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Arctic contaminants threaten polar bears
Polar bears looking for food on the sea ice in Baffin Bay north of Clyde River may find seals to eat, but the seals will likely be loaded with the industrial poisons and pesticides still found in the Arctic air and water.
Living at the top of the food chain holds unseen dangers for polar bears, because they absorb toxic substances, like pesticides and flame retardants, through their diet of seals.
These man-made pollutants originate far to the south, where they’re used in agriculture and industry, even though they can lead to diseases like cancer and birth defects in humans and wildlife.
Nunatsiaq Online - www.nunatsiaqonline.ca
06 Aug 2010
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Photo credit: Jane George
06 Aug 2010
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Photo credit: Jane George
Disease kills 900 birds on Marsh Lake in western Minn.
The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources is blaming a large bird die-off in western Minnesota on Newcastle disease, a viral disease that commonly infects cormorants.
As of earlier this week, about 500 cormorants and 400 ring-billed gulls had been found dead on Marsh Lake near Appleton in Big Stone County.
Erika Butler, a wildlife veterinarian for the Minnesota DNR, said the birds died from what's known as Newcastle Disease, which causes partial or complete paralysis in water fowl.
Minnesota Public Radio - minnesota.publicradio.org
06 Aug 2010
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Location: Marsh Lake, Big Stone County, Minnesota, USA - Map It
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06 Aug 2010
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Location: Marsh Lake, Big Stone County, Minnesota, USA - Map It
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Another leopard found dead
The body of a leopard was found in the Ramgarh block of Nainital District on Wednesday raising the number of deaths of the feline to about 71 in Uttarakhand since January this year.
Locals found the body of the leopard on a road in the Jhutia area of Ramgarh in the morning and informed the Forest Department about it.
According to Nainital Divisional Forest Officer Biju Lal TR who visited the site to recover the body of the feline, the post-mortem examination of the leopard conducted in the Nainital Zoo established pneumonia as the cause of death of the female leopard aged about seven years which had also not eaten for the past eight days.
The Pioneer - www.dailypioneer.com
05 Aug 2010
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Location: Ramgarh, Nainital District, Uttarakhand, India - Map It
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05 Aug 2010
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Location: Ramgarh, Nainital District, Uttarakhand, India - Map It
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White nose syndrome, bats - USA (15) - Archive Number 20100808.2712
There has been a great deal of discussion of possible in-situ treatments for bats affected by WNS among those most actively studying it.
Unfortunately, hibernating bats may or may not have the environmental cues or physical ability to feed in the caves where they hibernate.
They are finely tuned to spend a portion of their lives in torpor; they simply may not have faced a challenge of this type so as to develop a winter feeding strategy.
OTHER WILDLIFE RELATED HEALTH NEWS
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Global hunt begins for 'extinct' species of frogs- DNR: Bacteria 'columnaris' killed Lake Zumbro catfish - Zumbro Lake, Olmstead County, Minnesota, USA - Map It
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- VT To Vaccinate Wildlife Against Rabies
Climate Change
- Oyster Herpes: Latest Symptom of Global Warming?
- High levels of carbon dioxide threaten oyster survival
- Increased Destruction of Bird Populations Are Predicted With Rise in Global Temperatures
- Tiny Fish Evolved to Tolerate Colder Temperature in Three Years, Study Finds
- Coastal creatures may have reduced ability to fight off infections in acidified oceans
