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Kenya relocates zebras and wildebeest to feed its hungry lions
Posted by Water Conserve: Water Conservation RSS Newsfeed on February 13th, 2010
Times (UK): Shortly after dawn yesterday, as a large orange sun shone across a classic Rift Valley scene of grassland, acacia trees and misty blue hills, the silence was broken by the thumping blades of a helicopter. The pilot made low, buzzing runs at small herds of zebra, coaxing them towards a 50m-wide funnel-shaped trap with Tarpaulin walls hidden among the trees. Once the stamping, snorting animals were inside the funnel, rangers in camouflage fatigues shouted and used sticks to ...
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Rapid melting of record snowfall could harm waterways, aquatic life
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on February 13th, 2010
Washington Post: To nature, snow is potential. It is rainwater, waiting for a cue. So for now, scientists can guess at the environmental effects of historic back-to-back blizzards: Snowed-in cars don't pollute, snow-drooped trees could temporarily change the architecture of local forests. But the full impact of this two-act Snowmageddon won't be clear until the stuff melts. If those 30-plus inches of snow turn to water too fast, the water could pour unfiltered into the Potomac and Anacostia ...
Algae to solve the Pentagon’s jet fuel problem
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on February 13th, 2010
Guardian: The brains trust of the Pentagon says it is just months away from producing a jet fuel from algae for the same cost as its fossil-fuel equivalent. The claim, which comes from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) that helped to develop the internet and satellite navigation systems, has taken industry insiders by surprise. A cheap, low-carbon fuel would not only help the US military, the nation's single largest consumer of energy, to wean itself off its oil addiction, ...
Russia: Protesters, supporters rally as Baikal mill to reopen
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on February 13th, 2010
Reuters: More than 2,000 people protested on Saturday at the decision to reopen a paper mill that was mothballed in 2008 over concerns it was polluting Lake Baikal. An equal number, including some bussed in by the authorities, rallied alongside them in the Siberian city of Irkutsk to hail the government's decision last month to restart Baikalsk Pulp & Paper Mill, restoring 2,000 jobs. The loss-making plant, which is the main employer for the 17,000 inhabitants of nearby town of ...
Canada: Tar sands snubbed by ‘green’ retailers
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on February 13th, 2010
Toronto Star: Two trendy North American retail chains have washed their hands of Alberta's high-carbon oil sands, as environmentalists intensify a campaign to demonize the Canadian fuel. Organic food retailer Whole Foods Markets Ltd. and home furnishings chain Bed Bath and Beyond are believed to be the first major companies to stipulate to their fuel suppliers that they don't want gasoline refined from crude oil coming from the Alberta oil sands. Oil sands production is criticized by ...