You might think when you get out of the car at Marina Del Rey that “Nothing could possibly live in here.” The area is heavily developed, with a marina and pier built out into the water, thousands of boats tethered row after row, a whole series of public works buildings and restrooms along the shore, [...]

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Great - The endangered gray wolf is off the endangered species list - thanks Department of the Interior! The good news here is the the gray wolf population in the American Rockies has grown by leaps and bounds in the decade or so since scientists began the effort to reintroduce them to the continental United [...]

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The polar trifecta is complete - another big news story about yet another angle of the polar conservation push. I’m not sure who decided it, but I’d say that all these articles in the last few weeks are a clear sign that some group or another has decided that polar-hotspots are the buzz issue for 2008. I [...]

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 The polar bear may soon have to share the spotlight with another charismatic polar animal from the other side of the world - apparently, the King penguin is facing dire pressures from global warming as well. Scientists have tied increased water temperature in the Southern Ocean to a decrease in fish availability, and subsequently found a correlation between [...]

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Have you ever said something sarcastically, only to wake in the night and regret it?
I don’t mean to overestimate the readership of this blog, but I can’t help but feel guilty somehow to sign onto Yahoo.com this week to the Featured cover-story splashed across the front page:
 
“Find out how scientists plan to colonize the moon [...]

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An article a couple of years ago drew quite a bit of ridicule for detailing a proposal to create a cryogenic seed-base - that is, a stockpile of seeds kept in deep-freeze in secure facilities, preserved as a fail-safe in case of a global climatalogical catastrophe. Just to add a bit of James Bond quality [...]

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“Forty percent of people will say: ‘That’s nice. Why would it matter? We’re not eating them.”
Indeed, but according to Mireya Navarro and this Sunday’s New York Times, organic and pesticide-free flowers are the new “it” thing in environmentally-friendly agriculture. While I may not be terribly interested in flowers or horticulture, (I’m a megafauna kind [...]

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Does the Bush administration hate the polar bear?

Rumors abound that the inordinate delay in listing the polar bear as an endangered species may be coming straight from the White House, according to a story broken in an editorial last week on Salon.com. The polar bear, the theory goes, occupies some very prime real estate [...]

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