Category: Climate
Critterthink, the blog of the Center for Native Ecosystems in Denver, CO has posted a guide to the 2008 Farm Bill from a conservation perspective, highlighting what they call the good, the bad and the ugly. If you haven't had...
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Posted by Jeremy at 10:00 AM • 1 Comments •
Category: Animals
Ed has a great review of a recent paper in Nature presenting new research that describes just how extensive the damage done by the mountain pine beetle in British Columbia. The culprit of the outbreak is most likely climate change...
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Posted by Jeremy at 11:15 AM • 1 Comments •
Category: Climate
So Saturday was Earth Hour, and as if anyone reading this blog didn't know, lights were supposed to be cut off from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m. to send a message to mysterious world power that the world was ready...
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Posted by Jeremy at 1:56 PM • 10 Comments •
Category: Animals
A recent move to pay Guyana for not cutting down their rainforest.
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Posted by Jeremy at 10:57 AM • 1 Comments •
Category: Climate
This is the kind of crap I get in my email: I blog about ecology therefore I'm one of the morons that watches this sensationalized garbage and considers it a "teaching tool"....
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Posted by Jeremy at 1:15 PM • 6 Comments •
Category: Animals
An interesting study that improves on geographically-driven predictions of adaptations to climate change.
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Posted by Jeremy at 9:35 AM • 3 Comments •
Category: Climate
About a century and a half too late for John Franklin, I'm afraid. The fact that the sea ice is melting in and around the NW Passage is not news; scientists have been following that progression for many years now,...
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Posted by Jeremy at 5:42 AM • 2 Comments •
Category: Environment
Damn Decepticons and their emissions.
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Posted by Jeremy at 10:40 AM • 1 Comments •
Category: Academia
One of our geography profs, who is teaching a storm chasing class over the summer, was featured on Good Morning America this past Sunday: "I think it's important the general public begins to understand the concept of inquiry-based science education,...
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Posted by Jeremy at 7:58 AM • 0 Comments •
Category: Art
Art for art's sake? Hardly.
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Posted by Jeremy at 10:05 AM • 1 Comments •