New Study Finds Alarming Rise in Animals Used in Experiments
I've written previously about the fact that because of the lobbying efforts of the animal experimentation industry, at least 95 percent of all animals in U.S. laboratories -- mainly mice and rats --...
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Climate Change This Week: US Kabooming, Solar Winning, and More!
Today, the Earth got a little hotter, and a litte more crowded. @@ Climate Change, The Elevator Pitch: Climatologist Simon Donner @@ How To Combat Climate Denial: the Online Course where you can see...
View ArticleNo Using Drones for Salmon Spotting, Says Alaska Fish Board
Alaska is continuing to clamp down on the use of drones to aid in hunting and fishing. The Alaska Board of Game, which sets wildlife regulations, a year ago approved regulations blocking hunters from...
View ArticleHermosa Beach -- Remember When -- Beach Boys
Hermosa Beach, CA. The Beach Boys in the 1960s sang about "California Dreaming" at places like Hermosa Beach south of the Los Angeles Airport. The beach community attracted post World War II "baby...
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To Drill or Not to Drill, That Is the Question
The Obama Administration, Shell, and the Fate of the Arctic Ocean Cross-posted with TomDispatch.com Here’s a Jeopardy!-style question for you: “Eight different species of whales can be seen in these...
View ArticleBeyond Keystone
President Obama's veto this week of a Republican bill passed -- precisely so that he would veto it -- mandating the construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline does, indeed, as former New York mayor...
View ArticleGreen-Lighting the Oil Companies
From the Atlantic Coast to the Arctic, It's Drill, Baby, Drill If Sarah Palin were president, we'd know just what it was: a drill-baby-drill administration. Of course, there's no mama grizzly in the...
View ArticleWill the Year 2015 Bring Us Kinder Girl Scout Cookies?
If you're new to the issue of palm oil, it's a vegetable oil produced from the palm tree Elaeis guineensiswhich could inspire images of warm tropical beaches except when it's grown in the millions of...
View ArticleArctic Mirage
Some Alaskan Inupiat Eskimos contend that their community's future would be bleak if President Obama's proposal to designate most of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) as a wilderness becomes...
View ArticleFrom Famine to Feast in Forty Years: Policy Matters
In the mid-1970s, the outlook for food supplies around the world was grim. There were talks of "food triage"-- food-rich countries would decide which food-poor countries should get food, thereby...
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Confessions From a Flawed Animal Advocate
I got into a baby powder fight with my sister when I was 5 years old, furiously shaking the plastic bottles all over her pink carpeted bedroom. Two hours later, we found our beloved goldfish floating...
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Scientific Society Objects to Investigation of Its Anti-Science Members
The American Meteorological Society's executive director, Keith Seitter, has condemned a Congressional investigation of the potential corruption of scientific testimony on climate change by AMS...
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Small Quaker Group Takes Aim at Big Bank and Wins
Earth Quaker Action Team (EQAT) is not the kind of group you'd expect to break the resolve of the seventh largest U.S. bank, but that's what happened today when, after five years of our pressure, PNC...
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If You Need a Sense of History, Read a Map
I have always loved maps; maps unfolded at trail heads before hikes, maps spread out on the hoods of pickup trucks to plan the day's field work and maps used to plot road trips. They hold a promise of...
View ArticleCould Lesley Be the First School in Boston to Divest?
Posted on behalf of the student leaders of Fossil Fuel Lesley Something huge just happened quietly in the fight for climate justice here in Boston: a small college with heart, Lesley University, just...
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United Behind World Wildlife Day
Today, global citizens marked the second annual World Wildlife Day as the United Nations announced that the organized crime threat to wildlife species is on the rise. The work to combat these crimes is...
View ArticleSaola: Hunted, Trapped and Starved
The late fifth century B.C.E., Greek historian Ktesias spoke about a single-horned animal, monokeros, or unicorn. The Christians elaborated on this mythological animal, and made it like Christ: rare,...
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Safe Passages, or How Did the Grizzly Bear Cross the Road?
It all began with roadkill. Banff, the crown jewel of the Canadian national parks, is a paradox. Big, primeval wildness and all it embodies -- peaks, waterfalls, and glaciers -- surround the townsite,...
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So, What About the Topsoil?
The Dietary Guidelines Advisory Council has completed its recommendations to the federal government on what we Americans should be eating. Though the report consists of 571 pages, I think, for most...
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'Green News Report' -- March 3, 2015
The Green News Report is also available via... IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: A snowball's chance in the US Senate; Warm winter records shattered in the US West; Two big oil companies call for a price on...
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