The country with the world’s largest rain forests is preparing to enact regulations that opponents say could speed up deforestation and increase greenhouse gas emissions.
Amazonian rain forest is burned to create pasture land for ranching in Brazil. For two years, Brazil has been debating how to update a 1965 law that was designed to control [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The St. Johns River Water Management District just finished its latest scientific assessment of Silver Springs and the Silver River — a “minimum flows and levels” study aimed at determining just how low the springs/river level could go before experiencing significant environmental harm. It is an important and useful measure of the springs’ and river’s [...]
The tiny NSW town of Bulga has won a three-year battle against mining giant Rio Tinto when a court overturned a state government-endorsed decision to allow it to dig an open-cut coalmine next to the town.
A Rio Tinto subsidiary, Coal & Allied, had been granted approval to mine bushland next to the town which had [...]
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 [...]
Even though this is in Bangladesh, anyone can participate via the Internet.
What are the latest approaches for mainstreaming community-based adaptation into international, national and local planning and processes? IIED’s 7th Annual Community Based Adaptation Conference (CBA7) aims to provide the latest thinking from climate scientists, policy makers and practitioners to answer this question, and to [...]
Green Drinks Wednesday, March 6: There are so many cool things going on in our little town of Gainesville, sometimes it’s hard to decide what to do… Green Drinks is always the first Wednesday of the month, and in March, there’s something we think you won’t want to miss: Gubernatorial candidate Nan Rich is coming [...]
The Christian Science Monitor reports:
Uncharacteristic feeding behavior from dolphins and whales is grabbing the attention of scientists – and the public – and so far is prompting more questions than answers about what’s going on in the ocean depths.
Blue whales, which usually hang out off Costa Rica this time of year, unexpectedly showed up in [...]
By WILLIAM J. BROAD reports in the NY Times
Published: December 10, 2012
When a hurricane forced the Nautilus to dive in Jules Verne’s “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea,” Captain Nemo took the submarine down to a depth of 25 fathoms, or 150 feet. There, to the amazement of the novel’s protagonist, Prof. Pierre Aronnax, no [...]
Robert Krulwich reports:
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We’ll start in a cornfield — we’ll call it an Iowa cornfield in late summer — on a beautiful day. The corn is high. The air is shimmering. There’s just one thing missing — and it’s a big thing…
…a very big thing, but I won’t tell you what, not yet.
Instead, let’s take [...]
Marcin Jakubowski
In 2008, I dropped my theoretical physicist’s chalkboard and began developing the Global Village Construction Set (GVCS) — an open source, collaborative project. The GVCS is a modular, DIY, low-cost, high-performance platform that allows for the easy fabrication of the 50 different industrial machines that it takes to build a small, sustainable civilization with [...]
Qatar’s deputy Prime minister and 18th Conference of the Parties (COP18) president Abdullah bin Hamad Al-Attiyah delivers a speech during the opening ceremony of the 18th United Nations Convention on Climate Change in Doha on November 26, 2012. AFP PHOTO / AL-WATAN DOHA / KARIM JAAFAR
“We owe it to our people, the global citizenry. We [...]
This awakening about the math (and physics) of climate change has coincided with climate activist Bill McKibben’s “Do the Math” tour, an awareness-raising series of events criss-crossing the country this month. The tour was inspired by McKibben’s incredible essay in Rolling Stone magazine, “Global Warming’s Terrifying New Math.”
In this article, McKibben lays out three fundamental [...]
By Sue Arnold writes on Neptune 911
CEO, California Gray Whale Coalition
Photos by
Charmaine Coimbra
One of the most important outcomes of the PG&E HESS – whichever way it goes – is the raising of awareness on the issue of underwater noise and acoustic trauma. Considering the precedent which would be set by allowing 260dB to be blasted [...]
Emma Bryce writes about seismic testing on the East Coast in the NY Times:
Bureau of Ocean Energy ManagementAreas that would be opened to seismic testing for oil and gas deposits off the Atlantic coast.
As a federal decision draws near, environmental and commercial fishing groups are marshaling their forces to protest a plan by the Obama [...]
THE CLEAN WATER ACT
Because Everybody Lives Downstream
In June 1969, Cleveland’s Cuyahoga River caught fire. A few weeks later, a Time magazine report described the river as “Chocolate-brown, oily, bubbling with subsurface gases, it oozes rather than flows.” This was a dramatic illustration of the state of the nation’s waterways. At that time, industrial waste and [...]
Statement from Jean-Michel Cousteau, President of Ocean Futures Society on the Diablo Canyon Seismic Testing: Too Much Risk
October 29, 2012
Gray whales are whales that have changed little over the past 600,000 years yet one of the first of the great whales to face extinction. It is a marine mammal with the longest single migration [...]
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