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Yellowstone says it may need to import grizzlies to improve genetics

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

billingsgazette.com - By Brett French - Jan. 05 (News Report) - Yellowstone National Park has asked its fundraising partners to come up with $1 million a year for six years to expand its lake trout eradication effort at Yellowstone Lake, and by 2022 the park may need to import grizzly bears from other regions to increase the animals’ genetic diversity Read more: http://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/wyoming/yellowstone-says-it-may-need-to-import-grizzlies-to-improve/article_cab0939e-363e-56db-8a66-2dfeaa60ff77.html#ixzz1ic4jJBtC

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Rapid Melting of Arctic Sea Ice Possibly Explained

Tue, 28 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

rcinet.ca - Jun. 28 (News Report) - Arctic researchers have discovered a clue as to why sea ice in the North is melting so much faster than anyone thought it would. Scientists have long puzzled over why Arctic sea ice is retreating at up to three times the rate that climate models say it should.

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Tree rings record changing snowpack, research finds

Sat, 18 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Billings Gazette - By Brett French - Jun. 18 (News Report) - Greg Pederson sees the recent publication of his research on snowpack declines in the West as a prime opportunity to reiterate the difference between climate and weather in this record-setting wet spring. Pederson, an ecologist with the U.S. Geological Survey in Bozeman, was the lead author of a paper published last week in Science magazine detailing the decline in snowpack observed by examining tree rings from the watersheds of the Columbia, Missouri and Colorado river basins dating back more than 800 years. His findings: Not only has snowpack declined compared to past climate fluctuations, but there's also been a "decoupling" of precipitation in the Colorado River basin and that of the Northern Rockies.

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USB Warfare: The Real Electronic Nightmare

Wed, 22 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Miller-McCune - By Michael Scott Moore - Sep. 22 (Special Report) - But there are other ways to wage electronic war, and they tend to be more terrifying precisely because they’re tougher to fight.

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Could This Be A Crime?

Thu, 26 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

climatestorytellers.org - By Subhankar Banerjee - Aug. 26 (Special Report) - Last month the U.S. Senate finally put an end to the climate bill. Since then several opinion pieces have been published, including articles in Yale Environment 360, Grist, TomDispatch, The Nation, and The Hill. Some of these point out why the U.S. climate movement failed, while others call for a new movement. Global warming is a crisis: for all lands, for all oceans, for all rivers, for all forests, for all humans, for all birds, for all mammals, for all little creatures that we don’t see... for all life. We need stories and actions from every part of our earth. So far, global warming communications have primarily focused on scientific information. I strongly believe that to engage the public, we need all fields of the humanities. It is to this end that I founded ClimateStoryTellers. And there is much action: globally, 350.org and Climate Justice Movement; nationally, organizations such as Center for Biological Diversity; and state-based initiatives such as New Energy Economy in New Mexico. These groups give us hope that a bold – not weak – climate movement will continue to move forward with renewed energy. Our task is to make the collective global voice louder and louder until ignoring such loud cacophony will not be an option by our governments. Global warming is not something we can solve with good behavior and healthy lifestyles. It will require major government action to control pollution–and–polluters and to start a low–carbon–society.

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Deaths indicative of expanding turtle population

Tue, 26 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800

beaumontenterprise.com - Jan. 26 (News Report) - Texas bays are home to more green sea turtles than anyone thought, and perhaps more than in close to a century. At least they were.

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Study spoiled by scarcity of 'porn virgins'

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800

montrealgazette.com - By Charlie Fidelman - Dec. 05 (News Report) - A Montreal researcher's study of the impact of pornography on men is making headlines around the world.

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Power lurks in Oregon forests ?

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

OregonLive.com - Jun. 26 (News Report) - Tucked into a sprawling, 1,200-page climate change bill before Congress today is a tiny paragraph that touches the federal forests covering a quarter of Oregon. It says these lands, that already give us trails to hike and clean water to drink, can provide renewable power for our toasters while helping to replace long gone lumbering jobs. .

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North America's Northernmost Lake Affected By Global Warming

Wed, 26 Sep 2007 09:46:21 -0700

ScienceDaily - Sep. 26 (News Report) - The speed and range of these transformations--unprecedented in the lake's last 8,000 years--suggest that climate change related to human activity could be at the source of this phenomenon. The researchers' conclusions are based on the analysis of a sediment core extracted in the center of Ward Hunt Lake in August 2003. This 18 centimeter long sediment core containing algae pigments and diatom remnants was used by the researchers as a biological archive in order to determine the diversity and abundance of aquatic life-forms in the lake over the last 8,450 years.

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Separatists are royally cheesed off

Sat, 14 Apr 2007 10:45:02 -0700

Canada.com - By Remi Nadeau - Apr. 14 (News Report) - Queen Elizabeth is not welcome at the 400th birthday bash of Quebec's capital city, separatists say. The British monarch's name was put forth by Ottawa for a list of potential guests to be invited to the celebrations next year. But Gerald Larose, president of a provincial sovereignty group, said her presence would be totally unacceptable. He called the queen a symbol of British colonialism and said Quebecers will not tolerate being taunted like that. "It's totally unpalatable for the British queen to bring her rich butt (over here) to celebrate the birth of the Quebec nation," Larose said yesterday. Mario Beaulieu of the nationalist Societe St. Jean Baptiste de Montreal, said Queen Elizabeth has no place among the festivities surrounding the founding of Quebec City. It's illogical to invite the British head of state to celebrate a milestone of New France, he said.

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