Gray whales cradle boats in a Baja sanctuary thought to be safe after plans for a salt plant dried up. Now activists see a threat resurfacing. SAN IGNACIO LAGOON, Mexico – The day was like any other and Francisco “Pachico” Mayoral was out fishing for black sea bass. Then the head of a whale […]
Month: March 2005
Estimates of greenhouse warming double
Since 1991, the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report has predicted a 1.5-4.5°C increase in average temperatures due to a doubling of CO2 levels. Now, new results from distributive computing projects suggest that the temperature increase could go as high as 11°C. Although the IPCC has been reluctant to embrace these estimates, some […]
Degree of sonar harm to marine mammals debated
Whales, porpoises seen acting strangely Scientists and whale-watchers in Haro Strait could hear the sonar long before they saw the USS Shoup. As the pings grew louder above and beneath the waves, sounds ricocheting off submerged land forms, onlookers saw a minke whale, Dall’s porpoises and killer whales behaving strangely. Whale expert David Bain said […]
Chain Saw Thins Flocks of Migrants on Gold Wings
CONTEPEC, Mexico, March 9 – Homero Aridjis, a poet and naturalist, can remember years when monarch butterflies filled the streets here in his hometown like a living torrent of orange and black and stayed all winter on the fir-covered mountain rising above the village. Not this year. The colony of butterflies that arrived here in […]
Marked for Death
Every butterfly that arrives in Mexico makes, for the first time, the journey from the United States or Canada. Should the brutal deforestation continue, one day they will arrive to patches of dust. For this reason it is imperative that the government declare a moratorium on the logging of oyamel trees in the Monarch Reserve […]
Marked for Death
Every butterfly that arrives in Mexico makes, for the first time, the journey from the United States or Canada. Should the brutal deforestation continue, one day they will arrive to patches of dust. For this reason it is imperative that the government declare a moratorium on the logging of oyamel trees in the Monarch Reserve […]
FLORIDA KEYS – Dolphins’ beaching closely followed sub’s exercises
The U.S. Navy is looking into whether the activities of a submarine using sonar off the Keys may have played a part in a massive dolphin stranding this week off Marathon. KEY WEST – The U.S. Navy is investigating whether sonar used in the training activities of a submarine off the Florida Keys this week […]
Biologists Fret As Mexico Butterfly Numbers Dive
A migrating Monarch butterfly sits atop a branch at the Sierra Chincua sanctuary at the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve, in the state of Michoacan, Mexico. Photo by HENRY ROMERO EL ROSARIO – A plunge in the number of monarch butterflies migrating from the United States and Canada to Mexican winter colonies has experts worried logging […]
SACRAMENTO— RFK’s son touts environmental message at Capitol
Kennedy to speak today before joint panel of Legislature Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a leading critic of the Bush administration’s environmental policies, is expected to tell Sacramento legislators today how federal changes in policies and laws could harm California. Kennedy is scheduled to speak this morning at a Legislature hearing by joint environmental committees dealing […]
Ag Ruling
NEW YORK (February 28, 2005) – A 2003 Bush administration farm pollution rule violates the Clean Water Act by allowing large-scale livestock farms to apply manure to land without federal or state oversight or public input, the U.S. Court of Appeals in New York ruled today. The ruling in Waterkeeper Alliance v. EPA was the […]