By DAVID JOLLY9 April 2012 The other day, a ninth-grade student e-mailed me to ask about the plight of the bluefin tuna. What, he wanted to know, should the government be doing to help keep those endangered fish alive? As a journalist with an interest in marine conservation, I’ve written extensively on the (mostly unsuccessful) […]
By JOHN UPTON7 April 2012 A clerk serving Cantonese-speaking customers at a cluttered market in San Francisco’s Chinatown reached into a tub of American bullfrogs. She drew a one-pound frog from the top of the pile. She whacked its head, sliced its neck and placed its body in a plastic grocery bag. The frog cost […]
By Marla Cone30 March 2012 LONG BEACH, California – Kelp off Southern California was contaminated with short-lived radioisotopes a month after Japan’s Fukushima accident, a sign that the spilled radiation reached the state’s coastline, according to a new scientific study. Scientists from California State University, Long Beach tested giant kelp from the ocean off Orange […]
SANTIAGO, Chile, 5 April 2012 (AP) – Chile’s Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected challenges by environmental groups to a hydroelectric dam project in the wilds of Patagonia. The ruling upheld an earlier decision by an appeals court in the southern city of Puerto Montt, which decided the project doesn’t violate the constitutional rights of those […]
By Ben Raines, Press-Register5 April 2012 The stench of death was heavy along the rocks of Dauphin Island’s Katrina Cut last week. Midway across the mile-wide rock wall, wedged between two boulders at the water’s edge, a dolphin carcass washed back and forth in the gentle waves. Most of its backbone protruded from skin bleached […]
By Michael Buteau 2 April 2012 Even truckloads of ice may not be enough to maintain one colorful tradition of the Masters Tournament by the time the golf season’s first major championship begins this week. Most of the thousands of azaleas that line the fairways of Augusta National Golf Club probably are already in […]
VIDEO: Wrecked ship Rena’s stern sinks in NZ Stern of container ship MV Rena sinks off a New Zealand holiday spot due to rough seas, Maritime New Zealand says. Rough Cut (no reporter narration). Stern of cargo ship Rena sinks in rough seas Technorati Tags: coral,pollution,Oceania,oil spill,penguin,ecosystem disruption,habitat loss
By Jesse Emspak, LiveScience Contributor2 April 2012 Radioactive material from the Fukushima nuclear disaster has been found in tiny sea creatures and ocean water some 186 miles (300 kilometers) off the coast of Japan, revealing the extent of the release and the direction pollutants might take in a future environmental disaster. In some places, the […]
By Alison Benjamin, www.guardian.co.uk29 March 2012 In July 1994, French beekeepers reported that their honeybee population had displayed strange, agitated behaviour and had “melted away”. “Mad bee disease,” as it quickly became known, was thought to have caused the death of 40% of bee colonies and beekeepers looking for an explanation for the catastrophe began […]
23 March 2012 (Climate Central) – For most of the country spring has sprung earlier this year, but is this anything more than a single warm year? It seems that it is. During the past several decades, with the exception of the Southeast, spring weather has, indeed, been arriving earlier. In the interactive map, you […]
