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How many species could go extinct from climate change? It depends on how hot it gets. : NPR

Two Kea birds, Arthurs Pass South Island New Zealand. The species is listed as threatened in that country and climate…

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Discovering the traits of extinct birds

Looking to inform the conservation of critically endangered bird species, University of Utah biologists completed an analysis identifying traits that…

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Björk’s new installation brings extinct and endangered animal sounds to Paris : NPR

Björk’s soundscape, Nature Manifesto, is currently playing for visitors who travel on the escalator at Paris’ Centre Pompidou. Manuel Braun/Centre…

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Rare fossils of extinct elephant document the earliest known instance of butchery in India

During the late middle Pleistocene, between 300 and 400 thousand years ago, at least three ancient elephant relatives died near…

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In Chile a language once declared extinct, stirs back into life : NPR

Ilia Reyes Aymani, Kunza researcher and teacher in her home in San Pedro de Atacama, Chile. Cristóbal Olivares for NPR…

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How a Distillery Created an Award-Winning Whiskey From a Near Extinct Corn Variety

Ann Marshall and Scott Blackwell didn’t set out to help save a part of the country’s agricultural history when they…

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Extinct volcanoes could hold rare earth elements

Earth’s extinct volcanoes might be an untapped source of highly in-demand rare earth elements. A set of lab-based experiments revealed…

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Your Favorite Bananas Are Rapidly Going Extinct Due to a Fungal Disease — Here’s What to Know

The bananas you enjoy in the morning, with your cereal, smoothies, with a scoop of peanut butter, in your banana…

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Fossils of an extinct animal may have inspired this cave art drawing

Extreme Climate Survey Science News is collecting reader questions about how to navigate our planet’s changing climate. What do you…

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This spider makes its home in the burrows of extinct giant ground sloths

Deep in the unyielding darkness of a Brazilian cave, a pale, blind, spiny beast carefully feels its way across rust-colored…

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