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Sitting by the bedside of a disappearing world How wildlife biologists are becoming hospice workers	Grist	06 Jun 2007	Gristmill
This guest essay comes from Meera Subramanian, who lives in Brooklyn, N.Y., and writes about culture and the environment for The New York Times, Salon, Audubon, and other publications. A year ago, I was sitting in New York City's Bryant Park interviewing a wildlife biologist about vultures, three species of which are well on their way to extinction in South Asia. Munir Virani, who oversees the South Asian Vulture Crisis project for the Peregrine Fund, dropped a phrase that ...
Topics: biodiversity, endangered species, extinction (all these topics)

Ecuador to world: Help us, and we won't drill in the rainforest Ultimatum to the rest of the world	Kit Stolz	06 Jun 2007	Gristmill
In response to intense pressure from indigenous and environmental organizations opposed to drilling for oil in an Amazon rainforest, this May Ecuador asked the world for financial help, according to the Environmental News Service. The oil fields under Yasuni National Park are estimated to contain 900 million to 1 billion barrels of oil, about one-quarter of Ecuador's total reserves. In about a year, international oil companies will be allowed to bid for the right to dr ...
Topics: biodiversity, Ecuador, energy, international politics, oil, politics (all these topics)

Alien invaders: More to the story They may not all be bad.	Erik Hoffner	05 Jun 2007	Gristmill
Two recent news stories from the Chesapeake illustrate well the opposite poles in the debate on invasive species. The first details the appearance of the cuddly-sounding mitten crab in Chesapeake waters, an Asian species that has also hitchhiked in ships to California, Germany and Great Britain. Articles about it use terms like alien and exotic for the little fellas, often pitting them against the beleaguered native blue crabs. So the news that a foreign species ...
Topics: biodiversity, scientific research (all these topics)

With Protectors Like This ... Wildlife-trade regulators approve massive sale of ivory		04 Jun 2007	Daily Grist
With Protectors Like This ... Wildlife-trade regulators approve massive sale of ivory The world's only body that can limit trade in endangered species kicked off a 12-day meeting this weekend with one hell of a bang: The Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, or CITES, approved the sale of some 60 tons of ivory by three African nations to Japan. That's what the kids call ironical, ...
Topics: biodiversity, news, wildlife (all these topics)

Hitting Them Where It Hurts Rebels kill ranger in Congolese national park, threaten officials and gorillas		24 May 2007	Daily Grist
Hitting Them Where It Hurts Rebels kill ranger in Congolese national park, threaten officials and gorillas Rebels attacked three ranger posts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's Virunga National Park this weekend, killing one wildlife officer, wounding three more, and taking 13 hostages. While the human prisoners were released, the Mai Mai rebels still have hostages of a sort: they have made it clear that they'll start kill ...
Topics: biodiversity, Congo, news (all these topics)

Mongabay highlights for May '07 Good reading on Mongabay	biodiversivist	23 May 2007	Gristmill
There is so much good stuff over there I hardly know where to start. You might consider subscribing to the weekly email. Top of the list is an interview with Luke Hunter (the same biologist I pissed off with my pincushion post). Coincidentally, roughly a fifth of the interview dealt with that topic: ... does conservation of the species require radio-tagging? There are many, many cases where it does not. I often read proposals by graduate students who are wishing to ...
Topics: agriculture, biodiversity, biofuels, endangered species, energy, ethanol, wildlife (all these topics)

Citizen Cane On cane toads	Umbra Fisk	21 May 2007	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, I'm currently studying in Australia. I was recently in Queensland, where as you probably know, cane toads are a huge problem. There are over 200 million of the toxic toads, and this invasive species has been killing off native wildlife and just in general causing lots of problems. In fact, they have huge hunts where they gas thousands of the toads. Recently, when some friends and I saw the toads (hundreds of them come out at night, ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, Australia, biodiversity (all these topics)

Now There's Room for a Live Earth Concert Scientists find snowmelt, new species in Antarctica		17 May 2007	Daily Grist
Now There's Room for a Live Earth Concert Scientists find snowmelt, new species in Antarctica It's been a bad news-good news kind of week for Antarctica. Scientists from NASA and the University of Colorado revealed that a California-sized expanse of snow melted there during a warm spell in 2005, farther inland and at higher elevations than expected. The team was cautious about drawing climate-y conclusions, but sai ...
Topics: Antarctica, biodiversity, climate, news (all these topics)

So That's Why Their Little Hearts Beat So Fast New hummingbird species discovered, imperiled by cocaine trade		16 May 2007	Daily Grist
So That's Why Their Little Hearts Beat So Fast New hummingbird species discovered, imperiled by cocaine trade It's hard out here for a gorgeted puffleg. The hummingbird species with the fabulous name was just discovered in southwestern Colombia, where farmers slash and burn 1,235 acres of cloud-forest habitat every year to grow coca, the raw ingredient in cocaine. That's bad news for a spec ...
Topics: biodiversity, Colombia, deforestation, endangered species, news (all these topics)

Wikipedia rules Encyclopedia of Life off to a slow start	biodiversivist	13 May 2007	Gristmill
A couple of emails and an article in the latest issue of Science have roused me to post on the Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) website. The site is not functional yet but has a whiz-bang demo (completely fake) put together by a company called AvenueA\|Razorfish that is well worth checking out. However, that was the only thing that impressed me about the site. The article in Science just inflamed my skepticism:Hands up if you've heard this before: An ambitious new project p ...
Topics: biodiversity, websites, wildlife (all these topics)

Peak coal, peak bees Trends on an ever-shrinking planet	Erik Hoffner	08 May 2007	Gristmill
I was at Coop Power's excellent annual renewable energy summit in western Massachusetts recently. Richard Heinberg was there as a presenter. He discussed his well-regarded peak oil projections, and he then put that curve next to his peak uranium and peak coal projections. That visual drew gasps from the crowd -- especially the peak coal bit. Sure we've got lots of coal, but its quality ain't what it used to be, and won't go as far. Check his data. This got me thinki ...
Topics: biodiversity, coal, energy, oil, water conflicts (all these topics)

Fork it Over: Ways of bee-ing So far, small-scale, local-minded beekeepers have dodged hive collapse.	Tom Philpott	02 May 2007	Gristmill
This post marks the launch of Fork it Over, in which I (attempt to) answer questions inspired by my Victual Reality column. Got a question about food and the politics that surround it? Fork it over, by emailing it to victuals(at)grist(dot)org. Reader Brooklynolmec writes in to inquire: are organically managed bees faring any better these days than their industrially farmed peers? As most readers will know, the U.S. is currently in the grip of a widespread honeybe ...
Topics: food, agriculture, biodiversity, extinction (all these topics)

Leakage, spatial and temporal Biofuel rating system may be premature	biodiversivist	30 Apr 2007	Gristmill
I received an email yesterday from Richard Plevin over at Berkeley: I can only conclude from your post on Grist that you didn't actually read our report. The implications that we are either unaware of the environmental issues surrounding biofuels, or that we dismiss them, are incorrect. Your post does a disservice to those reading it by suggesting this. I encourage you to read our report. Likewise, I could conclude that he didn't read my post since he missed ...
Topics: Big Ag, biodiversity, biofuels, energy (all these topics)

Challenging Monsanto in Munich A guest blog from farmer's rights legend Hope Shand	Tom Philpott	28 Apr 2007	Gristmill
In the global fight to preserve what's left of agricultural biodiversity from the ravages of the multinational chemical/seed giants and their government lackeys, no civil-society organization stands taller than the ETC Group. Among other projects, ETC documents the growing dominance over the global seed market by a handful of firms: Monsanto, Syngenta, and Dupont. The following guest post, by ETC research director Hope Shand, details Monsanto's quest to enforce it ...
Topics: Big Ag, biodiversity, food, GMOs, industrial ag (all these topics)

Dead frog hopping Not all amphibians are toast	biodiversivist	25 Apr 2007	Gristmill
Not all amphibians are toast. From Mongabay: Poison arrow frogs appear to make special effort to avoid exposure to damaging ultraviolet-B radiation ... The researchers found that the two species of frogs appear to be exhibiting UV-B avoidance behavior, with vocalizing frogs found at sites where UV-B levels were more than six times lower than average. The ozone depletion problem is generally assumed to be under control for now, though I'm sure you can find scient ...
Topics: biodiversity, endangered species, wildlife (all these topics)

Killing wildlife to save it? Controversy in Kenya	Jason D Scorse	19 Apr 2007	Gristmill
A major controversy is brewing in Kenya right now about whether to remove the ban on wildlife hunting in order to raise money for conservation. Poaching has been devastating Kenyan wildlife; the logic is that since big-game hunters will pay lots of money to hunt big game, this will offer greater incentive to protect species and funnel money into underfunded conservation efforts. Hunting is no doubt a part of conservation efforts in many countries, but it is unsurpr ...
Topics: biodiversity, endangered species, Kenya (all these topics)

Can you hear me now? Is the information age killing off honeybees?	Jerome Woody	16 Apr 2007	Gristmill
For a while now, scientist have been scratching their heads over the cause of Colony Collapse Disorder, a phenomenon in which bees away from their hives never return after going out to collect pollen. But according to a recent report filed by The Independent, scientists are now considering the possibility that the cause of CCD may be electromagnetic interference from mobile phone networks. From the article: The theory is that radiation from mobile phones inter ...
Topics: biodiversity, endangered species, extinction, green living (all these topics)

America as Jack Benny Can you hear me now that I'm standing in the field with no yield?	JMG	16 Apr 2007	Gristmill
Don't know if this story will turn out to be a tempest in a teapot or kick like typhoon in a tender spot, but the implications if the latter are profound. For you youngsters, Jack Benny's stage persona was as a miser; he used to do a bit where he would get held up and the robber would say, 'Your money or your life!' Then there'd be this pause. 'Well?!' And Jack would reply 'I'm thinking ...' If America was held up tomorrow and told, 'Your cell phones or your crops,' I exp ...
Topics: biodiversity, endangered species, extinction, green living (all these topics)

Tastes like chicken T. Rex with feathers	biodiversivist	13 Apr 2007	Gristmill
Yahoo News puts it this way: Based on the small sample we've recovered, chickens may be the closest relatives (to T. rex),' says geneticist John Asara of Beth Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, co-leader of a team reporting the discovery of faint traces of chicken-like bone lining preserved inside a dinosaur drumstick. Science says it this way: To address this latter possibility, we generated aligned sequences obtained from chicken collagen 1t1 (the most closel ...
Topics: biodiversity, funnies, wildlife (all these topics)

E.O. Wilson talks at TED Big giant heads, unite!	Kate Sheppard	06 Apr 2007	Gristmill
E.O. Wilson accepting the 2007 TED Prize, online here.
Topics: biodiversity (all these topics)

Wheee!	David Roberts	27 Mar 2007	Gristmill
More alarmism from scientists: By the end of the century up to two fifths of the land surface of the Earth will have a hotter climate unlike anything that currently exists, according to a study that predicts the effects of global warming on local and regional climates. And in the worst case scenario, the climatic conditions on another 48% of the land surface will no longer exist on the planet at all. The changes - which will have a devastating affect on biodivers ...
Topics: biodiversity, climate, climate change impacts, rainforests (all these topics)

The latest on 'creation care' Did you know 'biodiversity' means gay marriage?	David Roberts	15 Mar 2007	Gristmill
Over at The New Republic, Brad Plumer has a nice rundown on the whole green evangelical "creation care" thing. Most of it is probably familiar to readers of this site, but some bits are worth pulling out. First of all, there's ... this: 'I've learned the hard way that, for instance, you can't use the term 'biodiversity' in certain evangelical communities, because they see that as code for same-sex marriage,' DeWitt says. [Jon Stewart double-take face] Wha ...
Topics: biodiversity, religion and spirituality (all these topics)

The Voyage of the Siegel Kassie Siegel of the Center for Biological Diversity answers readers' questions		19 Jan 2007	InterActivist
What happens legally when we declare a species threatened? What actions would the administration be promising to take if they concede that polar bears are, in fact, threatened? ��--�Adrienne LaBombard, West Lebanon, N.H. Kassie Siegel, Center for Biological Diversity. The protections of the Endangered Species Act work extremely well, making it our strongest and best law for the r ...
Topics: biodiversity, climate, InterActivist, interview, wildlife (all these topics)

Flock of Siegel Kassie Siegel of the Center for Biological Diversity answers Grist's questions		15 Jan 2007	InterActivist
Kassie Siegel. What's your job title? I work for the Center for Biological Diversity as director of the Climate, Air, and Energy Program. What does your organization do? The Center for Biological Diversity works to protect imperiled plants and animals, the wild places they depend on, and, by extension, our own well-being. We are probably best known for our legal work related to the Endanger ...
Topics: biodiversity, climate, InterActivist, interview, wildlife (all these topics)

What top environmental orgs have to say about animal welfare They don't ignore it	Jason D Scorse	05 Dec 2006	Gristmill
In order to further elucidate the role of animal welfare issues in environmentalism, let us examine mission statements from some of the top environmental organizations in the world. Let's start with the first line of the mission statement from the World Wildlife Fund: 'Protecting natural areas and wild populations of plants and animals, including endangered species.' Notice that WWF talks about protecting wild animals independently of whether the ...
Topics: animal welfare, biodiversity, endangered species, environmental movement, NRDC, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics)

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