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Something Fishy: Devastating die-off in Puget Sound
Low-oxygen event troubling in Hood Canal |
Sarah van Schagen |
16 Nov 2006 |
Gristmill |
| Arrr mateys, there's nothin' like a noggin o' rum cuppa joe to sober wake ye up on a Thursday morn. And there's nothin' like a depressing video of a fish die-off to harsh ye mellow. The footage of Hood Canal comes from the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife and includes a brief explanation of the problem: Hood Canal is an underwater fjord where normal oxygen exchange in the water takes place slowly because of the depth of the water and the canal's shape. ... |
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| Topics: wildlife (all these topics) |
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A win-win-win-win scenario
Carbon offsets that go to developing world forests rule |
biodiversivist |
02 Nov 2006 |
Gristmill |
| Here's an uplifting article by Rhett Butler over at Mongabay. It enables my personal eco-fantasy. It's titled, Avoided deforestation could help fight third world poverty under global warming pact. $43 billion could flow into developing countries: When trees are cut greenhouse gases are released into the atmosphere -- roughly 20 percent of annual emissions of such heat-trapping gases result from deforestation and forest degradation. Avoided deforestation is the concep ... |
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| Topics: air pollution, biodiversity, deforestation, Kyoto Protocol, politics, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Spite of the Living Dead
Interior Department official disparages endangered-species recommendations |
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31 Oct 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Spite of the Living Dead Interior Department official disparages endangered-species recommendations If Julie MacDonald had a farm (e-i-e-i-o), all the animals would die. At least six times since 2004, MacDonald -- deputy assistant secretary of the Interior Department -- has rejected staff recommendations to protect susceptible flora and fauna under the Endangered Species Act, documents show. The Interior Department's ... |
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| Topics: Department of Interior, news, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Survival of the Ritziest
Threatened frogs get cushy new habitat at a Panamanian hotel |
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26 Oct 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Survival of the Ritziest Threatened frogs get cushy new habitat at a Panamanian hotel Hundreds of frogs and toads can be found in an unusual habitat in Panama -- Rooms 28 and 29 of the Hotel Campestre in the town of El Valle de Anton. An international crew of biologists, environmentalists, and zoo employees relocated the critters to save them from the deadly chytrid fungus, which has been working its way through Central America for ... |
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| Topics: news, Panama, wildlife (all these topics) |
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The Roach Approach
On battling cockroaches |
Umbra Fisk |
23 Oct 2006 |
Ask Umbra |
| Dear Umbra, Help! I'm having a mysterious cockroach problem. I found four in my apartment in two weeks, and not in the expected places: one in a stack of papers (I know, I should pay my bills faster), one near my vitamin bottles, one nowhere near water in my bathroom, and, the worst one, crawling along the arm of my couch (while I was sitting on the couch). I don't like to spray them with chemicals, but these things freak me ou ... |
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| Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, green living, wildlife (all these topics) |
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The Bees' Needs
Scientists worry about declining numbers of honeybees and other pollinators |
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19 Oct 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| The Bees' Needs Scientists worry about declining numbers of honeybees and other pollinators Researchers are warning of a significant population decline in species that together pollinate three-quarters of all flowering North American plants, including more than 90 commercial crops. A study released yesterday by the National Research Council indicates a "demonstrably downward" trend in populations of birds, bees, bats, and other pol ... |
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| Topics: news, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Axis of Upheaval
Wobbly earth may contribute to extinction of mammals, study finds |
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12 Oct 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Axis of Upheaval Wobbly earth may contribute to extinction of mammals, study finds Natural shifts in the earth's orbit and axis correspond to the periodic emergence and extinction of rodents and likely other mammals as well, says a study published today in Nature. Researchers studying 22 million years of rodent fossil records in central Spain found that certain species experienced a slow, fading extinction roughly every million years and eve ... |
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| Topics: news, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Sure It's Not the Politics?
Wildlife waste blamed for pollution in D.C.-area waterways |
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29 Sep 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Sure It's Not the Politics? Wildlife waste blamed for pollution in D.C.-area waterways Tired of being left out, nature has decided to join in the fun and pollute itself. A significant amount of harmful bacteria in Virginia and Maryland waterways has been pinned on, well, wildlife poop. The Potomac and Anacostia rivers and an additional two dozen or so streams have been declared federally &quo ... |
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| Topics: news, Potomac River, Washington DC, water pollution, wildlife (all these topics) |
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The Big Glad Wolf
Wolf population thriving in Rocky Mountain states |
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29 Sep 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| The Big Glad Wolf Wolf population thriving in Rocky Mountain states The wolf population in the Northern Rocky Mountains has grown by more than 20 percent since last winter. Officials estimate that 158 wolf packs, totaling at least 1,229 members, are living it up in Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming. The midyear estimate is the highest population estimate since wolves were reintroduced to the region in 1995 and 1996; how ... |
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| Topics: Idaho, Montana, news, wildlife, Wyoming (all these topics) |
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Something Fishy: Smack is wack
Overfishing, global warming causing increases in jellyfish populations |
Sarah van Schagen |
27 Sep 2006 |
Gristmill |
| Ahoy, me hearties! Me hopes ye've now recovered from Talk Like a Pirate Day. Turned out to be a jolly good time here at Grist HQ aboard me ship -- a good lot of pirate jokes and a few noggins o' rum and me timbers were shivered, if ye know what I mean. Well, this week mateys, me post was inspired by the maritime adventures of a coworker shipmate during his travels in Cabo. Apparently, after a dip in the refreshing waters, his partner started to develop a large wel ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change impacts, oceans, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Tender Loving Caribou
Judge sides with caribou, bans snowmobiles from some Idaho national forests |
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27 Sep 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Tender Loving Caribou Judge sides with caribou, bans snowmobiles from some Idaho national forests Mountain caribou celebrated last week as a judge banned snowmobiles from a nearly 470-square-mile caribou recovery zone in the Idaho Panhandle National Forests. The ban will hold unless the U.S. Forest Service can develop a winter recreation strategy that would enable noisy, polluting vehicles and ... |
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| Topics: Idaho, national forests, news, outdoor recreation, wildlife (all these topics) |
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A ferretible accomplishment
Almost extinct in the '70s, black-footed ferrets celebrate 25 years since their rediscovery |
Kate Sheppard |
26 Sep 2006 |
Gristmill |
| We get all sorts of interesting press releases here. Some informative, some less-informative, others amusing and random. According to this one, today marks the 25th anniversary of the rediscovery of the black-footed ferret. It came with a complete history of the ferret, as well as charts, graphs, and contact information for prominent ferret experts. The black-footed ferret, which is the only species of ferret native to the United States, was believed to be extinct ba ... |
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| Topics: endangered species, wildlife (all these topics) |
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An Accident Waiting to Aspen
Aspens are dying mysteriously in the Western U.S. |
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26 Sep 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| An Accident Waiting to Aspen Aspens are dying mysteriously in the Western U.S. Aspens, the most widely distributed trees in North America, are rapidly dying in some Western states -- and no one knows why. The culprit may be insects, or climatic stress, or overgrazing. Or all of those. Or none of them. It may be a lack of recent avalanches and fires, because aspens thrive in the aftermath of disaster. Or the aspen die-off may have been ... |
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| Topics: news, West, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Bird Mentality
New sightings of ivory-billed woodpecker in Florida |
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26 Sep 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Bird Mentality New sightings of ivory-billed woodpecker in Florida Bird researchers have spotted ivory-billed woodpeckers 14 times in the past 18 months in a remote area of the Florida panhandle -- on some occasions, two at the same time -- according to a report in the Canadian online journal Avian Conservation and Ecology. The team of scientists also made some 300 sound recordings of the woodpeckers, fou ... |
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| Topics: Florida, logging, news, North Carolina, wildlife (all these topics) |
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When Teshekpuk Comes to Shove
Sensitive Alaska wetlands spared from drilling plan -- for now |
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25 Sep 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| When Teshekpuk Comes to Shove Sensitive Alaska wetlands spared from drilling plan -- for now In good news for conservationists, the Department of Interior has announced willingness to exclude the sensitive Teshekpuk Lake wetlands from a region of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska that it wants to open to oil and natural-gas drilling. The move has little to ... |
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| Topics: Alaska, Department of Interior, energy, news, oil, oil and gas drilling, wetlands, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Where the Wild Things Are Painted
Walton Ford brings testosterone to nature painting |
Lou Bendrick |
18 Sep 2006 |
Arts and Minds |
| Walton Ford. Photo: Jason Houston They, whoever the hell they are, say that great paintings work on many levels, and on the first, visceral level, a Walton Ford painting is gorgeous. Because his paintings are done on a large scale, it's an in-your-face gorgeousness: You can't miss the luster on a bison's hoof, the plump pinkness of a zebra's tongue, the detailed fur of a lion. I was a ... |
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| Topics: green living, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Chagrin and Bear It
Melting sea ice makes polar bears starve, drown |
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18 Sep 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Chagrin and Bear It Melting sea ice makes polar bears starve, drown Travel agents hawking trips to the Arctic have been boasting lately of an increased likelihood that tourists will see polar bears -- because starving bears are encroaching on human settlements to scavenge for food. Polar bears have traditionally used ice floes to hunt seals, their favored prey -- but Arctic ice, in case you hadn't heard, is m ... |
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| Topics: Arctic, climate, news, polar bears, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Mouse pad
State mulls fate of meadow mouse as development vultures lurk in the background |
Kate Sheppard |
14 Sep 2006 |
Gristmill |
| I'm not all that concerned about the protection of this particular mouse, nor do I want to enter into the ongoing debate about animal rights, but this piece of news from Colorado concerns me for its wider implications. A committee in the state House will meet next week to determine whether the Preble's meadow jumping mouse should continue to be protected by the Endangered Species Act. At hand is the question of whether the species is distinct enough to warrant specia ... |
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| Topics: Colorado, endangered species, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Unto the Lease of These
Judge halts oil lease sale to protect Alaskan wetlands |
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08 Sep 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Unto the Lease of These Judge halts oil lease sale to protect Alaskan wetlands Ruling that the Bush administration failed to properly consider the impact of oil development on sensitive wetlands, a U.S. district judge has temporarily blocked an upcoming Alaska oil-lease sale of about 1.7 million acres. The Bushies had heard the call of up to 2 billion barrels of oil beneath the permaf ... |
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| Topics: Alaska, energy, news, oil, oil and gas drilling, wetlands, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Connect the Plots
Land corridors encourage biodiversity, says research in Science |
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05 Sep 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Connect the Plots Land corridors encourage biodiversity, says research in Science Narrow strips of land that connect isolated natural areas encourage plant biodiversity, according to a new study in Science. The study confirms what ecologists have theorized for decades -- that areas connected by land corridors "retain more native species than do isolated patches, that this difference increases over time, and that corrido ... |
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| Topics: news, South Carolina, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Something Fishy: Manatee migration
Florida manatee found in waters off Cape Cod |
Sarah van Schagen |
31 Aug 2006 |
Gristmill |
| Ahoy me hearties! 'Tis I, back again from the briny deep. Me spyglass has been focused lately on Florida's favorite aquatic mammal: Shamu the manatee. Seems at least one of the slow-moving 'sea cows,' which usually make their home off the Florida coast, has traveled all the way up to Cape Cod. Another manatee (or perhaps the same one) was spotted in the Hudson River two weeks ago. Says one wildlife biologist, 'It's, to our knowledge, the northernmost sighting of ... |
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| Topics: oceans, wildlife (all these topics) |
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An Eden Break
Birds return to Iraq marshes, but long-term recovery in doubt |
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30 Aug 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| An Eden Break Birds return to Iraq marshes, but long-term recovery in doubt Birds have begun to return to restored wetlands in southern Iraq, the famed marshes rumored to have been the location of the biblical Garden of Eden. In decades past, ornithologists recorded more than 250 bird species in the region, including the fun-to-say Iraq babbler and lesser white-fronted goose. In the 1980s and '90s, Saddam Hussein dra ... |
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| Topics: Iraq, news, water conflicts, wildlife (all these topics) |
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The Beak Shall Inherit the Earth
Sixteen bird species saved from extinction |
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29 Aug 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| The Beak Shall Inherit the Earth Sixteen bird species saved from extinction Sixteen bird species that nearly went extinct in the mid-1990s were saved by international cooperation and concerted conservation efforts, according to a study published in the journal Oryx by researchers from BirdLife International. Scientists say the rebounds in populations of the Norfolk Island green parrot, the Mauriti ... |
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| Topics: environmental non-government organizations, news, wildlife (all these topics) |
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April Showers Bring April Flowers
Spring is springing earlier in Europe, study finds |
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28 Aug 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| April Showers Bring April Flowers Spring is springing earlier in Europe, study finds Across Europe, spring is arriving an average of six to eight days earlier than it did 30 years ago, according to new research published in the journal Global Change Biology. Scientists studied 125,000 sets of observations of 542 plant and 19 animal species in 21 European countries, and found that nearly 80 percent of all le ... |
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| Topics: climate, European Union, news, Spain, wildlife (all these topics) |
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The Definition of Insanity
Bush administration will open 8 million Alaskan acres to oil drilling |
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25 Aug 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| The Definition of Insanity Bush administration will open 8 million Alaskan acres to oil drilling As only makes sense following a disaster in northern Alaska involving oil spills and corroded pipelines, the Bush administration next month plans to open 8 million northwestern Alaska acres to oil and natural gas development. The area, in the National Petroleum Reserve, co ... |
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| Topics: Alaska, Bureau of Land Management, energy, news, oil, oil and gas drilling, wildlife (all these topics) |
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