By AMIA MCDONALD, age 11 Researchers have found that many freshwater fish and amphibians were wiped out in the past 40 years partly because of the discharge of drugs. PHOTO: Wikimedia Commons There is an ongoing global wildlife crisis, and according to new research...
By OWEN ARNOT, age 9 Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer with the first coelacanth discovered alive in 1938. PHOTO: Wikimedia Commons The coelacanth (pronounced “see-la-kanth”) is a rare fish that is found near northern Sulawesi, Indonesia and in the western Indian Ocean....
PHOTO: Flickr.com/SantiMB More than 20 percent of the world’s wild plant species may face extinction in coming years according to a study published in the magazine New Scientist. About two-thirds of the endangered plants grow in tropical rainforests. The biggest...
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