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Chinese Superstar Lifts Ivory Cause Onto His Shoulders

March 6, 2014 / Angela Cave / News

Former NBA star Yao Ming is very famous in China, and he’s using his fame on behalf of conservation issues. Now a member of China’s parliament, Yao is calling for a ban on the sale of ivory in China. » E-Mail This

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Key connection

March 6, 2014 / Angela Cave / News

For more than a century, scientists have suggested that the best way to settle the debate about how phenotypic plasticity — the way an organism changes in response to environment — may be connected to evolution would be to identify a single mechanism that controls both. Harvard researchers say they have discovered just such a […]

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Crop Pests “Vastly Underestmated’ Warns Study

March 6, 2014 / Angela Cave / News

The number of different pests plaguing crops in the developing world may be vastly underestimated, contributing to severely reduced harvests in some of the world’s most important food-producing nations, say researchers.

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Duke ordered to stop groundwater pollution at North Carolina coal plants

March 6, 2014 / Angela Cave / News

(Reuters) – A North Carolina judge ruled on Thursday that Duke Energy Corp must immediately stop the sources of groundwater pollution at its 14 coal-fired power plants in the state.

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Norway’s pension fund continues to invest in coal companies destroying Indonesia’s forests

March 6, 2014 / Angela Cave / News

Norway’s massive sovereign wealth fund is continuing to invest in coal companies that are destroying forests in Indonesia despite divesting from forestry and plantation companies with poor environmental track records, reports the Rainforest Foundation Norway.

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From theory to deadly reality: malaria moving upslope due to global warming

March 6, 2014 / Angela Cave / News

Malaria is a global scourge: despite centuries of efforts to combat the mosquito-borne disease, it still kills between 660,000 to 1.2 million people a year, according to World Health Organization data from 2010. Astoundingly, experts estimate that around 300 million people are infected with the disease every year or about 4 percent of the world’s […]

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Marijuana’s anxiety relief effects: Receptors found in emotional hub of brain

March 6, 2014 / Angela Cave / News

Cannabinoid receptors, through which marijuana exerts its effects, have been found in a key emotional hub in the brain involved in regulating anxiety and the flight-or-fight response. This is the first time cannabinoid receptors have been identified in the central nucleus of the amygdala in a mouse model.

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Detailed picture created of membrane protein linked to learning, memory, anxiety, pain and brain disorders

March 6, 2014 / Angela Cave / News

The most detailed 3-D picture yet has been created of a membrane protein linked to learning, memory, anxiety, pain and brain disorders such as schizophrenia, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and autism. The mGlu1 receptor, which helps regulate the neurotransmitter glutamate, belongs to a superfamily of molecules known as G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs). GPCRs sit in the cell […]

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Warmer temperatures push malaria to higher elevations

March 6, 2014 / Angela Cave / News

Researchers have debated for more than two decades the likely impacts, if any, of global warming on the worldwide incidence of malaria, a mosquito-borne disease that infects more than 300 million people each year. Now, ecologists are reporting the first hard evidence that malaria does — as had long been predicted — creep to higher […]

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Peatlands biosphere reserve facing severe encroachment in Sumatra

March 6, 2014 / Angela Cave / News

An important reserve that contains a block of fast-dwindling lowland swamp forest in Riau Province is facing an onslaught of encroachment for illegal oil palm plantations, worsening choking haze in the region, reports Mongabay-Indonesia.

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About The Politics of Species

The assumption that humans are cognitively and morally superior to other animals is fundamental to social democracies and legal systems worldwide. It legitimises treating members of other animal species as inferior to humans. The last few decades have seen a growing awareness of this issue, as evidence continues to show that individuals of many other species have rich mental, emotional and social lives. Bringing together leading experts from a range of disciplines, this volume identifies the key barriers to a definition of moral respect that includes nonhuman animals.

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Themes

  • The Road to Respectful Coexistence

  • Carnal Desires

  • An Animal Bill of Rights?

  • Turning a Whale into a Killer

  • Apeism and Racism

  • What is a Person?

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