Josh Braun on January 31, 2008 9:07 AM
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No, that's not what they're calling Christian Bale. At least, not that I know of.
"To everyone interested in bat conservation," was the subject line of a letter I turned up in a Google search this morning. So I read it—because, really, who isn't interested in bat conservation?
Don't answer that. Anyhow, it's the story that has Bruce Wayne in tears. Apparently, a somewhat mysterious fungal pathogen is wiping out bat colonies throughout the Northeast. It's called White Nose Syndrome (WNS), because the disease leaves a white moldy-looking ring around an infected bat's nose (insert off-color joke here).
Continue reading 'White Death' >
Ted Alvarez on January 22, 2008 3:38 AM
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Ted Alvarez on December 4, 2007 5:03 PM
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Australian fruit bats could join polar bears and Ed Begley, Jr. as the next potentially imminent casualty of the coming global-warming apocalypse.
In January 2002, 3500 bats died from heat exhaustion, as temps across the eastern Australian coast rose to 43 °C, or 14 °C higher than normal. Researcher Stefan Klose of the University of Ulm in Germany estimates that if warmer temps continue, both grey-headed flying foxes and black flying foxes could face extinction sometime "this century."
Continue reading 'Australian fruit bats join ranks of species threatened by global warming; Batman sheds tears and says 'g'bye, mates'' >
Ted Alvarez on November 28, 2007 6:17 AM
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Today's 60 Second Science podcast is brought to you by those who suffer from chiroptophobia and a fear of eating mud:
Let 'em eat mud
Full transcript after the jump...
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