ECO-NEWS, WEEK EIGHT
A 10-week leak at a Timor Sea oil rig was finally plugged. (BBC)
The IUCN's Red List of globally- endangered species has been updated, and it isn't pretty. (Independent, UK)
Invasive giant tiger shrimp are spreading in the Gulf of Mexico, and could carry diseases to native species. (Houma Courier/WW LTV)
An incredible multi-faith convention on religion and environmentalism. Eco-topia where the Berlin Wall was. Large-scale land conservation in Maine, and more. (Living on Earth*)
Grist
After local and Sierra Club campaigning, plans for a major coal-fired power plant were halted in South Dakota.
The fashion 'conglomerate' Gucci Group promised to stop using paper made from Indonesian rainforest trees.
NPR (or CPR, as Lucky Lunt calls it)
Fisheries guru Dan Pauly enlightened piscivorous** Terry Gross on "the perils of overfishing" [I enjoyed these]
http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=120013107
http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=120049590
*This page has links to all of this week's programs. My hands aren't up for copying them. I'll probably send this link weekly, noting current articles.
**Piscivorous: adj. "subsisting on the consumption of fish." TG probably doesn't actually subsist on fish, but I love to use that word.
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