The Western Wall, the Queen Elizabeth 2, Iceland's financial meltdown, and more are featured in our picks of the week's news photos.
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Bird species worldwide are in decline—a sign that the planets health is also faltering, according to a new report.
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A "hairy" crab, spiky sea stars, and a bright red shrimp are among the 274 new species found during a research survey of Australia's deep ocean.
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A recession would likely push conservation to the bottom of government priority lists for years to come, warns an expert who says environmentalists should be "really worried."
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A magnitude 6.4 earthquake struck near the Tibetan capital of Lhasa, killing at least nine people.
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Iceland's glaciers could all be gone by the next century, thanks to global warming, a new government report says.
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The 2008 Red List of Threatened Species details dismaying trends. A new "Dow Jones index" approach aims to stem the tide by tracking selected species like stocks.
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A five-year review done by experts from 130 countries paints a grim picture for the world's 5,487 known mammal species.
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Some bald eagles are turning to seabirds as their main food, and in a roundabout way, the new diet is traceable to a 1990s otter collapse, researchers say.
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Truffle hunters in France believe global warming has led to an increase in parasitic attacks on wild truffles—spurring a boom in hothouse versions of the luxury fungus.
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A newly announced ban on all parrot sales in Mexico may keep the country's exotic birds from dying during clandestine smuggling operations, conservationists say.
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Growing acidity in the world's oceans may create an underwater racket that hinders whales and other animals that rely on sounds for survival, a new study says.
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Research is underway to turn algae into biodiesel that developers hope could eventually fuel jet airplanes.
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An Earth-spanning boundary separates the Northern Hemisphere's pollution from the more pristine atmosphere of the south, a finding that could help map future movements of harmful chemicals.
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A temperature-driven trend toward more females and fewer males in Australia's spotted skink may increase populations in the short-term, a finding that contradicts previous studies.
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In South America's highlands warmer temperatures and shifting precipitation patterns are seriously affecting staple crops such as the potato.
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Springer spaniels are training to do battle to save an Australian island from a rabbit boom. The rabbits are destroying vegetation, thereby threatening other species.
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Amazon forests in Brazil are shrinking three times faster than in 2007, officials say. A key culprit is the national government itself, according to reports.
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Workers recently began installing donated solar panels on the papal auditorium's roof, part of Vatican City's efforts to reduce its carbon footprint.
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Huge waves may have hurled massive coral boulders onto the South Pacific island of Tongatapu within the last 7,000 years, according to scientists who think a volcano triggered the tsunami.
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