David Sneed reports in the San Luis Obispo Tribune:
The owner of a Cayucos ranch has agreed to work with federal wildlife officials to protect California red-legged frogs.
Under a Safe Harbor Agreement with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Swallow Creek Ranch three miles north of Cayucos will manage a creek and pond on the property [...]
The first study conducted in a natural environment has shown that systemic pesticides damage bees’ ability to navigate
The Ecologist reports:
Common crop pesticides have been shown for the first time to seriously harm bees by damaging their renowned ability to navigate home.
The new research strongly links the pesticides to the serious decline in honey bee numbers [...]
It was only a matter of time…. Let’s hope this changes our relationship with animals…-tr*
Researchers at the Bonobo Hope Great Ape Trust Sanctuary in Des Moines, Iowa, are developing an app that acts as a human-ape translator, allowing both species to communicate with one another using a tablet.
All seven of the bonobos at the [...]
Two brothers in Nebraska boosted corn yields by 10 percent in non-irrigated conditions with moisture-conserving cover crops, and have launched a cover-crop seed business.
Within a year, knowledge gained from a three-day renewable energy training benefited more than 2,600 farmers across the South.
Former tobacco farmers in Kentucky are now cashing in on sweet potatoes—grossing up to [...]
Nonprofit Friends of the Elephant Seal and California State Parks now have a live web cam that lets you watch Northern Elephant Seals on the beach at Piedras Blancas from the comfort of your office.
Watch every day for changes. Follow my blog for information about what is happening and why the seals are there. In [...]
The world is entering an era where injuries as common as a child’s scratched knee could kill, where patients entering hospital gamble with their lives and where routine operations such as a hip replacement become too dangerous to carry out, the head of the World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned, in a story from the [...]
The Cinema Verde Film and Arts Festival once again presented some real film treasures on the big screen here in Gainesville. No doubt some people might think that movies about the environment must be painful to watch and depressing, and so a person might hesitate to see these movies. True, they ALL remind us or [...]
Twenty-five films, eight days and one cause. Directors, artists, scientists and filmgoers will come together starting this weekend for Gainesville’s third annual Cinema Verde Environmental Film and Arts Festival.
via Cinema Verde Environmental Film and Arts Festival returns | Gainesville.com.
Late last week, internal documents went public showing Canada is fretting over its sullied reputation for unfettered fossil fuel development, while resorting to poisoning wolves rather than fixing the problem. NWF released a paper today showing tar sands, oil and gas development in Canada is contributing to the decline in caribou herds. Rather than [...]
Is there any more we need to know to end this practice?
Kali Dingman of the Minnesota Daily reports:
A few years ago, hog farmers throughout the Midwest noticed foam building on top of their manure pits. Soon after, barns began exploding, killing thousands of hogs while farmers lost millions of dollars.
A team of University of Minnesota [...]
The Inuit are split on the wisdom of large-scale uranium mining in their territory, with some saying their communities desperately need the economic development, while others are concerned about the environmental fallout from the industry. With a population of just 30,000 mostly Inuit people living in a territory the size of Western Europe, Nunavut — [...]
The NY Times reports:
SAN FRANCISCO — On the Chinese calendar, this week ushers in the year of the dragon. But here, it feels a lot more like the year of the wolf.
Richard Cockle/The Oregonian, via Associated Press
John Stephenson, a biologist, measured the stride of the gray wolf known as OR7 in Crater Lake [...]
GENE JOHNSON reports for the Associated Press
SEATTLE January 26, 2012 (AP)
Conservationists and Native American tribes are suing over the Navy’s expanded use of sonar in training exercises off the Washington, Oregon and California coasts, saying the noise can harass and kill whales and other marine life.
The environmental law firm Earthjustice, the Natural Resources Defense Council [...]
The release is on the front page of the San Luis Obispo Tribune: I posted my own photos on my blog.
Rascal, a rare Guadalupe fur seal yearling, and Beige, a California sea lion juvenile, headed for the sea Wednesday at Leffingwell Landing in Cambria after being treated at The Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito.
Beige had [...]
The strict new federal standards limiting pollution from power plants are meant to safeguard human health. But they should have an important side benefit, according to a study being released on Tuesday: protecting a broad array of wildlife that has been harmed by mercury emissions. Songbirds and bats suffer some of the same types of [...]
The San Francisco Chronicle reports:
Federal regulators designated nearly 42,000 square miles of ocean along the West Coast as critical habitat for the Pacific leatherback turtle Friday, far less than originally proposed but still the largest protected area ever established in American waters.
The protected area is the first permanent safe haven in the waters of the [...]
Grist reports:
Anyone who’s been stung by a bee knows they can inflict an outsized pain for such tiny insects. It makes a strange kind of sense, then, that their demise would create an outsized problem for the food system by placing the more than 70 cropsthey pollinate — from almonds to apples to blueberries — [...]
Blogger Happy Homesteader writes:
If you are of a certain age, you will remember the 1980’s anti-drug advertisement where they fry the egg and opine “This is your brain on drugs”. Well folks this yolk is your body on drugs. It comes from a chicken that eats sub-standard food and a pharmaceutical soup of antibiotics and [...]
Juliet Eilperin reports in the Washington Post:
Scientists have identified the first-ever hybrid sharkoff the coast of Australia, a discovery that suggests some shark species may respond to changing ocean conditions by interbreeding with one another.A team of 10 Australian researchers identified multiple generations of sharks that arose from mating between the common blacktip shark (Carcharhinus [...]
To lift the lid on the lives of turkeys, naturalist Joe Hutto became a full-time “mother” to a brood of poults. What did he learn? He tells New Scientist:
You lived with wild turkeys in rural Florida for over a year. How did it all begin?
I had been experimenting with the imprinting phenomenon – in which [...]
Tom Philpott of Mother Jones looks at the numbers:
For a few months now, President Obama’s FDA has been showing zero appetite for standing up to the meat industry on factory-farm livestock use. In two key decisions (here and here), the agency declined to impose real restrictions on farm drug use, promoting a “voluntary” approach instead.
But [...]
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