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Wild Animals News

Wild Animals

Wild Animals are a big environmental concern because they play such vast and important roles on the planet, and humans continuing to damage it through carbon emissions, deforestation and other environmental destruction will result in the loss of many of these vital contributors to Earth's ecosystems. (Photo: iStockphoto) 

Articles about Wild Animals

  • America's 10 worst man-made environmental disasters

    Mon, Jun 14 2010 at 12:50 PM

    Mankind has been behind some of the nation's worst environmental catastrophes.

  • Official: Oil spill hasn't reached Great Salt Lake

    Mon, Jun 14 2010 at 11:29 AM

    Breach of underground Chevron Corp. pipeline sends oil into tributaries.

  • Plenty of Gulf oil spill volunteers, not enough work to do

    Fri, Jun 11 2010 at 8:11 AM

    The Gulf spill has brought out thousands of people who want to help, but BP has said it will use only trained workers and professionals.

  • Rescuing oiled birds in Gulf: Poignant, but is it futile?

    Thu, Jun 10 2010 at 8:38 AM

    Critics call bird-washing a wasteful exercise in feel-good futility that simply buys doomed creatures a bit more time.

  • Hummingbirds are nature's most perfect helicopters

    Tue, Jun 08 2010 at 1:30 PM

    Hummingbirds are often heard well before they are seen -- a welcome harbinger of spring and summer.

  • Oil from BP spill found 40 nautical miles away, official says

    Tue, Jun 08 2010 at 1:08 PM

    Massive "plumes" of oil are suspended in the Gulf waters, greatly complicating any hope of cleaning up the spill.

  • Oil will damage Southern coast for years

    Mon, Jun 07 2010 at 12:24 PM

    At least 20 million gallons of oil have spilled into the sea, contaminating miles of Louisiana coastline and threatening rare birds and wildlife.

  • Wildlife crews work to save brown pelicans

    Sun, Jun 06 2010 at 7:56 PM

    The bird was removed from the endangered species list in November.

  • Gulf oil spill: Animals can't escape the muck

    Sat, Jun 05 2010 at 9:23 AM

    Thousands of barrels of oil continue to gush into the Gulf each day, threatening the lives of 400 species.

  • Squirrels adopt orphaned relatives ... sometimes

    Fri, Jun 04 2010 at 12:08 PM

    Red squirrels may not be territorial loners. Research shows they may adopt nearby orphaned relatives under special circumstances.

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