John Cleese on Science
Updated: 2010-04-27 04:20:48
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Photographs from the Guardian Eyewitness series
This year, Mongolia is affected by a “dzud”, a natural disaster consisting of a summer drought, followed by heavy snowfall with extreme cold temperatures. The heavy snowfall and extreme cold temperatures (up to -50 degrees centigrade) have lead to a massive death of the livestock. According to the National Statistical Office of Mongolia, over 5 [...]
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Today’s Species of the Day is the Darwin’s frog (Rhinoderma darwinii). This is one of our EDGE amphibian focal species, along with its only close relative, the Chile (or Northern) Darwin’s frog (Rhinoderma rufum).
The two species of Darwin’s frogs are only known from the temperate forests of southern Chile and just into Argentina, and they [...]
The African elephant is extremely intelligent, highly adaptable, and exhibits remarkable social cohesion. This species is also the IUCN Species of the Day and is ranked by the EDGE of Existence programme as the 77th most important mammal for conservation because it is both unusual and threatened.
The African elephant (Loxodonta africana) and the Asian elephant [...]