strip of land that stretches across the width of the Korean Peninsula, separating the South and the North. The DMZ follows the Military Demarcation Line established in the 1953 Armistice Agreement between North and South Korea, the pact that suspended the war—though it did not end it, as the two nations are officially in a state of hostility. Heavily fortified and mined, the DMZ is a true no man&#8217;s land, and it&#8217;s been all but devoid of human activity for 61 years. Unlike human beings, however, animals aren&#8217;t bound by the terms of the Armistice Agreement. Quite unexpectedly, the DMZ has become a haven for endangered wildlife, as TIME wrote back in 1978: Abandoned<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=science.time.com&#038;blog=13785469&#038;post=7558&#038;subd=timeecocentric&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Blood Money: Tsunami Recovery Funds Go to Japan’s Whaling Industry</title>
		<link>http://globalspin.blogs.time.com/2011/12/12/blood-money-tsunami-recovery-funds-go-to-japans-whaling-industry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 22:35:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan Walsh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our Krista Mahr has a post over at Global Spin on news that nearly $30 million worth of Japanese post-tsunami aid is going to the country&#8217;s controversial whaling industry. Ironically, one of the (few) positive effects of the massive earthquake and tsunami in northern Japan this past March was that it slowed the whaling trade, both in Japan and in Iceland, one of the few other countries that still hunts whales. (Some of the whaling ports in northeastern Japan were badly damaged by the disaster, while Iceland delayed its fin whale hunt this summer because of reduced demand because of the Japanese quake.) But it looks like the whaling industry won&#8217;t be going empty handed. Click on the title for more.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=science.time.com&#038;blog=13785469&#038;post=7465&#038;subd=timeecocentric&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Stopping Bushmeat Is Good for Conservation—and Bad for Hunger</title>
		<link>http://science.time.com/2011/11/22/stopping-bushmeat-is-good-for-conservation-and-bad-for-hunger/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 18:11:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan Walsh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wrote a piece recently for the paper magazine—sadly behind the paymoat—on the viral ecologist Nathan Wolfe. Wolfe&#8217;s Global Viral Forecasting group has set up research teams in hotspots around the world—places like central Africa, China and Southeast Asia—where animal diseases are likely to cross over to human beings. That spillover has seeded most of new infectious diseases plaguing humanity—including swine flu and HIV—and it tends to happen when human beings and wild animals come into close contact, when blood or other bodily fluids can pass easily from one species to another. And how does that close contact occur? Bushmeat hunting and slaughtering—the practice, long common in parts of the world, of killing wild animals for food. (Bushmeat hunting in central Africa is essentially the same as hunting deer or game elsewhere, except that the primates and other wild animals found in the rainforest and jungle are more likely to carry new and potentially dangerous diseases.) Bushmeat consumption—which is on the rise in increasingly wealthy African cities—is also a major threat to wildlife conservation, with endangered animals like gorillas and chimpanzees targeted for the market. Stop the bushmeat trade, it seems to follow, and you can strike a blow for conservation and for global health. Except, as Wolfe told me when I accompanied him to a poor village in Cameroon, it&#8217;s not that simple: More from TIME: Virus Hunter It&#8217;s not so simple just to shut the ad hoc business down, though. Villagers in Cameroon and elsewhere in Central Africa aren&#8217;t scouring the forest for prey because they want to, as anyone who&#8217;s shadowed a hunter on an hours-long trek knows. Bush meat is virtually the only source of protein available in the countryside, and as African cities have swelled, there&#8217;s additional demand at the market from urbanites who crave a taste of dik-dik or monkey. (It&#8217;s common to see Cameroonians selling freshly killed bush meat along the roadsides.) &#8220;If we could snap our fingers and eliminate all contact with wild game, that would be great, but it&#8217;s an impossibility,&#8221;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=science.time.com&#038;blog=13785469&#038;post=7212&#038;subd=timeecocentric&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Coke Is Going White for Polar Bears</title>
		<link>http://science.time.com/2011/10/27/why-coke-is-going-white-for-polar-bears/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 09:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan Walsh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 125-year-old Coca-Cola Company doesn&#8217;t like to mess with its brand image. That&#8217;s in part because it&#8217;s so valuable—according to Interbrand Coke has the best brand in the world—but also because previous efforts to tweak its image haven&#8217;t always worked out so well, and sometimes lead to things like this. So perhaps it&#8217;s a measure of the company&#8217;s dedication to the environment that Coca-Cola has decided to change the color of its iconic cans for the holiday season—white, to draw attention to the plight of the polar bear. Coke and the environmental group World Wildlife Fund (WWF) have joined together to promote the Arctic Home project, which will involve turning 1.4 billion Coke cans white, emblazoned with the image of a mother polar bear and her cubs pawing through the Arctic. There will also be white bottle caps on other Coke branded drinks, all running from the beginning of November to February. &#8220;In 125 years we&#8217;ve never changed the color of the Coke can,&#8221; says Katie Bayne, president and GM of Coca-Cola Sparking Beverages. &#8220;We really see this as a bold gesture.&#8221; Bold gestures are exactly what the polar bears needs. There&#8217;s a reason the planet&#8217;s largest land carnivores have emerged as the symbols of climate change—perhaps no species is more directly impacted by warming temperatures than the polar bear. They depend on Arctic sea ice as a major habitat and hunting ground, but sea ice is vanishing rapidly, shrinking to its second-lowest level on record this past summer. As the ice melts, polar bears are forced to swim further and further for food—and some, especially young cubs, simply won&#8217;t make it. &#8220;We&#8217;re watching the ice shrink in front of our eyes, and if there is no ice, there are no bears,&#8221; says Carter Roberts, the president and CEO of WWF. &#8220;The polar bears need our help.&#8221; One way to help them, of course, is to reduce carbon emissions and blunt the worst effects of global warming. That&#8217;s&#8230;not really happening all that quickly. So that leaves adaptation, which for polar bears<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=science.time.com&#038;blog=13785469&#038;post=7038&#038;subd=timeecocentric&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Obama Takes Steps to Stop Icelandic Whaling. Could He Do More?</title>
		<link>http://science.time.com/2011/09/16/obama-takes-steps-to-stop-icelandic-whaling-could-he-do-more/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Sep 2011 15:49:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan Walsh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Commercial whaling has been banned since 1986, but some still flout international standards by hunting the animals. Japan gets nearly all the attention—and the reality TV shows—in part because it usually takes more than 1,000 whales a year, but it&#8217;s not alone. Both Norway and Iceland also hunt a few hundred whales commercially, mostly for domestic consumption, though Iceland also exports whale meat to Japan. Norway and Iceland never signed off on the commercial whaling ban and don&#8217;t consider themselves bound by it, and Iceland resumed commercial whaling in 2006, while Japan claims it needs to hunt whales for scientific research. Anti-whaling nations like the U.S. and Australia have pushed to closed loopholes in the annual meetings of the dysfunctional International Whaling Commission without much luck so far, and each year the hunts continue. Yesterday, though, the White House took a half-step forward on whaling, at least with one country. President Obama ordered the State Department and Commerce Department to keep Iceland&#8217;s whaling activities under review, and again urged the government in Reykjavik to end the practice. From theletter to Congress: Iceland&#8217;s actions threaten the conservation status of an endangered species and undermine multilateral efforts to ensure greater worldwide protection for whales. Iceland&#8217;s increased commercial whaling and recent trade in whale products diminish the effectiveness of the IWC&#8217;s conservation program because: (1) Iceland&#8217;s commercial harvest of whales undermines the moratorium on commercial whaling put in place by the IWC to protect plummeting whale stocks; (2) the fin whale harvest greatly exceeds catch levels that the IWC&#8217;s scientific body advised would be sustainable if the moratorium were removed; and (3) Iceland&#8217;s harvests are not likely to be brought under IWC management and control at sustainable levels through multilateral efforts at the IWC. More from TIME: Could Lifting the Whaling Ban Save the Whales? Obama&#8217;s action will put more diplomatic pressure on Iceland, but it falls far short of what the President could do if he wanted. Under the Pelly Amendment, countries that violate global fisheries conservation agreements—like the IWC&#8217;s commercial whaling<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=science.time.com&#038;blog=13785469&#038;post=6803&#038;subd=timeecocentric&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Taking Shark-Fin Soup Off the Menu</title>
		<link>http://science.time.com/2011/09/12/taking-shark-fin-soup-off-the-menu/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 09:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan Walsh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For a delicacy that can command such a high price—and which has caused so much devastation in the sea—shark-fin soup is practically tasteless. I&#8217;ve only eaten it once, during a reporting trip to the industrial Chinese city of Wenzhou more than nine years ago. I was writing about the sex toy king of China—king of manufacturing sex toys, not using them, at least as far as I know—and the two of us went to a banquet hall for a business lunch. He ordered the shark-fin soup—most likely to show that as a prosperous businessman he could afford it—and I had a bowl. It was thin, watery stuff, with golden filaments floating in the broth. It hardly seemed worth the $40 price tag—let alone the shark that had its fin ripped off by a fisherman somewhere. Whatever the taste, shark-fin soup directly leads to the death of tens of millions of sharks each year—and as consumers in Asia, where the soup has long been a delicacy, grow ever wealthier, the toll keeps rising. But that direct relationship means that if conservationists can convince people to stop eating shark-fin soup—or legislators decide to make it illegal—they can squeeze one of the biggest threats to shark populations worldwide. More from TIME: Farewell to Sharks And that&#8217;s exactly what&#8217;s beginning to happen. Last week the California state senate passed legislation that bans the possession, trade or sale of shark fins, sending the bill to Governor Jerry Brown&#8217;s desk. And over the weekend the Toronto City Council voted to support a ban on the sale and consumption of shark fin. That&#8217;s a state and a major city—both of which have large Asian populations—where shark-fin hasn&#8217;t been hard to get. California joins Hawaii, Oregon and Washington as the fourth American state to pass such a ban. Michael Sutton, vice-president for the Monterey Bay Aquarium&#8217;s Center for the Future of the Ocean, celebrated California&#8217;s move: It’s a great day for sharks in California. They may now actually survive for another 450 million years. More from TIME: Shark Attack<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=science.time.com&#038;blog=13785469&#038;post=6755&#038;subd=timeecocentric&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>One Baby Gorilla Is Rescued From Poachers—But Others Aren&#8217;t So Lucky</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s easy enough to get the public interested in the great apes when you plaster James Franco’s handsome face on a movie poster and promise visual effects on the level of Lord of the Rings and King Kong. But these animals get other types of attention too – the wrong kind. On Sunday a baby mountain gorilla named Ihirwe was rescued from the clutches of poachers trying to smuggle her into Rwanda from the Democratic Republic of Congo, mostly to be traded as a pet or sold and butchered for some of her parts. “The good news is that this infant was rescued before it was too late and is now in good hands,” Eugène Rutagarama, director of the International Gorilla Conservation Program (IGCP), said in a statement. “The bad news is that people believe there is a market for baby mountain gorillas and are willing to break laws and jeopardize the fate of a critically-endangered species at the chance for profit.” More from Ecocentric: Why the Apes Aren&#8217;t Going to Rise Thankfully things turned out well for Ihirwe – she was found alive, is under the watchful eyes of caregivers at a Rwandan facility, and will soon join fellow orphan gorillas Maisha, Kaboko, Ndeze, and Ndakasi at Virunga National Park’s Senkwekwe Center in the DRC. “We are cautiously optimistic for this little one – she is tense, but accepting of people, and is eating. All good signs for her eventual recovery,” Jan Ramer of the Mountain Gorilla Veterinary Project said in a statement. And Ihirwe can rest assured that her poachers – a group of Rwandan and Congolese men – won’t be back: they’ve been taken into custody in Rwanda, and a serious investigation into a possible bigger network of poachers is underway. But Ihirwe is one of the lucky ones – most gorillas that fall victim to poachers aren’t so fortunate. She’s also one of the only 786 mountain gorillas believed to remain in the mountains of Rwanda, Uganda, and the DRC. With habitat destruction, regional conflict, and hunting<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=science.time.com&#038;blog=13785469&#038;post=6482&#038;subd=timeecocentric&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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