Desdemona has a pretty thick skin for catastrophe and mass death, but sometimes an ultra-violent killing spree seems like the only solution. Adult Swim presents Polar Bear PaybackUPDATE: Adult Swim no longer hosts this game, but fortunately it lives on at Crazy Games: Polar Bear Payback. Thanks to reader Emily for the research!
By Chris McGreal in Washington, Terry Macalister and Adam Gabbatt www.guardian.co.uk, Thursday 29 April 2010 20.16 BST The United States mobilised its military tonight in an attempt to help deal with the vast oil slick spreading across the Gulf of Mexico amid predictions that it will begin to hit the Louisiana coast within hours and […]
By Associated Press & KING 5 Staff Posted on April 19, 2010 at 7:38 PM OLYMPIA, Wash. — Biologists who examined a gray whale that died after stranding on a West Seattle beach say it had a large amount of garbage in its stomach — ranging from a pair of sweat pants to a golf […]
ScienceDaily (Apr. 9, 2010) — A few years ago, right whales began washing up on the shores of Argentina’s Patagonian coast. So far, researchers have counted a total of 308 dead whales since 2005. These right whales in the waters around Peninsula Valdés are amidst the largest die-off of great whales ever recorded. Whatever […]
Kevin Rudd, the Australian prime minister, has promised to review shipping rules after a Chinese coal ship ran aground as a result of taking an “outrageous” short cut through the environmentally sensitive Great Barrier Reef. By Bonnie Malkin in SydneyPublished: 12:33PM BST 06 Apr 2010 Mr Rudd, who on Tuesday flew over Douglas Shoals where […]
SAFFRON HOWDEN, TOM ARUP AND BEN CUBBYApril 6, 2010 A PLUG made of compressed coral and held in place by water pressure is likely to be the only thing stopping more than 900 tonnes of oil gushing from a grounded bulk coal carrier onto the Great Barrier Reef. Salvage experts – some from the team […]
The government of Norway announced on April 1st, perhaps hoping the unseemly news would be lost amid the fictitious headlines of the day, that the country’s whale hunting quota would be raised to the highest level in 25 years: 1286 whales can be killed this season. The announcement has some animal protection groups scratching their […]
Editing by Jerry NortonSYDNEYMon Apr 5, 2010 3:56am EDT SYDNEY (Reuters) – A stranded Chinese coal ship leaking oil onto Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is an environmental time bomb with the potential to devastate large protected areas of the reef, activists said on Monday. The ship was a “ticking environmental time bomb,” Gilly Llewellyn, director […]
The decline of the central California breeding population cannot be attributed solely to any single threat listed below, but instead is the result of a combination of multiple threats. In some cases, exposure to one threat may make the animals more susceptible to the others (e.g., high level of contaminants may make an animal more […]
By Jeremy Hsu, LiveScience Contributorposted: 29 March 2010 08:27 am ET Mass death among baby right whales has experts scrambling to figure out the puzzle behind the largest great whale die-off on record. Observers have found 308 dead whales in the waters around Peninsula Valdes along Argentina’s Patagonian Coast since 2005. Almost 90 percent of […]
