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Climate-Change Fungus is Wiping out Frogs
An infectious fungus aggravated by global warming has killed entire populations of frogs in Central and South America and driven some species to extinction. >> Read the Full Article
Zoos Part of U.S. Effort to Detect Avian Flu
Breeding grounds in Alaska where migratory birds from Asia and North America mingle are a focus of a broadening U.S. bird flu detection effort that is enlisting American zoos as sentinels, experts said Tuesday. >> Read the Full Article
Authorities Investigate the Death of Some 2,000 Chickens in Trinidad
Trinidad's health minister called for calm Tuesday after 2,000 chickens died at several farms on this Caribbean island in the past five days, insisting that he doubts bird flu was the cause. >> Read the Full Article
Warming May Cut Duck Numbers
A professor from the University of Montana had a simple message Tuesday in Arkansas: if you like hunting ducks, support international efforts to prevent global warming. >> Read the Full Article
U.S. Starts Debate on Allowing Grizzly Bear Hunting
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service initiated a public debate Monday over its plan to lift federal protections from grizzly bears in the Yellowstone National Park area. >> Read the Full Article
Marine Water Invaders on Most Wanted List
The sea slime alarm was sounded in 2002. Scientists discovered small, dense mats of a strange gooey creature on the ocean floor more than 100 miles offshore. >> Read the Full Article
Expert Says Resources Needed for Montana Bears
A federal grizzly bear expert contends wildlife managers desperately need more resources to monitor the threatened bears in northwestern Montana. >> Read the Full Article
Fishermen Say Chinook Salmon Are Smaller
Tanana fisherman Charlie Campbell doesn't need scientific studies or empirical data to prove Yukon River chinook salmon -- the mighty king of the species -- are getting smaller. >> Read the Full Article
Conservationists Sue Over Nevada Butterfly
Conservationists filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Thursday, seeking federal protections for a rare Nevada butterfly against off-road vehicles at one of the largest sand dunes in the West. >> Read the Full Article
India Begins Count of Threatened Tigers
Armed with radio collars and high-tech cameras, hundreds of wildlife experts fanned out across a vast mangrove in India's east on Thursday as part of the world's largest census of the endangered tiger. >> Read the Full Article