NewsRack: irge304/Biodiversity

Cleanup of Mich. river oil spill will take months - Boston Globe: Latest

Tim Martin and John Flesher, Associated Press Writers — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 18:30:00 GMT

Cleanup of Mich. river oil spill will take months

Everglades on Unesco danger list - BBC: Front Page

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 18:30:00 GMT

A UN panel adds the Florida Everglades and Madagascar's tropical rainforest to a list of world heritage sites at risk.

Group sues over Wyoming-to-Oregon gas pipeline - SFGate: Business & Technology

By MEAD GRUVER, Associated Press Writer — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 18:30:00 GMT

Group sues over Wyoming-to-Oregon gas pipeline

Oil-gas backlog breaking loose with 145 leases issued in Wyoming - Star Tribune: Business

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 18:30:00 GMT

Colville National Forest unites environmentalists and loggers - Seattle Times: Opinion

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 18:30:00 GMT

Movement in Western oil-gas lease backlog in Wyo. - Seattle Times: Top stories

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 18:30:00 GMT

A more than 2-year-old backlog of federal oil and gas leases in Wyoming began breaking loose Friday as the U.S. Bureau of Land Management announced it finally will issue 145 leases sold in June 2008.

Group sues over Wyoming-to-Oregon gas pipeline - Seattle Times: Business & Technology

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 18:30:00 GMT

An environmental group that wants to block construction of a $3 billion gas pipeline from Wyoming to Oregon filed a lawsuit Friday, saying the pipeline will cut across pristine land and harm endangered fish.

On Our Radar: Oil Spill Larger Than China Admits - NY Times: Science

By JOHN COLLINS RUDOLF — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 18:30:00 GMT

An American oil spill consultant suggests the Chinese spill was larger than the government admits.

Michigan Oil Leak Halted; Cleanup To Take Months - NPR News

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 18:30:00 GMT

The Canadian company in charge of a ruptured oil pipeline in southern Michigan says a spill into the Kalamazoo River has been contained -- and the Environmental Protection Agency agrees the spill presents no real threat to Lake Michigan. But cleaning up the site may take many more months.

House approves oil spill legislation - LA Times: Top News

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 18:30:00 GMT

House approves oil spill legislation

Everglades, Madagascar rain forest on UNESCO list - Seattle Times: Business & Technology

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 18:30:00 GMT

The United Nations has added Florida's Everglades National Park and rain forests in Madagascar to its list of World Heritage sites in danger.

Bird sightings: California condor - Salt Lake Tribune

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 18:30:00 GMT

By Bill Fenimore Special to The Tribune Updated Jul 30, 2010 02:34PM MDT Gymnogyps californianus I just completed working on a project with Nova Productions Média, from Québec (www.humanima.com). Nova Productions is producing a documentary film series titled “Humanima” on three specific birds that occur in Utah: white-faced ibis, American white pelican and California condor. We filmed California condors A3 and 89 at Lava Point on the Kolob Plateau near Zion National Park in southwestern Utah. You could see the wing markers placed on the soaring condors, as th... ...

Wildlife rescue escalates along Mich. river oil spill; environmentalists worry about long-term - Star Tribune: Business

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 18:30:00 GMT

Logging suspended after spotted owls move closer - Seattle Times: Local

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:30:00 GMT

The U.S. Forest Service has suspended logging an experimental timber sale on the Willamette National Forest after finding a pair of northern spotted owls moved closer to the area.

Wildlife rescue escalates at Mich. river oil spill - Seattle Times: Top stories

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 18:30:00 GMT

Volunteers and government officers scrambled on Friday to save geese and other wildlife damaged by an oil spill in a southern Michigan river as the Canadian company that owns the ruptured pipeline said the crude had been contained.

A Lively Debate on Climate Change - NY Times: Science

By BY JOHN COLLINS RUDOLF — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:30:00 GMT

A Lively Debate on Climate Change

Carole Jahme goes ape at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe - Guardian: Environment

Carole Jahme — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:30:00 GMT

Agony aunt and 'humanzee' Carole Jahme prepares to take audiences on an evolutionary journey in her new show at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe I have devised a comic science show to mark the International Year of Biodiversity 2010 , Carole Jahme Is Bio-diverse! , which premieres at this year's Edinburgh Festival . I'm taking on the role of a monkey-human hybrid in a bid to help audiences get in touch with their inner apes and understand what makes us who we are. We proudly declared ourselves Homo sapiens , meaning "wise man", and defined mankind with the phrase, "Man the tool-maker". Then it was discovered that chimps also make and use tools to hunt for food. Unabashed, we instead crowed about what we presumed was our lineage's ...

Montana officials await test results in bear attack - Vail Colorado: Our World

Associated press newsroom@vaildaily.com Vail CO Colorado — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:30:00 GMT

COOKE CITY, Mont. - Wildlife officials expected DNA test results to confirm Friday that a captured grizzly bear and her three cubs were the animals that killed one camper and injured two others in a rampage that has set tourists in this Yellowstone National Park gateway community on edge. Fibers from a tent or sleeping bag were in the captured bears' droppings, and a tooth fragment found in a tent appears to match a chipped tooth on the 300- to 400-pound sow. But officials say they will decide the bears' fate only after the test results are in. "Everything points to it being the offending bear, but we are not going to do anything until we have DNA samples," said Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks spokesman Ron Aasheim. On Thursday, a ...

Galapagos: off the danger list, still in danger - New Scientist: Health

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:30:00 GMT

Galapagos: off the danger list, still in danger

'Ancient survivor' - BBC: Science

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 18:30:00 GMT

Experts find new colonies of prehistoric shrimp

Mammals decline in Chernobyl zone - BBC: Front Page

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:30:00 GMT

The largest wildlife census of its kind conducted in Chernobyl reveals evidence of mammals declining in the exclusion zone.

4th bear caught after deadly MT campground attack - Star Tribune: Latest

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:30:00 GMT

The last grizzly bear believed involved in the fatal mauling of a Michigan man at a campground near Yellowstone National Park has been captured, and Montana wildlife officials are awaiting DNA tests to confirm their suspicions.

4th bear caught after deadly MT campground attack - Seattle Times: Nation & World

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:30:00 GMT

Back in Touch With Her Inner Camper - NY Times: Science

By LESLIE KAUFMAN — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:30:00 GMT

Even as a boy scout's mother was struggling to keep warm, she could appreciate what she had been missing by staying in hotels.

Mont. officials await test results in bear attack - Boston Globe: Latest

Matthew Brown, Associated Press Writer — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:30:00 GMT

Mont. officials await test results in bear attack