Posts Tagged ‘ecology’
By NunoXEI • May 20th, 2008 • Category: Blog
Treehugger–No Free Refills has been launched to highlight the fast-food industry’s major role in the deforestation of the Southern forests of the US. Their website states that: “Packaging symbolizes the disposable society we have become. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the fast food industry.”
By NunoXEI • May 19th, 2008 • Category: Blog
Caroline Davies, Guardian–The grey squirrel, the American cousin of Britain’s endangered red variety, is flying off the shelves faster than hunters can shoot them, with game butchers struggling to keep up with demand.
By NunoXEI • May 19th, 2008 • Category: Blog
Edward Helmore, Guardian–New research suggests the narwhal, the mysterious whale with a long spiral tusk, may be more at risk from climatic change due to the fact that it is so attuned to its environment, that it may be one of the least able of Arctic mammals to adapt to rapid warming in the high north.
By NunoXEI • May 18th, 2008 • Category: Blog
Graeme Stemp-Morlock, National Geographic–Poisonous chemicals that had been locked in ice for decades are now being released as climate change melts Antarctic glaciers. The chemicals, including the pesticide DDT, are seeping into the polar ecosystem and finding their way into wildlife populations.
By NunoXEI • May 18th, 2008 • Category: Blog
Joseph Romm, Climate Progress–The Department of Interior lists the polar bear as “threatened” because of its melting polar sea ice habitat, but then do nothing to actually protect that polar habitat from its primary threat, greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel combustion.
By NunoXEI • May 8th, 2008 • Category: Blog
Sophie Morris, The Independent–The UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, warned that water and food shortages would be the crises of 2008. Conflicts fuelled by water shortages may well be next, triggered by climate change, population growth and poor water management.
By NunoXEI • May 2nd, 2008 • Category: Blog
BBC News–A 9,550-year-old tree said to be the oldest on the planet has been found in Sweden. The new record contender, was found among a cluster of around 20 spruces believed to be more than 8,000 years old at an altitude of 910m (2,985ft) on Fulu Mountain.
By NunoXEI • May 2nd, 2008 • Category: Blog
Michael Kahn, Reuters–Wild Asian vultures could become extinct in 10 years unless officials stop the use of a livestock drug that has caused the birds to decline faster than the dodo, British and Indian scientists said on Wednesday.
By NunoXEI • May 2nd, 2008 • Category: Blog
Dustin Walker and Judith Lavoie, The Vancouver Sun–Jumbo cannibalistic squid and other unusual visitors are appearing more frequently in West Coast waters, while B.C.’s iconic salmon have suffered record-low numbers. One project is aimed at increasing the Department of Fisheries and Ocean’s understanding of the health of the oceans and the effects environmental changes are having on ocean conditions and fish populations.
By NunoXEI • May 2nd, 2008 • Category: Blog
News Staff, CTV.ca–Fingers are being pointed after hundreds of ducks were found dead or dying in a toxic tailings pond belonging to oilsands giant Syncrude Canada Ltd. This is the worst such incident in the history of northern Alberta’s oilsands.
