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		<title>Wandering Albatross Alters Its Foraging Due to Climate Change</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 20:14:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Usha Siva</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a wandering albatross in flight in rough sea. (Credit: Paul Tixier/CNRS) ScienceDaily (Jan. 12, 2012) — Wandering albatrosses have altered their foraging due to changes in wind fields in the southern hemisphere during the last decades. Since winds have increased in intensity and moved to the south, the flight speed of albatrosses increased and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ecounderstanding.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7025231&amp;post=530&amp;subd=ecounderstanding&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Climate Change May Bring Big Ecosystem Shifts, NASA Says</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 02:25:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Usha Siva</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Predicted percentage of ecological landscape being driven toward changes in plant species as a result of projected human-induced climate change by 2100. (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech) ScienceDaily (Dec. 18, 2011) — By 2100, global climate change will modify plant communities covering almost half of Earth&#8217;s land surface and will drive the conversion of nearly 40 percent of land-based [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ecounderstanding.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7025231&amp;post=524&amp;subd=ecounderstanding&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ancient Crocodile Competed With Titanoboa, World&#8217;s Largest Snake, for Food, Paleontologists Discover</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 02:31:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Usha Siva</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Top left: University of Florida researchers Jonathan Bloch, left, and Alex Hastings unearth fossils from the 60-million-year-old Cerrejon formation in northeastern Colombia, one of the world&#8217;s largest open-pit coal mines. Top right: Hastings displays a pelvic bone of Acherontisuchus guajiraensis, a 60-million-year-old ancestor of crocodiles discovered at the same site in northeastern Colombia as Titanoboa, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ecounderstanding.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7025231&amp;post=521&amp;subd=ecounderstanding&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rare Siamese Crocodiles Hatched in Lao PDR</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 02:12:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Usha Siva</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recently hatched Siamese crocodile at the Laos Zoo, part of an effort by the government of Lao PDR and the Wildlife Conservation Society to replenish the wild population of this critically endangered species. (Credit: M. Douangmyxay/WCS Laos Program) ScienceDaily (Sep. 1, 2011) — Working with the government of Lao PDR, the Wildlife Conservation Society has [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ecounderstanding.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7025231&amp;post=518&amp;subd=ecounderstanding&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>She&#8217;s Worth Dying For..</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2011 01:46:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Usha Siva</dc:creator>
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		<title>Scientists Discover the Largest Assembly of Whale Sharks Ever Recorded</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jun 2011 20:58:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Usha Siva</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is an aerial photograph of whale sharks feeding at the Afuera aggregation in August 2009. (Credit: Oscar Reyes) ScienceDaily (May 30, 2011) — Whale sharks (Rhincodon typus) are often thought to be solitary behemoths that live and feed in the open ocean. Scientists at the Smithsonian Institution and colleagues, however, have found that this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ecounderstanding.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7025231&amp;post=509&amp;subd=ecounderstanding&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Wetter the Better for Daddy Longlegs &#8212; And Birds</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2011 02:57:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Usha Siva</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Crane fly holding onto wet grass after a rain storm. (Credit: iStockphoto/John Crongeyer) ScienceDaily (Apr. 4, 2011) — Keeping moorland soils wet could prove vital in conserving some of Britain&#8217;s important upland breeding bird species &#8212; by protecting the humble daddy longlegs, according to new research. In spring, thousands of adult crane-flies (daddy longlegs) [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ecounderstanding.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7025231&amp;post=506&amp;subd=ecounderstanding&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Monk Seal and Hump-Backed Dolphin Are Threatened by Fishing Activities Off Coast of Mauritania</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Feb 2011 20:37:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Usha Siva</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Endangered Species]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ScienceDaily (Jan. 25, 2011) — Catalan researchers have studied the marine trophic network in Mauritania, on the north west coast of Africa, which is an extremely heavily exploited fishing area, as well as being home to two of the world&#8217;s most threatened species of marine mammal &#8212; the monk seal and the Atlantic hump-backed dolphin. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ecounderstanding.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7025231&amp;post=495&amp;subd=ecounderstanding&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Newly Discovered Squid Pheromone Sparks Extreme Aggression on Contact</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Feb 2011 20:32:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Usha Siva</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ethology]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Loligo squids approaching and touching the egg capsules, which harbor the contact pheromone that initiates high-level aggression among males. (Credit: Roger Hanlon) ScienceDaily (Feb. 11, 2011) — Scientists have identified a pheromone produced by female squid that triggers immediate and dramatic fighting in male squid that come into contact with it. The aggression-producing pheromone, believed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ecounderstanding.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7025231&amp;post=493&amp;subd=ecounderstanding&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2011 15:27:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Usha Siva</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a close-up of a common red ant (Myrmica rubra). (Credit: Dirk Sanders) ScienceDaily (Feb. 4, 2011) — Research by the University of Exeter has revealed that ants have a big impact on their local environment as a result of their activity as &#8216;ecosystem engineers&#8217; and predators. The study, published in the Journal of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ecounderstanding.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7025231&amp;post=491&amp;subd=ecounderstanding&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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