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The wonders of eBay allowed the scientists to purchase a $130 bag of 20,000-year-old woolly-mammoth hair from a vendor in Moscow, and the wonders of science allowed them to extract the mammoth's genetic information in the most successful attempt to date to sequence an...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cloning | 11/21/2008 | See Source »

The ongoing economic crisis has brought down corporate giants such as Lehman Brothers, prompted the major buyout of Merrill, and sent many outbound Harvardians into the real world without the comfort of a surefire money-making contract in their back pocket. But while we’ve all been watching...

Author: By Frances Jin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Uh-0-2138 | 11/5/2008 | See Source »

“If you want to choose one development that is likely to cause the greatest number of species to reach endangerment or extinction in the next twenty years, it is the oil palm,” said Wilcove, who teaches biology and ecology courses at Princeton.

Author: By Evan T. R. Rosenman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Princeton Professor Warns of Cultivation Threat | 10/24/2008 | See Source »

While the impact of climate change on human populations is likely to be dire, we're pretty good at adapting to change overall. Animals, however, are not. When their habitats change irrevocably - when the rain forest dries up or cool mountains in tropical zones heat up - animals may simply go...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Climate Change Will Impact Animals | 10/13/2008 | See Source »

The toad may be the first animal whose 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Climate Change Will Impact Animals | 10/13/2008 | See Source »

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