by Sarah Laskow / The American Prospect The carcass of a passenger pigeon weighed in at exactly the size they preferred. Dead prairie chickens did, too. They aren’t so picky about the carcasses they bury: mammals will do as well as birds, […]
by Laura Petersen, E&E reporter The population of killer whales that resides primarily in Puget Sound doesn’t deserve Endangered Species Act protection, the conservative Pacific Legal Foundation says in a delisting petition filed today with the Obama administration.The petition sent to the […]
How to Bring the Major Oil Companies Ashore and Halt the Destruction of Our Oceans by Subhankar Banerjee When you go to the mountains, you go to the mountains. When it’s the desert, it’s the desert. When it’s the ocean, though, we […]
By ART HOVEY/Lincoln Journal Star The American burying beetle is a clever critter. It’s known for secreting fluid around the carcasses of birds and rodents in the Nebraska Sandhills to disguise their scent and then using the decaying remains as hatching sites […]
by the National Snow and Ice Data Center A new scientific study indicates the turn-of-the-century drought in the North American West was the worst of the last millennium—with major impacts to the carbon cycle and hints of even drier times ahead. The […]
by Global Justice Ecology Project BURLINGTON, Vt. July 30, 2012—Members of the Innu First Nation from Quebec and the Nulhegan Abenaki of Vermont were denied access to the 36th Conference of New England Governors and Eastern Canadian Premiers this morning. Around 9:30 […]
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by Jeff Biggers Ramping up renewed efforts to end mountaintop removal mining in central Appalachia, scores of protesters staged a daring action at the controversial Hobet strip mine today in Boone County, West Virginia, shutting down operations through a series of coordinated […]
By Jeff Barnard / The Associated Press A wandering Oregon wolf that has been out looking for love has gotten the cold shoulder from people in one Northern California county. Citing fears that if wolves move into the area they will attack […]