A new population of greater bamboo lemurs (Prolemur simus) has been discovered in Torotorofotsy marsh. The marsh is a Ramsar site located in Madagascar. I have been to the marsh about 3 or 4 times looking for some of Madagascar’s endemic ducks like the Madagascar pochard (Aythya innotata) and Meller’s duck (Anas melleri). [...]

I have some terrible news from the Atlantic coast. Two fishermen – Rayford Carr 50, and Anthony Hendrickson, 22 – were pulled from the ocean after the fishing vessel (F/V) Sea Breeze sank off the coast of New Jersey. However, Philip Ruhle, Sr., 58 is still missing. According to one report, the [...]

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Martin Schreibman’s urban aquaculture uses recirculating systems to make aquaculture possible in an urban setting by maximizing efficiency or by keeping as much energy within the system as possible. For example, the system captures and removes fish waste, and some of the waste is then used to grow edible vegetation in a type of [...]

Woodcock on a nest. Image by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. See more animal camouflage

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Apparently, another reason why we should be eating pigeons is, because they are eating us. — Photo source for attribution. The author or licensor of this image does not endorse my work or me and their image is protected under an attribution license.

Rats with wings is how many of us perceive pigeons. However, I agree with Alexis Madrigal that a pigeon can serve a greater utility on our dinner plates, and the birds are more accurately described as “waste-scavenging, protein-generating biomachine[s].” Pigeon is some good eating and I like the reasoning that: Really, all pigeons need [...]

House Minority Leader John A. Boehner (R-OH) says that, “We need to produce more American made energy.” The Republicans are illogically connecting the idea that drilling in ANWR will result in energy independence. Energy independence is synonymous to sustainability. Further relying on a nonrenewable resource does not manifest sustainability or a wise [...]

AIR POLLUTION: Beijing begins massive shutdown to curb pollution before Olympics ANTARCTIC MELTING: Ice adrift from warming scrapes Antarctic seabed bare, Ice shelf hanging by a thread, More icebergs scouring Antarctica’s seabed ARCTIC COOLING: Distant wildfires cause Arctic cooling ASSISTED COLONIZATION; ASSISTED MIGRATION: Should we relocate species threatened by climate change?, Move species threatened by warming, scientists advise, [...]