• IUCN Red List Categories for Mangrove Species

    Updated: 2010-04-30 09:02:11
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  • Natural England publishes wind farm planning guidance

    Updated: 2010-04-30 08:58:05
    Mar 17 Natural England publishes wind farm planning guidance Human impacts News Science Wind turbines Add comments Natural England a recently-established statutory consultee” charged with advising the UK government on projects that may affect wildlife or the English countryside experience , has published a document that outlines its approach to providing guidance on wind farm siting . The guidance considers both established parks and other unprotected wild lands and geo-diversity sites , as well as areas of deep peat , and areas of hightened bird sensitivity . It also mentions previously-mapped areas of the greatest tranquility though it is not clear just how much weight each of these various designations will carry as it balances the many factors that go into its . recommendations Read

  • American Society for Acoustic Ecology Symposium and Retreat, July 9—11, 2010

    Updated: 2010-04-30 03:15:01
    The ASAE’s first retreat will be held July 9-11, 2010, hosted by the Midwest Society for Acoustic Ecology and the World Listening Project in Chicago. This will be the first acoustic ecology conference held in Chicago, home to a thriving sonic arts community and center world for world-class architecture, located on the shore of largest [...]

  • Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico, Once Thought to be Managable, Now Poses a Serious Environmental Threat

    Updated: 2010-04-28 20:20:38
    An oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico that only last week appeared manageable is now poised to become a major, environmental disaster. Attempts to quickly stop the leak at it’s source — an exploratory wellhead 5,000 feet below the surface — have failed, and 1,000 barrels a day continue to spew into the warm [...]

  • Natural Capital Initative Recruiting Policy Interns

    Updated: 2010-04-28 16:00:16
    The Natural Capital Initiative has two volunteer opportunities to assist the Secretariat in the planning and running of its activities. Volunteers would need to commit a minimum of three days per week. Each placement would be for a minimum of two months full time equivalent and for a maximum of three months full time equivalent. [...]

  • Managing Climate Change: Five Innovative Solutions for NYC at the Museum of Modern Art

    Updated: 2010-04-27 07:50:21
    It doesn’t take much imagination to envision the challenges that the rising seas and intensified storms accompanying global climate change will present for coastal and island cities such as New York City. Not content to hunkering down behind giant flood walls, Barry Bergdoll, head of the Museum of Modern Art’s architecture and design department, wondered [...]

  • Eco-Roundup | 04.24.10

    Updated: 2010-04-25 07:10:20
    A Rising Tide of Global Climate Lawsuits? What’s a small, drowning country to do when the major industrialized nations refuse to mitigate their contributions to global climate change? Wired Magazine: In international law, there’s an established principle called transboundary harm, which means that if a Canadian factory belches toxic chemicals into a river, fouling a reservoir in [...]

  • Friday Insanity 2.33

    Updated: 2010-04-23 22:48:55

  • Friday Night at the Movies | “Gasland”

    Updated: 2010-04-23 18:39:35
    Following up on Tuesday’s post about the natural gas industry’s use of hydraulic fracturing and it’s impact on underground aquifers, this week’s Movie features a March 2010 interview with filmmaker Jason Fox about Gasland — his Sundance Film Festival award-winning documentary on the subject. As the interview makes clear, concerns over contamination of water supplies are [...]

  • 2010 Goldman Environmental Prize Winners Announced

    Updated: 2010-04-22 06:09:28
    The Goldman Environmental Foundation has awarded the 2010 Goldman Environmental Prize to a group of six emerging leaders for their efforts in addressing some of the most pressing environmental problems affecting local communities and the planet. This Year’s Winners Thuli Brilliance Makama, Swaziland Thuli Makama, Swaziland’s only public interest environmental attorney, won a landmark case to include [...]

  • The Role of Embodied Energy in Calculating Environmental Impact

    Updated: 2010-04-21 18:00:00
    Of the many positive, ecological developments to come about since the first Earth Day in 1970, one of the most encouraging is the holistic thinking that has emerged in the form of life-cycle assessments and the previously ignored costs of externalities. This new way of thinking represents an evolutionary shift in how we perceive the impact [...]

  • Planes, Volcanoes and CO2 Emissions

    Updated: 2010-04-20 17:39:27
    In case you were wondering… Source: informationisbeautiful.net

  • Friday Insanity 2.32

    Updated: 2010-04-16 20:11:37

  • Metaserver featured in HASTAC’s Grand Challenges and Global Innovations Conference

    Updated: 2010-04-11 15:57:21
    Still Water Senior Researchers John Bell and Craig Dietrich join Nicole Starosielski, Vanessa Vobis, and Jon Ippolito in the online presentation “Avoiding a Cultural Bottleneck: Networked, Distributed, and Agile Collaborations” as part of the HASTAC 2010: Grand Challenges and Global Innovations Conference. The projects presented include the Metaserver and other projects of Forging the Future. HASTAC [...]

  • Some nice wildlife photos

    Updated: 2010-04-11 15:57:18
    Photographs, get your photographs.

  • Friday Insanity 2.31

    Updated: 2010-04-11 15:57:15

  • In Ontario of the night

    Updated: 2010-04-11 15:57:14
    There’s a tiger that’s been prowling Hamilton, Ontario for a few weeks now. Some immortal hand or eye (okay it was a camera) finally captured its fearful symmetry.

  • As Many As There Otter Be?

    Updated: 2010-04-11 15:57:13
    River otters have made a comeback in West Virginia and might be rewarded with a place on the trapping list. Generally, I think I’m pretty good at not anthropomorphizing animals, but killing otters does seem a good deal like killing preschoolers. But I’ll harden my heart. (While I was researching this post, my girlfriend stumbled upon [...]

  • Friday Insanity 2.29

    Updated: 2010-04-11 15:57:12

  • EARTH DAY 2010

    Updated: 2010-04-11 15:56:22
    The 22nd of April will mark the 40th year of Earth day, some 14,600 days since thousands of college students and American citizens first rallied against the deterioration of our environment

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