brought to you by Sasha Paris
College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, Maine.
Climate change--locally identified as such--is taking a toll across Australia (Los Angeles Times)
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
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