August 30, 2010 – 7:32 am
What happens to animals which have been removed from their natural habitat because of their status as endangered species? Well, according to TheDailyGreen.com: “Limited attempts at predator reintroduction in the United States have for the most part proven very successful. The gray wolf, extirpated by hunters in the Yellowstone region some 90 years ago, is [...]
November 27, 2009 – 4:43 pm
In 2008 Vladimir Putin shot a five-year-old female tiger with a tranquilizer gun and helped put a transmitter around her neck. The transmitter allowed people to follow the animal’s perusing through Russia’s Far East. On Wednesday Vladimir Krever of the World Wildlife Fund said that the satellite tracking devise has been silent since mid-September; which [...]
August 16, 2009 – 9:06 pm
Want to get an unconventional gift for your South Korean dog-owner friend? This holiday season, swipe a DNA sample of his dog, and then get it cloned for him! You can do this now, because a South Korean biotech firm is going into the (not quite) booming dog-cloning business, looking to clone 1,000 dogs a [...]
August 12, 2009 – 1:25 pm
An area stretching across Bhutan, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Tibet, and China is home to 350 previously unknown species discovered in the past 10 years. One of those is a 100 million year old gecko, the oldest species of gecko ever discovered, that predates the mass extinction of the dinosaurs by 35 million years. Along with [...]
October 7, 2008 – 3:56 pm
How could Coca Cola help our environment? The answer is simple: Cola is black. Oil is black. Can you imagine the possibilities? Environmental terrorists could silently pollute oil reserves with coca cola, therefore making people suspicious of oil, and more likely to switch to alternative sources of energy. Cola is a very acidic liquid. We [...]