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 [...]
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.
The New York Times reports:
Environmental degradation is rife in Haiti — deforestation, erosion, pollution — and for the most part it is hard to miss. But for decades the country’s marine environment has suffered unseen. Its extensive coral reef system, an attraction to foreign scuba divers in the 1970s and ’80s, [...]
SEASHORE, Calif. (AP) — Two juvenile California sea lions paused for a moment at the edge of the sea, each raising their whiskered faces toward the silvery water before sliding in to freedom.
For the Marine Mammal Center crew standing behind the rehabilitated pinnipeds on Thursday, it was a [...]
From sea otters to blue whales, marine mammals are under stress from climate change, ocean acidification, hunting and other threats. Researchers have identified 20 important sites around the world where they say conservation efforts should concentrate.
Marine mammals are widely distributed in the oceans and some freshwater locations, but 11 of [...]
Meera Subramanian writes in Virginia Quarterly Review:
Today, India’s vultures are almost gone. Vibhu Prakash, principal scientist with BNHS, noticed the first nascent signs of a crisis nearly fifteen years ago. He had studied bird populations in Keoladeo National Park outside of Delhi in 1984, documenting 353 nesting pairs of vultures. When [...]
Mike Paradis’s family has staked its livelihood on bees for eight generations.
The tradition began in France and spread to Canada in the 1800s, when one of Mr. Paradis’s ancestors arrived in Quebec by ship, bees in tow. The family still has a beekeeping presence in the province, as well as in [...]
We at GoGreenNation have been challenged by Good magazine to participate in their 30-Day Waste Less Challenge! Let’s Go! –TR
The average American produces about 4.4 pounds of garbage per day, according to the Environmental Protection Agency, and in Mexico, households create 30 percent more trash than Americans. It all seems insignificant at first—a Starbucks cup [...]
As darkness blanketed the land, two cunning predators made their move. Their thirst for blood was intense and, when the opportunity presented itself, they sunk their canines into the soft underbelly of their prey. This eager hunting pair–Sen. Jon Tester (D-MT) and Rep. Mike Simpson (R-ID)–have doggedly pursued gray wolves all the way to the [...]
Tom Philpott wades into the EPA’s attempts to regulate poultry pollution in Chesapeake Bay. The industry won’t take this requirement to clean up its act without a fight:
“I’ve long argued that chemical-intensive commodity agriculture could never flourish without the right to pollute freely and stomp on surrounding communities and landscapes. Evidently, Big Ag’s greatest champions [...]
Roger Witherspoon examines what happens the regulatory agencies’ actions to protect fish in the vicinity of nuclear reactor cooling systems, such as these at Indian River in New York:
In an unprecedented move, the environmental agencies of New Jersey and New York have begun forcing scores of their largest water users to either retrofit their plants with [...]
In a long-running dispute between off-road vehicle drivers and state clean air requirements, a Nipomo Mesa resident has appealed a county decision that allows the state to install independent wind-measuring towers at and near the Oceano Dunes.
The appeal means the application will go to the Board of Supervisors and possibly to the California Coastal Commission for [...]
WASHINGTON — An environmental advocacy group says tourism and fishing deliver $204 billion annually to coastal economies along the Pacific, Atlantic and Florida Gulf shores – about four times the value of the estimated oil and gas that could be recovered every year from proposed offshore drilling nearby.
The study, prepared by Environment America, boils down [...]
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