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Topic: extinction risk
Bees are disappearing. Fast. But their extinction wouldn't just mean a world without honey: it would mean a world without food, clothes, flowers or birds.

How the extinction of bees could kill us all

Environment

May 03, 2010

Although some fisheries have been pulled back from the edge of collapse in recent years, the waters still look muddy for the future of the world's fish, with many populations nearing a "tipping point" for destruction from which they cannot recover.

Is it too late to save the world’s fish?

Environment

Jul 31, 2009

Australia, New Zealand and Pacific islands are likely to become the "extinction hot spots" of the globe, mainly thanks to the human destruction and degradation of ecosystems.

Humans causing the “sixth extinction” of species

Environment

Jul 30, 2009

While the global economic crisis will be temporary, the effects of the climate crisis will be irreversible.

Climate Crisis — we must act, here’s how

Politics

Oct 31, 2008

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Extreme weather wakes US up to climate change ... 77,000 die annually in Asia-Pacific from climate change ... Sedentary, not migratory birds, face higher extinction risk ... Are clean planes a lot of hot air? ...

State of the planet

Asia

Jun 29, 2007

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