News on Nature and the Environment

Japan Tuna Protest

2010-03-17T07:33:18Z

Filets of Atlantic bluefin tuna, including one at center which sells for 10,800 yen. (US$120), are displayed at a fish shop near Tsukiji Wholesale Market in Tokyo Thursday, March 11, 2010. Tuna brokers at Tokyo's largest fish market protested a proposed international trade ban on Atlantic bluefin tuna Thursday, saying it would unfairly hit Japan and its massive tuna market. (AP Photo/Junji Kurokawa)

Nevada research lab were checking on a primate room when they came across a ghastly sight: Thirty dead monkeys were essentially cooked alive after someone left the heater on. Two others were near death and had to be euthanized.</p><p>At a lab run by the same company, a monkey died last year after it was sent ...

Trade curbs upheld on look-alike bobcat

2010-03-17T16:16:25Z

<div><p>The UN body regulating commerce in endangered wildlife on Wednesday slapped down a US plea to remove cross-border trade restrictions on a common bobcat.</p><p>Lynx rufus has never been threatened with extinction and today roams much of North America in numbers ranging from 1.4 to 2.6 million.</p><p>But the spotted, medium-sized cat clos...

More pet owners report injuries from skin products

2010-03-17T15:45:39Z

<div id="subtitle">After deadly reactions to flea and tick treatments, EPA sets new guidelines for pet products</div><div><p>Products intended to treat cats and dogs for fleas and ticks kill hundreds of pets each year and injure tens of thousands, the Environmental Protection Agency said Wednesday as it outlined plans to make the products safer.</p><p>The EP...

Biden to visit NC manufacturer of semiconductors

2010-03-17T15:15:28Z

<div id="subtitle">VP Joe Biden plans to visit NC-based lighting manufacturer Cree; firm rides efficiency boom</div><div><p>Vice President Joe Biden plans to visit a North Carolina maker of light-producing semiconductor chips that the Obama administration is offering as an example of the potential for job gro...

The quest for energy solutions

2010-03-17T11:46:02Z

<div id="subtitle">The essential role of private enterprise</div><div><p>After a great deal of hype and hope, the Copenhagen climate summit produced no more than a vague promise to continue to work together. The only real point of consensus was to agree to meet again in November in Mexico to continue the discussions. </p><p>Last month, we noted the lack of measurabl...

Live octopus? Goat kidneys? It's what's for dinner

2010-03-17T10:45:06Z

<div id="subtitle">Live octopus, insects, brains: Where some stomachs churn, food adventure clubs make a meal</div><div><p>Ben Raisher watches as the writhing Octopus on his plate has its tentacles clipped with giant shears, then squirms in amber sesame oil like a pile of bisected earthworms.</p><p>With a deft pinch of his chopsticks, the wriggling, still-alive limb is in his mouth and down his throat.</p><p>Raisher, 28, smiles. It's what brought h...

Editorial Roundup: Excerpts From Recent Editorials

2010-03-17T10:30:15Z

<div><p>Excerpts from recent editorials in newspapers in the United States and abroad:</p><p></p><p>March 15</p><p>Loveland (Colo.) Daily Reporter-Herald on why change in credit rules is a positive step:</p><p>There's a justice in overdraft protection fees: Those who are careless in their spending pay penalties...

In war devastated Angola, cheetahs are back

2010-03-17T09:45:18Z

<div id="subtitle">Conservation group says cheetahs are back after 30 years of war in devastated southern Angola</div><div><p>Scientists saw cheetahs in southern Angola for the first time in three decades since the now-ended civil war devastated the animal's habitat, a conservation group said Wednesday.</p><p>After a three day survey in the arid Iona district of Angola bordering UN summit in Mexico seeking a binding climate deal, the president of the Maldives said Wednesday.</p><p>A price tag needs to be put on "the extent to which we destroy the atmosphere, the extent to which we pollute the at...

Japan issues tuna challenge ahead of key debate

2010-03-17T08:16:28Z

<div><p>Japan threw down the gauntlet on Wednesday ahead of a key debate on bluefin tuna, saying that if the species were truly facing extinction its defenders should seek a ban on all fishing rather than just cross-border trade.</p><p>In an interview with AFP, top Japanese negotiator Masanori Miyahara took aim at those who will demand on Thursday a moratorium on in...

Santa Rosa Hotels, California - Presenting Finest Lodging Experience

2010-03-17T10:28:29Z

Santa Rosa, located in the watershed of Santa Rosa Creek is the largest city in California's Wine Country.This beautiful city is surrounded by three mountains including Hood Mountain, Taylor Mountain and Sonoma Mountain.Hence, Santa Rosa houses wonderful mountainous sightseeing.Besides, it also offers many tourist attractions such as enthralling w...

Govt ads banned over climate change claims

2010-03-17T03:16:01Z

<div><p>Advertising watchdog has banned two government adverts for overstating the threat from climate change, it said on Wednesday.</p><p>The adverts used nursery rhymes including "Jack and Jill" to highlight the impact of global warming, but the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) said they exaggerated the risk.</p><p>"Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pai...

Need for wood highlights US insect problems

2010-03-17T00:17:01Z

<div id="subtitle">Paper company's need for wood highlights problems with tree-destroying US gypsy moths</div><div><p>Months of heavy rains throughout the South are forcing International Paper Co. to look beyond its usual suppliers for wood for its central South Carolina mill and turn to places that are known to have tree-destro...

Farm Scene Gypsy Moth

2010-03-17T00:31:34Z

FILE - This 1999 file photo released by the Iowa Department of Natural Resources shows a gypsy moth caterpillar on a leaf. All or part of 20 states from Maine to Wisconsin to the northeastern corner of North Carolina are under gypsy moth quaran...

Bolivia summit to seek global climate change referendum

2010-03-16T20:17:43Z

<div><p>An alternative "people's conference" on climate change in the Bolivian city of Cochabamba in April will seek to advance an international global warming referendum, organizers said.</p><p>"The only thing that can save mankind from a (climate) tragedy is the exercise of global democracy," said Bolivia's United Nati...

British ads banned over climate change claims

2010-03-16T20:17:42Z

<div><p>Britain's advertising watchdog has banned two government adverts for overstating the threat from climate change, it said.</p><p>The adverts used nursery rhymes including "Jack and Jill" to highlight the impact of global warming, but the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) said they exaggerated the risk.</p&g...

Ads banned over climate change claims

2010-03-16T18:15:25Z

Jaguar Recovery

2010-03-16T17:33:55Z

FILE - In this picture made between August and September 2004, one of two jaguars is shown after it was photographed by a remote motion-sensing cameras in the borderlands south of Tucson, Ariz. Environmentalists want the federal government to set aside more than 53 million acres in New Mexico, Arizona, Califo...

Group: Set aside section of Southwest for jaguars

2010-03-16T17:30:55Z

<div id="subtitle">Group wants Southwest land more than half the size of Calif. listed as critical jaguar habitat</div><div><p>Environmentalists are asking the federal government to set aside an area of the Southwest more than half the size of California to help protect the endangered jaguar.</p><p>The area proposed as critical habitat by the