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Research reveals fire is pushing 88% of Australia's threatened land mammals closer to extinction

About 100 of Australia’s unique land mammals face extinction. Of the many threats contributing to the crisis, certain fire regimes are among the most pervasive.

The Conversation

Extinction Rebellion plans protest against Bristol Airport expansion

It also wants to see fair fares on public transport

Bristol Post

Rise of the dinosaurs traced back to their adaptation to cold

Covering of feathers left them able to cope when other creatures died off in mass extinction event, scientists say

The Guardian - UK

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Tree Turmoil: Protester Halts Controversial Cutting Of 600-Year-Old Oak Tree

Local politicians want to cut it down as its roots are apparently causing structural damage to nearby houses.

Zenger

Metro Mayor Dan Norris says climate activists are right after campaigners hijacked M32 billboard

The XR group said the buses are in a "dire state"

Bristol Post

Meet the marine biologist on a mission to save sea turtles from extinction

Christine Figgener is working with her husband to save the endangered species

Wales Online

Shrimps and worms ‘were among first to recover after largest mass extinction’

The end-Permian mass extinction – around 252 million years ago – killed more than 90% of species on Earth.

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Stephen Fry urges public to support protest group Extinction Rebellion in new climate change video

The seven minute-long video comes as the group plans its next wave of actions with co-founder Roger Hallam

Chronicle Live

Stephen Fry urges people to back Extinction Rebellion amid fossil fuel ‘crisis’

The actor and comedian threw his support behind the protest group in a video posted to YouTube

Evening Standard

Stephen Fry backs Extinction Rebellion: ‘Something has to be done’

The actor and comedian spoke in a video released by the climate change protest group.

The Independent UK

Antarctica’s only native insect is being driven to extinction by global warming, scientists say

Increase of 2C in winter temperature could reduce the miniscule Antarctic midge’s chances of survival, study finds

The Independent UK

NATO summit protesters play dead in front of Picasso war painting

About 30 anti-war activists protested on Monday in front of Pablo Picasso's historic Guernica painting about the horrors of war at the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid, hours before the start on Tuesday of a NATO summit in the Spanish capital.

Reuters

Extinction on our plates

Reducing the biodiversity footprint of food consumption requires immediate and widespread action

360info

Energy treaty update fails to address climate crisis, activists say

1994 agreement allows investors to sue governments for changes in energy policy that harm their profits

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Mites that mate on our faces at night face extinction threat

Study of tiny parasites points to gene loss from adaptation putting them on dead-end evolutionary course

Daily Record

Parasitic mites that have sex on our faces at night could face extinction

The eight-legged creatures have lived within most people's pores since birth.

ABC News

Microbats face extinction due to climate change, vegetation clearance

The race is on to save the critically-endangered bat which weighs no more than a 50-cent piece. Here's how researchers hope to boost their numbers.

The Guardian - UK

Life will find a way: could scientists make Jurassic Park a reality?

Just a few years from now, herds of woolly ‘mammoths’ could be roaming the Siberian tundra. Are dodos and dinosaurs next for de-extinction?

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Environment report Coalition didn’t release paints ‘damning story of neglect’, Tanya Plibersek says

Minister will release five-yearly report which she says details ‘alarming story’ of native species extinction and cultural heritage loss

ABC News

Tiny arrivals at Guthega skink chalet a big moment in alpine critter's fight back from the brink of extinction

A "special moment" millions of years in the making could be a critical point in a rescue breeding program for the Guthega skink, which is barely hanging on in its alpine homelands.

The Independent UK

Critically endangered tiny marsupial that survived wildfires now facing extinction threat from feral cats

‘There are only around 500 Kangaroo Island dunnarts left in the wild’

The Guardian - UK

Mollusc mass mortality event: can Spain’s giant fan mussels recover?

Pinna nobilis is vital to the Mediterranean ecosystem, but since 2016 numbers have plummeted by 99.9% – and saving it from extinction is no easy task

The Conversation

This critically endangered marsupial survived a bushfire – then along came the feral cats

The Black Summer bushfires of 2019-20 pushed a host of threatened species closer to extinction, including the critically endangered Kangaroo Island dunnart. And as our research released today shows, feral cats posed a second lethal threat to the species in the weeks after the disaster.

AAP

Feral cats a risk to endangered SA dunnart

A university study has found that feral cats are pushing the critically endangered Kangaroo Island dunnart to the brink of extinction.

Al Jazeera

Call for urgent action as Australia faces biodiversity crisis

Former threatened species commissioner says more needs to be done if Australia is to save its unique flora and fauna.

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