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Climate change could drive crocs out of the water
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on July 9th, 2010
New Scientist: CROCODILES could find it harder to locate food and take refuge from predators as global warming bites. So says Hamish Campbell of the University of Queensland in St Lucia, Australia. His team recorded the dives made by 10 juvenile freshwater crocodiles in Lakefield National Park, Queensland, over 15 days in both summer and winter. Campbell's group tagged the crocs - which dive periodically to catch food, rest and avoid predators - with two recorders that clocked time ...
APA encouraged forest views being listened to by donors
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on July 9th, 2010
Stabroek News: -still sees gaps in plan for World Bank project President of the Amerindian Peoples Association (APA), Tony James says he is encouraged that countries and institutions involved in forest protection efforts seem to be listening to the concerns of indigenous peoples here. James, other APA members, representatives from Peruvian non-governmental organisations and a member of the Coordinating Body for Indigenous Organisations of the Amazon Basin, spoke about their concerns on forest ...
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Comments Off on APA encouraged forest views being listened to by donorsSea turtle egg evacuations begin along oiled Gulf
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on July 9th, 2010
Associated Press: Biologist Lorna Patrick dug gingerly into the beach Friday, gently brushing away sand to reveal dozens of leathery, golfball-sized loggerhead sea turtle eggs. Patrick, of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, carefully plucked the eggs from the foot-deep hole and placed them one-by-one in a cooler layered with moist sand from the nest, the first step in a sweeping and unprecedented turtle egg evacuation to save thousands of threatened hatchlings from certain death in the oiled Gulf of ...
Farmed Fish, Food Fish; Wild Fish, Few Fish
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on July 9th, 2010
National Public Radio: On a rainy morning in New York City's Jamaica Bay, fishing boat captain Vinnie Calabro reflects on his game. "Striped bass are a hearty, vibrant fish that can endure a lot of crap," he says. "They're pretty much a mirror of our society." You figure if they can make it here -- right next to New York's Kennedy International Airport -- they can probably make it anywhere. But writer Paul Greenberg, who has joined Calabro on this pre-drawn fishing trip, isn't so sure. He's ...
World on track for warmest year on record, U.S. scientist says
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on July 8th, 2010
Bloomberg: The current year may become the warmest on record, according to a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration scientist. Temperature trends across the U.S. and around the world have been among the warmest on record, said David Easterling, a climatologist with NOAA's National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, North Carolina. "If the warming around the world continues the way it has so far this year, we are likely to have 2010 be the warmest on record,' Easterling said ...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on World on track for warmest year on record, U.S. scientist saysAn oil pipeline from Canada? Some say ‘no way.’
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on July 8th, 2010
National Public Radio: Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA), chairman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, says the U.S. is in danger of becoming too dependent on foreign oil. But he doesn't mean from the Middle East or Venezuela -- he's referring to Canada. TransCanada Corp. is planning a 1,600-mile pipeline from Alberta to American oil refineries on the Gulf of Mexico. Waxman wants to stop the pipeline -- and he's not alone. It's not that opponents don't trust Canada. They just don't like the ...
Mississippi coast faces environmental crisis
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on July 8th, 2010
Reuters: Coastal Mississippi is facing its biggest environmental crisis since Hurricane Katrina as oil from a leaking BP well in the Gulf of Mexico fouls its beaches and creeps onto inshore wetlands. People watched in horror on Thursday as high tides washed oil onto beaches in the southeast of the state and in some cases the chunks of hardened oil floating offshore were as big as a school bus, said Long Beach Mayor Billy Skellie. The previous day, oily water breached a sea wall and ...
Controversial changes to Brazilian forest law passes first barrier
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on July 8th, 2010
Mongabay: An amendment to undermine protections in Brazil's 1965 forestry code has passed it first legislative barrier, reports the World Wide Fund for Nature-Brasil (WWF). Yesterday the amendment passed a special vote in the Congress's Special Committee on Forest Law Changes. Pushed by a bloc of Brazilian legislatures known as the 'ruralistas', due to their ties to big agricultural, the amendment would scale down the forestry code's protection of Brazil's great forest ecosystems, including the ...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Controversial changes to Brazilian forest law passes first barrierAn Oil Pipeline From Canada? Some Say ‘No Way’
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on July 8th, 2010
National Public Radio: Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA), chairman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, says the U.S. is in danger of becoming too dependent on foreign oil. But he doesn't mean from the Middle East or Venezuela. He's referring to Canada. TransCanada Corp. is planning a 1,600-mile pipeline from Alberta to American oil refineries on the Gulf of Mexico. Waxman wants to stop the pipeline -- and he's not alone. It's not that opponents don't trust Canada. They just don't like the ...
The Ash Comes Down Like a Blessing to Some
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on July 8th, 2010
Inter Press Service: "It's unbelievable, the eruption has had a very good effect on the grass," says farmer Finnur Tryggvason in Raudafell, just beneath the Eyjafjallajokull glacier that erupted in April and continued till late May. The ash is thought to keep the soil warm, hence enhancing growth. "It's like putting fertilizer with potassium and phosphorous on the ground," he says. But it was not an entirely unmixed blessing. "The species composition has changed slightly, and some species have ...