Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Loving Our Oceans to Death
Seafood aficionados, such as me, are loving our oceans to death, and worse, most of us aren't even aware of this tragic fact.Posted on February 20, 2008 4:15 PM • 4 Comments
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GrrlScientist is an evolutionary biologist, ornithologist, aviculturist, birder and freelance science and nature writer. A native of the Pacific Northwest, she relocated from Seattle to NYC with her parrots after earning a BS in Microbiology (emphasis in Virology) and PhD in Zoology (Ornithology) from the University of Washington. In NYC, she was the Chapman Postdoctoral Fellow at the American Museum of Natural History for two years, pursuing part of her "dream" research project by reconstructing a molecular phylogeny of the parrots of the South Pacific islands. GrrlScientist has written a blog about science since 4 August 2004 (the early years are archived here) and was part of the original invited group of 14 "SciBlings" -- her only claim to fame. If you appreciate GrrlScientist's writing, please help her pay her living expenses by clicking on the Paypal button below and by voting for her to be the official blogger on a month long adventure in Antarctica. If you read an essay that you especially enjoyed, please nominate it for OpenLab2009.
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Pathogens Causing HoneyBee Deaths?
This viral+pathogen hypothesis is more credible than the cell phone hypothesis.Posted on April 26, 2007 1:30 PM • 1 Comments
Toxic Food
This is an article that you should read about our nation's food supply written by Eric Schlosser.Posted on December 11, 2006 11:59 AM • 1 Comments
Declining Pollinator Populations Spell Disaster for Agribusiness
it's more than just the birds and the bees ..Posted on October 30, 2006 8:59 AM • 5 Comments
French Bird Flu Frenzy
Is this the beginning of an international wild bird massacre, triggered by gross misinformation?Posted on March 7, 2006 10:04 AM • 1 Comments
Avian Influenza: A Story About Industrial Fowl Play?
A new report by GRAIN (PDF linked) shows that the poultry farming industry is smack-dab in the middle of this growing bird flu problem, NOT wild birds. So what should be done about this?Posted on March 6, 2006 11:59 AM • 8 Comments • 3 TrackBacks
Tsunamis and Mangroves: The Shrimp Connection
The aftermath of the Indonesian tsunami is beyond comprehension, causing us to ask, 'What could have been done to reduce this terrible loss of life?' Since tsunamis are rare in the Indian Ocean (the last significant one was in 1883) and because of the relative poverty of most nations in this region, it is understandable that a tsunami warning system does not exist for the Indian Ocean. Yet even in the absence of a tsunami warning system, the resulting deaths and damages could have been mitigated if one simple precaution had been observed; stop destroying mangrove forests. [Nominated for 2005 Koufax "Best Individual Post" Award].Posted on February 1, 2006 8:37 AM • 2 Comments
