We are still at it here in Bonnaroo land, signing people up for pledging 10% carbon reductions by the 2009 Festival. We have another 500 sign ups today with still 5 more hours (1AM) of getting people to do the “carbon shred”. We are into catching video-interviews with folks here at the Festival who are really walking the walk.
The Ministry of Environment confirms that a late-morning aircraft accident on Friday has occurred in the northwest area of the province.
Try pitching this one to the board of directors: Let’s invest billions in a capital-hungry power plant, in a risky construction environment. If all goes well, we’ll earn single-digit returns.
VANCOUVER – Pesticides in B.C.’s rivers may be partly to blame for
declining salmon stocks because the chemicals are screwing up the
fish’s delicate sense of smell, according to a new study by…
The masochists among you can read the grisly details at http://www.eao.gov.bc.ca/projects/port_mann1/index.html
Which simply demonstrates that BC does not have an Environmental Assessment process worthy of the name.
The decision was always a foregone conclusion. There has yet to be a single EA in BC that has stopped a project. And when the government is judge and jury [...]
Some journalists compared the Toyota Prius Hybrid to the Jeep Patriot and got surprising results, but we think their comparison is flawed.Find out why. A new episode of TreeHugger Radio goes inside Tesla Motors, makers of the super electric car. Green product labeling: Is it valid and does it matter?
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Young martial artists take flight, China’s “quake lake” drains with epic force, thousands of protestors light up the night, and more. |
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Soaring prices for dairy products are creating an export boom for farmers, but their neighbors are finding that staples like milk are quickly becoming luxury items. Part of Global Food Crisis: A Special News Series. |
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This weedy sea dragon at the Georgia Aquarium has something to celebrate this Father’s Day. The rare creature is the third of its kind to become pregnant in captivity in the United States, according to aquarium officials. But don’t look for the expectant mom—dads carry the eggs in this family.The aquarium’s sea dragon has about 70 fertilized eggs—which look like small red grapes—attached to his tail. He is expected to give birth in July, said Kerry Gladish, a biologist at the aquarium.Sea dragons, seahorses and pipefish (see photo)are the only species where the male carries the eggs, Gladish said. Sea dragon pregnancies in captivity are rare because researchers don’t know what gets them in the mood to mate.The aquarium recently changed the lighting and thinned out the plants in the sea dragons’ tank to give them room to court each other.The aquarium has seven of the 18-inch (45-centimeter) sea dragons, which resemble Dr. Seuss characters, with long aardvark-like snouts, colorful sea horse bodies and multiple paddle-like fins.During mating, the female lays dozens of eggs and then transfers them to the male’s tail.In the wild, the survival rate for sea dragon babies is low, but in captivity it’s about 60 percent, Gladish said. The fish is on the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s list of threatened species, mostly because of pollution and population growth in its native Australia.—Associated Press, Atlanta, GeorgiaCopyright 2008 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. |
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The 40,000-acre (16,000-hectare) blaze spans three counties and is burning through highly flammable peatland inside a wildlife refuge, experts say. |
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