Blogging the End of the World™
Published: 07 January, 2010 IN the last few years, there have been several serious causes for concern as far as wildlife conservations is concerned and perhaps none more so than with seabirds. Around Scotland, including the Highlands, there are many important international colonies of seabirds. These are sometimes in very large numbers such as gannets, […]
Iguanas Go Into Hibernation State In Cold Weather POSTED: Wednesday, January 6, 2010UPDATED: 3:10 pm EST January 6, 2010 HOLLYWOOD, Fla. — Record lows across South Florida are literally freezing the invasive iguana in its tracks. Kamikaze iguanas, plummeting from their treetop perches, have long been a Floridian urban legend. On Wednesday morning, Local 10 […]
First it was colonists who put the Ogiek on reserves in Mau Forest. After freedom corrupt officials drove them out as they set up farms. Now a reforestation effort has forced them even farther away. By Robyn Dixon, January 4, 2010 Mau Forest, Kenya – For centuries, the little-known Ogiek people foraged wild honey and […]
Scientists warn of ecological catastrophe across Asia as glaciers melt and continent’s great rivers dry up By Geoffrey Lean, Environment Editor, Sunday, 7 May 2006 Global warming is rapidly melting the ice-bound roof of the world, and turning it into desert, leading scientists have revealed. The Chinese Academy of Sciences – the country’s top scientific […]
By Matthew Berger WASHINGTON, Jan 4 (IPS) – As 2010, the U.N.’s International Year of Biodiversity, gets underway, a fight against some of the most damaging invasive species in U.S. waterways is heating up. The U.N. says some experts put the rate at which species are disappearing at 1,000 times the natural rate, and invasive […]
An extended time series of the regional mean aragonite saturation state for the Greater Caribbean Region derived using the NOAA extended reconstructed SST (ER SST V3b; red curve) with the Experimental Ocean Acidification Product Suite v0.3 values derived from satellite SST overlaid (blue curve). The global mean (green curve) is estimated from the representative SST […]
By Brigitte Weidlich (AFP) WINDHOEK — An old man gently touches the trunk of the huge quiver tree with a worried look on his wrinkled face, as he points at several dead branches lying on Namibia’s rugged terrain. “When I was a boy, my grandfather made my first quiver from a branch of this old […]
Tuesday, January 05 2010 @ 04:24 PM MST Leading University of Montana researchers have released results of a new study that shows climate change will increase drought stress in northern Rocky Mountain forests, leading to increased potential for insect infestations and risk of more frequent and severe wildfires. The peer-reviewed study, conducted by UM forestry […]
By MUCHEMI WACHIRA, Posted Monday, January 4 2010 at 20:00 Loggers have been destroying parts of the Aberdare Forest, one of the country’s five main sources of water. With the Mau Forest being the main focus of attention, conservationists appear to have forgotten the other key sources of water. A spot check by the Nation […]
By Frank Pope, Ocean Correspondent The world’s most expensive bluefin: this is a headline we haven’t seen the last of. Prices will keep on going up as the fish career towards extinction in the face of an inability to control fishing fleets. While prices will continue to go up, the weights per fish will go […]
