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Research professor of the Higher Council for Scientific Research (CSIC) in the Donana Biological Station, Miguel Delibes, today addresses a conference entitled “Biodiversity and Conservation in the XXI century ‘, which will address the extinction of species” to continue at this pace, by 2050 will have lost half of biodiversity, “he said.
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A scientific team from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) has succeeded in identifying the scope of the Middle Miocene climate change through the analysis of fossil tooth enamel. It is a virtually new line of research in our country
Illustration of some mammals at present in the reservoir.
Some twenty million years ago, during the Middle Miocene, began a period of relatively high temperatures at which followed more than six million years, a period of global cooling and aridity linked to the restoration of the Antarctic polar mass. Usually science delves into the tracks left by this event through the analysis of the marine fossil record, or on the mainland, by studying the remains of organic matter or soil well preserved.
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 Dr. Jorn Hurum, Natural History Museum and the University of Oslo, shows a fossil of ‘Ida’.
A team of scientists announced today the discovery of the fossilized skeleton of a monkey-lemur 47 million years ago could become the missing link in human evolution. The fossil, they have called Ida has been presented today at a special press conference in New York.
The discovery of 95% of the skeleton of a monkey-lemur has been described by experts as “the eighth wonder of the world,”
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The U.S. Geological Survey (Ed.: USGS, close by the BRGM certain functions but also IFEN) has published a study showing that mercury contaminates all fish sampled in 291 streams or rivers in the country. These works are part of the National Water-Quality Assessment Program (NAWQA), which provides a comprehensive periodic assessment of water quality. His interest is in a uniform method of collecting and analyzing data, both in time and space, allowing for meaningful comparisons across the United States.
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| Category: Environment | Tags: anthropogenic emissions, atmosphere, coal power plants, dense forest, ecosystems, forests, mammals, mercury, methylmercury, National Water-Quality Assessment Program, neurotoxin, organisms, pollution, toxic, wetlands |
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