Fish products, cows, imperiled areas

brought to you by Sasha Paris  

College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, Maine.  

Human Ecology in Action.

The world's largest methane-burning-and-cow-waste-recycling facility opened in China (Worldwatch Institute)
http://www.enn.com/pollution/article/30461

Russia has banned commercial harvesting or sale of sturgeon caviar...but wants an export quota. Weird. (World Wildlfe Fund)
http://www.enn.com/wildlife/article/30519

L'Oreal promised to phase out use of shark-liver oil in its cosmetics (The Guardian)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/jan/30/conservation.wildlife

A big tidal wetland restoration project has been underway in Southern California (San Diego Union-Tribune)
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/northcounty/20080124-9999-1mi24lagoon.html

A neat salmon-tracking project in the making (the Daily Astorian)
http://www.dailyastorian.info/main.asp?SectionID=2&SubSectionID=398&ArticleID=48636&TM=2038.347

New York Times
On preservation and climate change. Most depressing.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/29/science/earth/29habi.html?_r=1&ref=science&oref=slogin

A national tax on plastic grocery bags is taking significant effect in Ireland, if not in some other places.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/02/world/europe/02bags.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&ref=science