frogs, Tag

Frogs are one of the most diverse animal groups, with a wide range of sizes and colors. Scientists have identified up to 5,000 frog species and believe there are many more waiting to be discovered.[...]

Climate change and the threat to civilization

The Guardian has clearly lost its grip as well! They’ll probably try to tell us next that we all died last year. After they cannot get much more ridiculous.

If NPR’s claims are true, we should be able to see the declining tree numbers and “mass mortality” of forests in forestry data. Objective scientific data, however, show exactly the opposite is occurring.

Peer-Reviewed Publication BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY BINGHAMTON, N.Y. — Climate change may erode frogs’ ability to withstand road salt pollution, according to researchers at Binghamton University, State University of New...

A French judge has sentenced a pond full of frogs to capital punishment. Their crime? Being too noisy. The judge decreed the pond must be drained within 90 days.[...]

El Yunque National Forest, the only tropical rainforest managed by the United States Forest Service, suffered major damage as Hurricane Maria bore down on Puerto Rico as a Category 4 storm...

Scientists found the first fluorescent frog in the world - by accident - in South America. Researchers at Buenos Aires' Bernardino Rivadavia Natural Sciences Museum stumbled across the discovery while studying pigment in...

http://vimeo.com/115082758 A multimedia artist, an animator, and a movie producer have teamed up to make an enchanting short film around the ability that some organisms have to produce light. Tarek Mawad, Friedrich Van Schoor...

People are often accused of anthropomorphizing non-human creatures when their actions "seem" to be similar to human activities, but is it really inconceivable that insects might think and feel the same things we do? What...

People are often accused of anthropomorphizing non-human creatures when their actions "seem" to be similar to human activities, but is it really inconceivable that insects might think and feel the same things we do? What...

Rarely have I witnessed such rampant troll activity as I did on my gently snarky recent blogpost Global Warming Devastates America. There's a reason for that, of course. The alarmists are losing the argument and their incoherent...

Pointing the finger at climate change is the Pavlovian reaction of many scientists and journalists. For as we all know, virtually anything that happens on planet Earth in the 21st century is a result of man-made climate change—more...

Atrazine (the most common herbicide on Earth) has been clogging the news waves lately with a recent study that showed it caused male frogs to become female...

Atrazine is one of the most commonly used herbicides in the world. It is also the most commonly found water pollutant in North America. Outlawed in Europe in 2003 for after some disturbing links to prostate and breast cancer,...