Archive for February, 2008

  • Squirrel Journey – Four Seasons in High Dev

    Watch this in full screen with the sound on. Squirrel Journey from Primo on

  • Airline in first biofuel flight

    Richard Branson once again at the forefront and everyone is pissed off saying what he's doing wrong, why it won't work, etc., etc. Last I heard he was dropping 3 billion of his own money into biofuels. It would probably be a good thing if people flew less, but what can we do to improve how we fly has to be asked. Better Branson then

  • No Room at the Top

    Climate change forces birds to live at higher and higher altitudes—until there’s nowhere to go ©Laure Neish/iStock.com By Eric Wagner January-March (Vol. 9, No. 1) Sekercioglu, C.H. et al. 2008. Climate change, elevational range shifts, and bird extinctions. Conservation Biology 22(1):140-150. Harris, G. and S.L. Pimm. 2008. Range size and extinction risk in forest birds. Conservation Biology 22(1):163-171. In Conservation Magazine's Journal

  • Just Under the Ice

    And maybe without everything warming up we wouldn't have the chance to do research in the Antartica and find all kinds of interesting things. Gigantism for the imagination of Jules

  • Wealthy Nations Should Take “Climate Justice” Seriously – FoE

    Internationally renowned environmental scientist Professor Norman Myers suggests through his research that displacement due to climate change is inevitable if nothing is done to slow global warming. Read more

  • Sometimes you really have to ask, “Can they be serious?”

      Tensions are running high. Environmental issue? Yes. Social issue? Yes. Financial issue? Yes. Bad idea? Duh. Who wouldn't want a chemical lab for testing some of the deadliest and most incurable diseases known to man just down the road from their homes - our homes? The apparent tide of "official" support for the proposed National Bio- and Agro- Defense Facility (NBAF) in Butner, NC is ebbing, in part through the Hurculean efforts of the folks at

  • A Response to the Great Green Land Grab

  • The great green land grab

    Fancy your own swath of rainforest or snow-capped peak? From Britain to Botswana, the Philippines to Patagonia, there is an explosion of individuals, charities, even billionaire financiers buying up vast areas of land in the name of protecting environments. But is private ownership the way to save them? John Vidal reports, Read the full article in the Guardian

  • An Intro to A Scientist Audits the Earth

  • Five Questions with Conservation Biologist Stuart Pimm

     Individual actions can reverse some global trends By Stuart Pimm I participate in the Great Backyard Bird Count and winter bird counting for Cornell’s Laboratory of Ornithology. Is this kind of information helpful in determining habitat availability, changes in habitat and biodiversity? Are there other “citizen science” opportunities to monitor animals and their habitats? More

  • Study of ocean life shows a “chaotic” balance of nature

    An eight-year study of ocean life shows a "chaotic" balance of nature, and Dutch scientists say this chaos makes it impossible to predict the rise and fall of wild species - anywhere, ever.  More here

  • Floating Garbage Patch ‘bigger than US’

    I heard in some towns in Germany they started charging people substantial amounts to haul away their garbage. People just started unpacking the items they bought with a lot of packing material right at the cash register. Manufactuers reacted quickly by reducing packing material for German businesses. Meanwhile, the Plastic Garbage Patch in the North Pacific Gyre continues to

  • The Sun is Growing Jobs

    In California the Green Energy Market is booming, and setting a course for us to recapture the solar market. And set an example for other states to follow. A profile in the NY

  • As we head into Super Tuesday

    Stuart Hurlbert Presidential Candidates 2008 and The Environment (PDF) presents information allowing comparisons among candidates as well as comparison of their records with those of the "Fantastic Fifteen", the 15 members of Congress who got the highest overall environmental scores in our 2006 analysis of environmental voting records. As in our earlier analyses, it is argued that strong environmental credentials belong only to politicians who work both to reduce per capita environmental impacts AND to lower population growth rates. Not too surprisingly, none of the current