From Newsvine: Wayward dolphin dies in polluted New York canal NEW YORK — A wayward dolphin that meandered into a polluted urban canal, riveting onlookers as it splashed around in the filthy water and shook black gunk from its snout, died Friday evening, marine experts said. The deep-freeze weather hadn’t seemed to faze the dolphin […]
Revival in the Mist: Mountain Gorilla Population Booms in Africa E. Fudd
From Care2: Save the Tesla Wilderness From Becoming a Motorcycle Park! Sign Petition Here. The California state parks system is planning to turn 3,400 acres of ecologically sensitive and historically significant wilderness into a motorcycle park. So much for the parks systems working to protect and preserve the environment and wildlife! The site is the […]
RIGHT. ON. From Care2: Endangered Flower Wins Against Major Land Developer It’s hard to believe that anything could halt urban sprawl in Los Angeles County, but it looks like the job has been done — by a flower. The gravely endangered San Fernando Valley Spineflower, with help from environmental organizations and indigenous tribes, faced down […]
From Care2: First Nation Challenges Shell’s Proposed Tar Sands Expansion Shell Oil’s plans to expand the Jackpine tar sands strip mine near Alberta, Canada have come to a head today, as environmentalists from across North America stand united with the people of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation (ACFN) against Shell’s proposed expansion. The Jackpine expansion […]
to all those advocates of ‘local control’ – when you stop being hypocrites, we can talk…. E. Fudd From Mother Jones: States Aren’t Enforcing Their Own Oil and Gas Rules The biggest domestic oil and gas boom in a generation is going unpoliced by regulators in many states, according to a report released today by […]
Woo hoo – let’s hope it’s permanent! From Care2: Success! Super Trawler Banned From Australia’s Oceans E. Fudd
From Care2: 100 Rhinos Slaughtered In Less Than Two Months 100 rhinos have been killed in less than two months in South Africa’s Kruger National Park. AFP reports that this “surge” in rhino killings by poachers means that the number of the endangered animals killed this year could surpass the total of 381 killed last […]
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And Slade Gorton’s perennial lies and legal obstacles to stop it – now proven the BS that they were! Suck it, Skeletor – you were WRONG. Elwha: The largest dam removal in history hits one-year mark E. Fudd