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...extinction scientists will link to global warming, but it certainly won't be the last. Last year, the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change estimated that if global temperatures increase more than two to three degrees F above current levels - which seems quite possible, given current trends in carbon emissions - up to one-third of the species on Earth could be at risk for extinction. "We're already seeing nature react badly to climate change," says Larry Schweiger, the president of the National Wildlife Federation. "We're changing the rules of the game...
First, conservationists say, we need to do everything we can to slow carbon emissions and reduce the impact of climate change. "That's priority number one," says Mittermeier. But some degree of warming is inevitable, so conservationists have to prepare. That means creating not just reserves, but safe nature corridors that would allow wildlife to migrate in the face of rising temperatures. Another method is to try to connect existing reserves through reforestation - a technique already underway in Madagascar, where the government is looking to vastly increase the total amount of protected land. What's certain is that we need...
...Environmental Hero" Shai Agassi claims that electric cars produce no carbon emissions. But the electricity to run such a car must come from somewhere. Unless the car happens to be in a nation that draws its power entirely from renewable sources (sadly not the case anywhere), electric cars serve only to shift the location where fossil fuels are burned. Ronan Evans, Jerrabomberra, New South Wales...
...study says running a fan in a baby's room can lower the risk of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) 72%. By circulating air, fans may prevent infants from breathing in exhaled carbon dioxide, a possible cause of SIDS. Infants still need to be placed on their backs when being put to sleep: that practice has helped cut in half the number of SIDS deaths since...
...Samson told me that stricter regulations would simply push egg producers out of state, hurting local business while enlarging the carbon footprint of importing eggs into California...