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To: Kayaker who wrote (737)	1/13/2011 8:58:27 PM
From: Giordano Bruno	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 119360

Ok, the media sure has been busy. - Brazil Mysterious killing of fish in coastal Canada Update 1 - 10,000s of Birds found dead in Manitoba Update 1 - Dead Birds and Fish reported in St. Clair River, Ontario Update 1 - Goldstream River, at Goldstream Provincial Park, Victoria mysteriously turns bright green Chile Thousands of Birds fall from the sky in South America China Eagles and Birds are falling from the sky in China Haiti Mysterious fish kill prompts ban Italy Thousands of Doves are Dying Update 3 - Birds Dying In Italy: Thousands Of Turtle Doves Fall Dead From Sky Japan Japan on alert after finding dead birds New Zealand Hundreds of snapper dead on beaches Update 2 - Penguins, petrels and other seabirds, mass deaths Philippines Update 2 - Residents gather, eat dead fish floating in barangay Ibo South Korea Dead Teal Ducks With Bird Flu Strain Found In South Korea South Africa Mystery of dead birds on Cape roads Sweden 50 birds were found dead Hundreds of dead birds found in the middle of the road in Sweden United Kingdom Dead fish discovered in canal marina near Abergavenny Update 1 - 40,000 'devil' crabs found dead on the beach Vietnam Update 2 - Tonnes of farm fish found dead United States of America Arkansas Nearly 3000 Dead Birds Fall >From Arkansas Sky First Birds Fall, Now 100000 Fish Dead in Arkansas Update 4 - Not Just Birds and Fish but People Dropping Like Flies Florida Thousands Of Fish Dead In Spruce Creek Illinois Dead Birds Reported by Residents in Southern Illinois Kentucky Update 1 - Dead birds found in Kentucky, Sweden, as crabs wash up on U.K. shores in latest mass animal deaths Louisiana Mass La. bird deaths puzzle investigators Dead Birds Fall From Sky AGAIN In Louisiana, 300 Miles From Arkansas Incident Days Earlier Maryland 2 Million fish die in Chesapeake Bay, Maryland Michigan Update 1 - Hundreds of Dead Fish Appear In Lincoln Park North Carolina Dead pelican count escalates in Topsail Beach Update 1: Reward offered for information on what's causing dead pelicans at Topsail Beach Tennessee Update 3 - Flock Of Birds Found Dead In Wilson County Texas Update 1 - Now East Texas also reports hundreds of dead birds

To: Kayaker who wrote (737)	1/13/2011 9:29:11 PM
From: bentway	Respond to of 119360

Personally, I'm more concerned with the deaths of frogs worldwide. I think they are the canary in our coal mine. I personally became aware of it about 15 years ago. Used to be, you could catch Houston toads all over Austin, Tx in the summer. Now, I doubt you can find ONE. Frog Deaths Are A Harbinger of "Sixth Mass Extinction" on Earth io9.com Frogs and other amphibians lived through several mass extinctions on Earth over the past 250 million years, surviving the dinosaur wipeout and the most recent Ice Age. But now, say scientists this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, all that is changing. Amphibians are going extinct in such huge numbers that we've entered nothing short of a new mass extinction event. It's the sixth such event in known Earth history. At least one-third of amphibian species are threatened with extinction right now, and even non-threatened species are suffering catastrophic declines in population. Most likely, the causes are global warming and the shrinking habitats where amphibians live. But what merits calling this a "mass extinction"? The researchers explain in a release from UC Berkeley: "There's no question that we are in a mass extinction spasm right now," said David Wake, professor of integrative biology at UC Berkeley . . . New species arise and old species die off all the time, but sometimes the extinction numbers far outweigh the emergence of new species. Extreme cases of this are called mass extinction events, and there have been only five in our planet's history, until now. The sixth mass extinction event, which Wake and others argue is happening currently, is different from the past events. "My feeling is that behind all this lies the heavy hand of Homo sapiens," Wake said. It's hard to say exactly when the mass extinction of amphibians began. It could have been 10,000 years ago, when humans arrived in the Americas and began changing the local environment by hunting. Or it could have been with the dawning of the industrial area, with its chemical pollutants destroying watery environments where frogs live. No matter when the extinction began, Wake and his colleagues believe that it has sped up considerably over the past few decades and shows no sign of slowing down.