Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Sea life, soot, "renewable" coal, Australia

brought to you by Sasha Paris  

College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, Maine.  

Human Ecology in Action.


Climate change--locally identified as such--is taking a toll across Australia (Los Angeles Times)

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-climate-change-australia9-2009apr09,0,65585.story?page=1 


Six environmental groups sued the federal government for failing to prevent bycatch of protected sea turtles in Gulf of Mexico longline fisheries. (Associated Press) 

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30246972/ 


A proposed bill in Indiana would label nuclear and "clean" coal electricity as "renewable," included in tax breaks and future renewable-energy standards. (Grist)

http://www.grist.org/article/2009-04-14-indiana-bill-would-define/ 


Report: Atlantic bluefin tuna could "die out" within three years.  The Mediterranean fishing season for them opened on Wednesday.  [What doom upon the seas we wish, to sate our yearnings for raw fish]  (The Times of London). 

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article6094307.ece 


Bangor News

Two animal-welfare groups sued the state of Maine for not preventing all trapping of endangered Canada lynx. (They've been threatening to do that since at least last June)

http://www.bangordailynews.com/detail/103716.html 


Federal and state wildlife managers are in dispute over recreational fishing for endangered Atlantic salmon in part of the Penobscot River. 

http://www.bangordailynews.com/detail/103966.html 


New York Times

Soot, especially in "third world stoves," is newly targeted as an atmospheric heat-trapper.  Cue the miffed comments. 

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/16/science/earth/16degrees.html?ref=science 


On efforts to "replant" a dying coral reef off of Japan

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/15/world/asia/15coral.html?_r=1&ref=science 


No comments: