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 [...]
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 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 — [...]
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 [...]
Bruce Ritchie reports:
A bill filed by a Senate budget subcommittee chairman would prohibit the Public Service Commission from allowing private utilities to charge customers higher rates for using large amounts of water.
SB 1244 appears aimed at Aqua Utilities Florida, the largest private water utility in Florida. But the bill is raising broader concerns among some [...]
Catherine Ryan Hyde summarizes the struggle Cambria has had with its own governing body, the Community Services District, to protect the local environment. The area is legally protected by state and federal law, but the CSD board of directors has pursued invading it to build a desalination plant. The full text of her summary includes [...]
Bruce Ritchie
Floridaenvironments.com
Author Cynthia Barnett of Gainesville says she traces the start of her focus on water issues to a St. Petersburg Timespage 1A story written in 2003 that she says made her “insane.”
Barnett is author of “Blue Revolution: Unmaking America’s Water Crisis.” It’s an important new book that challenges Americans to transform their views of [...]
(12-26) 02:44 PST South Lake Tahoe, Calif. (AP) –
Over the objections of the U.S. Forest Service, wildlife officials in California are taking steps at the state level to protect a rare woodpecker partly because the federal agency won’t stop logging the bird’s ever-shrinking habitat in burned stands of national forests in the Sierra Nevada.
The California [...]
NPR tells listeners about these scientists’ appeal to the public for help:
Marine biologists are turning to citizen scientists, sitting at home in front of their computers, to help unlock the secrets of whale songs.
In Pixar’s aquatic adventure Finding Nemo, Dory, voiced by Ellen DeGeneres, attempts to communicate with a whale to find the missing title [...]
JOSEPHINE MARCOTTY reports for the Minneapolis Star Tribune
Grain prices are tempting farmers to plow up protected land, even as conservation subsidies shrink.
ZUMBROTA, MIN. — The Indian grass that Larry Thomforde planted 15 years ago is up to his chin now — tall gold spikes that sway in the sun as his dog, Gwynie, crashes [...]
Karsten, a rescued loggerhead sea turtle, was able to be set free in Marathon, Florida Keys, last week. This video explains about the Turtle Hospital’s history and shows Karsten swimming away at about 7:48. You can see how animated he got as soon as he could smell the water.
We visited the Turtle Hospital and participated [...]
Euronews and lots of others report on the New Zealand container ship on the rocks:
Salvage crews have returned to the stricken container ship Rena, grounded off the coast of New Zealand since October 5.
Rough weather had forced the team to halt efforts to pump hundreds of tonnes of fuel from the ship. So far [...]
‘Shark Publicist’ William Winram tags great whites for scientists and captures images of them that confound us. He wants to show that humans’ natural fear of the so-called man-eater has been blown way out of proportion. This photo of him and a tiger shark is by Fred Buyle.
Joe Mozingo of the Los Angeles Times profiles [...]
California Report finds Tahoe getting green instead of blue:
“Keep Tahoe Blue” has been the slogan of environmental groups working to protect Lake Tahoe’s legendary clear waters. Over the last decade, more than $1 billion has been poured into curbing runoff and erosion at the lake. But new [...]
Starting October 5, a series of dives by a remotely operated vehicle may definitively determine the ecological threat posed by the S.S. Montebello, a World War II-era oil tanker that lies seven miles offshore from Cambria.
The Coast Guard and state Department of Fish and Game have hired Seattle-based Global Diving and [...]
A small population in the Santa Monica Mountains near Los Angeles is hemmed in by freeways and faces extinction,
As if their situation isn’t dire enough, someone killed and mutilated — the story doesn’t specify how — one of them.
Police chased two lions off a suburban lawn in Sierra Madre, north of Los Angeles in the [...]
David Sneed reports from San Luis Obispo:
In what is being described as an unusual event, state Fish and Game officials rescued a black bear cub Friday that had been found orphaned at the top of the Cuesta Grade.
The cub will be taken to a specialized care facility and will be released back [...]
When it comes to adding up the ecological benefits to Australia of its huge marine domain, the first serious stab at a value is $25 billion.
While marine industries such as fishing, oil and gas exploration and marine tourism have long been accounted for, ecosystems themselves have been ignored, [...]
Scientists have made the surprise discovery that a population of critically endangered hawksbill turtles, thought to have been wiped out in the eastern Pacific from Mexico to Peru, has survived by occupying a novel habitat — mangrove estuaries — rather than coral reefs where they have been slaughtered for their exquisite shells.
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