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Medical records show that cases of West Nile Virus (WNV) infections are far less likely to occur in settled areas that have a wide variety of bird species living inside. Scientists believe that this happens because birds are poor viral carriers altogether. In other words, mosquitoes are far less likely to bite birds,... |
9 October 2008
06:53 GMT |
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New researches conducted on the impact wind turbines have on biodiversity proved that the European Commission has nothing to worry about. Farm birds are not about to be decimated by the turbines, as doom-sayers “foretold.” The findings are actually quite important, as the Commission has plans of supp... |
1 October 2008
07:05 GMT |
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With the help of data regarding the fossils of as much as 4,000 known species of mammals that lived on Earth up to 60 million years ago, Aaron Clauset of the Santa Fe Institute and Douglas Erwin of the National Museum of Natural History created one of the most accurate computer models that estimates how the body size... |
18 July 2008
10:43 GMT |
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The way birds are able to distinguish between their own eggs and those of parasitic layers such as cuckoos has kept scientists mystified for a long period. At the same time, everybody seemed to have forgotten that birds are able to see much more differently than us and that their eyes are, in fact, capable of observi... |
15 July 2008
11:22 GMT |
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Man's desire to fly is known to have existed ever since the earliest recorded history. To fulfill his dream, man turned to nature and tried to copy the winged creatures, most of the times such attempts ending in disasters. We only have to look at today's flying machines to understand to that we have never r... |
7 July 2008
06:47 GMT |
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According to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, climate change is now severely affecting the population of birds around the world. The IUCN meeting taking place this week in Bonn, Germany, has updated the catalogue of 1226 species of threatened birds in the Red List of endangered bird species rel... |
20 May 2008
09:01 GMT |
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Man has always been fascinated by the mysteries of flight and dreamed of conquering the skies and achieving the grace of birds. Icarus from the Greek legends flied with wings of wax, but got too close to the Sun, his wings melted, and he fell to the ground. The great Leonardo da Vinci, artist and Renascence inventor ... |
15 January 2008
08:22 GMT |
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Early this month, a storm raging in the waters of the Black Sea led to a catastrophic oil spill, as the oil tanker seeking refuge wrecked in the Kerch Strait, and leaked over 2,000 tons of petrol. As a result of the havoc, the WWF inspectors evaluating the situation came to the conclusion that it would take at least ... |
30 November 2007
10:53 GMT |
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