On this farm every Wednesday youngsters, with an adult, can meet and greet farm animals by helping staff with afternoon feeding. With a sheep here—and a cow there— learning about heritage breed farm animals is fun! This free program takes place Wednesdays at 3:00 pm on the Living History Farm. The Living History Farm is [...]
The fungus suspected of killing off many of the world’s frogs is from an ancient strain that has just recently escaped its niche thanks to globalisation, suggests new research.
The new genetic analysis of chytrid fungus is published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Professor Hamish McCallum, a chytrid expert from Griffith University says [...]
According to a new survey of America’s beekeepers, almost a third of the country’s honeybee colonies did not make it through the winter.
Over the past six years, on average, 30 percent of all the honeybee colonies in the U.S. died off over the winter. The worst year was five years ago. Last year was the best: Just [...]
Something’s wrong with the Indian River Lagoon.
Manatees, dolphins and pelicans are dying at record rates. Blue crabs seem weak. Bloom after bloom of algae clouds the lagoon’s seagrass.
Scientists can’t say with any certainty what’s wrong, though all agree something has gone awry and may be irreversible.
Some point to global warming. Others blame pollution. Even manatees [...]
Late last week, a draft government rule that will remove Endangered Species Act protections for wolves across most of the lower 48 states was leaked to the press.
If it’s enacted, this rule will put a tragic end to one of the most important wildlife recovery stories in America’s history.
Wolves today wander just 5 percent of their [...]
The world’s most widely used insecticide is devastating dragonflies, snails and other water-based species, a groundbreaking Dutch study has revealed.
On Monday, the insecticide and two others were banned for two years from use on some crops across the European Union, due to the risk posed to bees and other pollinators, on which many food crops rely.
However, much [...]
More than 350 oyster farmers now cultivate bottom leases in the shallow waters along the Northeastern seaboard, according to the Northeast Regional Aquaculture Center, up from handfuls 25 years ago. The rewards are great. With an insatiable half-shell market, gross profits are high and demand constant. But the challenges may be greater.
The Northeast’s boutique oyster [...]
Industrialized animal agribusiness is facing a crisis, and its leaders, having failed to accept that factory farming practices are actually at the root of the problem, are frantically looking in every direction for quick fixes. While they procrastinate, they are only digging a deeper hole for themselves.
Stunned by repeated whistleblowing exposés revealing inhumane treatment of [...]
A team of entomologists from the University of Illinois has found a possible link between the practice of feeding commercial honeybees high-fructose corn syrup and the collapse of honeybee colonies around the world. The team outlines their research and findings in a paper they’ve had published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Since approximately [...]
From NPR:
Three popular pesticides will soon be illegal in the European Union, where officials hope the change helps restore populations of honey bees, vital to crop production, to healthy levels. The new ban will be enacted in December.
“I pledge to do my utmost to ensure that our bees, which are so vital to our ecosystem [...]
Greetings, Green Gainesville!
We’re pleased to announce that our next
Green Drinks meeting will be held at the new
The Brew Spot Café
1000 NE 16th Ave.
May 1, 6 – 8 p.m.
When was the last time you did a chemistry experiment? Jeff Keaffaber, co-owner of The Brew Spot Café, has a treat for you and anyone who wants [...]
The case was dropped, as reported in the Salt Lake Tribune:
One day after the case made headlines, Draper prosecutors have dismissed a misdemeanor against an animal-welfare activist who filmed a Utah slaughterhouse.
Prosecutors on Tuesday dropped the case against Amy Meyer, who had faced a class B misdemeanor for agricultural-operation interference. Prosecutors filed the charge in [...]
Susie Cagle writes for Grist:
There’s a Paul McCartney quote popular with veg-heads: “If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.” It may not be quite as simple as all that, but he’s definitely got a point.
For a little over 10 years, groups such as Mercy for Animals, the Humane Society of the United [...]
Deep in the jungle where the borders of Vietnam meet those of Laos and Cambodia is a region known as “the lost world.” Large mammals never seen before by Western science have popped up frequently in these mountains in the last decade, including a half-goat/half-ox, a deer that barks, and a close relative of the [...]
By Louis Sahagun reports for the Los Angeles TimesApril 27, 2013, 5:05 p.m.
Many of the nation’s 440 military bases were established in what were once sparsely populated hinterlands where soldiers trained without complaints from neighbors about the roar of warplanes and the sound of gunfire and explosions.
Now, with urban sprawl pushing up against perimeter fences, [...]
When Jose Navarro landed a job as a federal poultry inspector in 2006, he moved his wife and newborn son to a rural town in Upstate New York near the processing plant, believing it was a steppingstone to a better life.
Five years later, Navarro was dead. The 37-year-old’s lungs had bled out.
His death triggered a [...]
Smallmouth bass that draw hundreds of millions of dollars to the Chesapeake Bay region for sport fishing are sick, and many look too awful to ever mount as a trophy.
A report released Thursday by the Chesapeake Bay Foundation says the fish, particularly those in the lower Susquehanna River, have been struck by a perfect storm of pollution, [...]
One of the most important features of science is that major discoveries regularly raise important ethical questions. This is especially true with research about cetaceans, because the discoveries of marine mammal scientists over the last 50 years have made it clear that whales and dolphins share traits once believed to be unique to humans: self-awareness, abstract thought, [...]
This documentary, Presented by Sustainable Sante Fe, details the spread of an invasive species of Hawaiian sugar-cane toads through Australia in a botched effort to introduce them as counter pests to the grey back beetle that was wreaking havoc on the country’s sugar cane fields. The true story is narrated with great humor and does [...]
Come join Craig Faulhaber, the Florida Scrub-Jay Conservation Coordinator for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, for a presentation on the biology and conservation of the Florida Scrub-jay, the only bird species unique to Florida. Come hear about the scrub-jay’s fascinating social system, its unique scrub habitat, and the challenges and opportunities for conserving [...]
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