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• Frozen Fog & Other Winter Discoveries

  
  Chipper's Alley — Authority: 112
  As I walked in a winter wonderland of frozen fog today, I heard the unmistakable sound of geese honking above me – they sounded tired, and they sure are late at flying south.  So I sent them a prayer for safe journey and told them to come back in the fall.  They were beautiful. It was extremely cold this ...
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• U.S. says no to Arctic fishing

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  (Reporting by Yereth Rosen in Alaska) There is currently no commercial fishing conducted in U.S. Arctic waters, and now there won’t be: a formal ban on commercial seafood harvests in U.S. waters north of the Bering Strait went into effect on Thursday. Environmentalists and fishery managers applauded the move as a ...
  17 hours ago

• Sailing into an icy cauldron

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  Reuters employee Pauline Askin has sailed for the Antarctic  for a six -week expedition on the icy continent where she will help restore Mawson’s huts named after Australia’s most celebrated Antarctic explorer on Commonwealth Bay, the windiest place on earth. During the expedition, Pauline will report on ...
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• Walton Ford: A Naturalist Who Likes to “Salt the Wound”

  
  Lost In A Supermarket — Authority: 484
  It seems ludicrous to assume if one helplessly yelps into the nights sky, calling, seemingly desperate aches and moans of what one desires — labeling it in self realization terms “telling it to the universe” — that the universe will shout back. If so, what does that sound like? So, Tony Robbins, give it to me ...
  2 days ago

• Organising the Sungei Buloh Anniversary Walk with Google Forms

  
  Otterman speaks... — Authority: 115
  I’ve organised a guided walk at Sungei Buloh Wetlands Reserve close to the 6th of December annually since 1997 in celebration of the reserve’s anniversary (SBAW). To do this I recruit guides, decide on and arrange for specimens, plan transport for guides and participants, advertise and process registration and ...
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• After 25 years impact of Bhopal leak lingers

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  Controversy still surrounds one of the worlds worst industrial accidents 25 years after an estimated 8,000 people died in the immediate aftermath of a toxic gas leak in Bhopal, India. At around midnight on December 3, 1984, a leak at a Union Carbide plant of methyl isocyanate gas -- a chemical compound used ...
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• Winter Mushrooms

  
  Chipper's Alley — Authority: 112
  On my walk yesterday I came across a totally rotten felled tree trunk filled with these tiny mushrooms, which were sprouting from various crevices.  You can see just how small they are by comparing them with the pine needles nearby.  They were exquisite fairy mushrooms. The recent rains have brought out lots of ...
  4 days ago

• Comfortable conservation and global warming

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  -- John Kemp is a Reuters columnist. The views expressed are his own -- Energy efficiency will have to make the single most-important contribution if policymakers are serious about limiting greenhouse gas emissions and dampening growing demand for fossil fuels. Energy efficiency will not remove the need to invest ...
  1 week ago

• Studying Trees at the Morton Arboretum

  
  Birdfreak: The Bird Conservation Blog — Authority: 494
  In our new quest to become more well-rounded naturalists, Stacia and Birdfreak made a trip to Morton Arboretum located in Lisle, Illinois (southwest of Chicago). Here’s a recap of our first of what will most likely be many trips to this incredible place. Morton Arboretum is open every day of the year with ...
  1 week ago

• Could denying bedroom privileges save the planet?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  There will be a record number of side events at the United Nations-sponsored climate talks in Copenhagen next month, but one woman’s one-woman show could give the delegates, most of whom will be men, the incentive they really need to agree a new global warming treaty. In “ The Boycott “, Kathryn Blume plays ...
  1 week ago

• hessnatur Organic Apparel for Eco Threads Thursday

  
  Life within me — Authority: 140
  The genesis of hessnatur is both simple and unique. The time was 1976, before people who loved and respected nature were called environmentalists, before there was a green movement. Heinz Hess was a naturalist, a man who ardently believed that pure was better, organic was healthier, that man and nature should exist in ...
  2 weeks ago

• Study: Sea stars bulk up to beat the heat

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 641
  A new study finds that a species of sea star stays cool using a strategy never before seen in the animal kingdom. The sea stars soak up cold sea water into their bodies during high tide as buffer against potentially damaging temperatures brought about by direct sunlight at low tide.
  2 weeks ago

• Texas Wildscapes: Gardening for Wildlife

  
  Wildlife News — Authority: 118
  An updated and revised version of the book “ Texas Wildscapes: Gardening for Wildlife ” will be available through Texas A&M Press and fine booksellers everywhere beginning on November 14, 2009. Author Kelly Conrad Bender of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department’s (TPWD) Urban Wildlife Program worked with ...
  3 weeks ago

• Well-read Naturalist: Gathering Moss

  
  Born Again Bird Watcher — Authority: 118
  Robin Wall Kimmerer’s Gathering Moss , an award-winning collection of essays both personal and bryological, is this week’s featured book on The Well-read Naturalist .
  3 weeks ago

• Found Fossils, Dinosaurs and the History of Extinction

  
  History Blog — Authority: 121
  Though the term “fossil” – a derivation of the Latin word for “dug up” — was first used in 16th century France, the petrified impressions of centuries old flora and fauna — including some of what later come to be known as dinosaurs — have been known to man, though wholly misunderstood, since the dawn ...
  3 weeks ago

• Development of Industry’s lightest Tatami Mat

  
  Japan Technology Information — Authority: 134
  Tatami as being part of traditional Japanese culture is going through a though time partly due to shift to more western style of flooring such as rugs, carpets or even wood flooring ,and party due to ongoing difficulties with supply of rice straw, the main ingredient in making tatami. The supply issue has been created ...
  3 weeks ago

• Ants are friendly to some trees, but not others

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 641
  Tree-dwelling ants generally live in harmony with their arboreal hosts.
  4 weeks ago

• Fresh Air Fund + OneSight

  
  Spinning Lovely Days — Authority: 424
  Ive written about the wonderful Fresh Air Fund program here several times. Through it, inner-city children are given the experience of a lifetime with a trip to visit a volunteer host family from the suburbs or country, or a fun-filled and educational stay at one of the programs camps. This past summer ...
  4 weeks ago

• The North Carolina Arboretum ~ Wee Naturalists

  
  Kid Friendly Asheville — Authority: 429
  I found this great information on the Arboretums website . Join us for a wee-adventure at the Arboretum! Every lesson includes age-appropriate activities for ages 3 to 5 (2 year olds are also welcome) such as nature walks, garden exploration, stories, crafts and visits from our classroom animals. Cost: $6.00 ...
  4 weeks ago

• Mums favour their largest offspring, claims study on American coots

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 724
  Washington, Nov 1 (ANI): In American coots egg size matters when it comes to survival of the offspring, says a new study.The study was conducted over two breeding seasons on small wetlands in the prairie-parkland region south of Minnedosa, Manitoba, Canada.Researchers Wendy Reed and Mark Clark at North Dakota State ...
  4 weeks ago

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