Word: speciesism
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Yellowstone, established in 1872 as the first national park, has become a focal point in the latest chapter in the epic Battle for the West that has raged for two centuries. The Bush Administration is pushing hard to open up large tracts of public land to drilling, logging, nuclear-waste...
Davis—who just officially launched his re-election campaign last week—and the Democrats seem to have decided that the energy crisis might just knock state Republicans off of the endangered species list. In a long-term contract with power-producers, the state locked itself into...
Scientists are speculating that primitive people alone may have been responsible for the disappearance of more than 100 species of large animals like the woolly mammoth, hunted mainly for food [SCIENCE, June 18]. Stone Age hunters didn't have to use "pointy sticks" to kill the megafauna. They might well...
Your article "Who Killed Woolly?" inspired me to read Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond. He believes that the overkill hypothesis best accounts for the mass extermination of megafauna in Australia, New Guinea, Madagascar and North America, where species were suddenly confronted by able human hunters. Diamond points out...
Learn about the fish that swim in them ... www.fishbase.org (Detail and resources on 25,380 species)